About this project
Hello friends, listeners, fans, and internet hooligans!
After almost 13 years and 10 full length recordings, Dufus is putting out our final album. Dufus has been hard at work recording and touring through Europe, the US and Asia and has performed with such acts as Animal Collective, the Yeahyeahyeahs, Of Montreal, Ween and the Akron/Family. We've also had such performers as Regina Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis, Adam Green and Kimya Dawson (Juno Soundtrack) in the band. That chapter is coming to a close with a 30 piece band show on September 25th in New York City.
This album's production includes Seth Faergolzia's voice and compositional wizardry, a horn section, two drummers, violin, a choir, bass, electric and acoustic guitars, toy piano, accordion, flute, and circuit bent noise instruments. It is our most grandiose and well plotted production. The content addresses a number of ideas including the importance of silence, long time friends, post-child breakups, love, schizophrenia, and profound dream stories.
As a final gift from the band to our fans all over the world, we have decided to complete this album and give it away as a free download or gift cd. It's mostly complete. It simply needs mixing, mastering and reproduction. That's where you come in... The more people who reserve a copy of this album, the better each copy will be. Perhaps we'll even be able to make vinyl.
To get a feel for the music, check out some of Dufus' earlier work and imagine the progression with this lavish instrumentation and 13 years experience in the studio and on stage.
The goal of this project is to put a copy of this album into your hands. The cool thing is that the more people who pledge money, the higher quality album we'll give you...
If we get 300 backers, the album will be really nice with handmade limited edition covers. If we get 600 backers we'll have the funds to not only to manufacture the covers but also to press vinyl copies of it.
Of course, more than 600 might mean a short farewell tour ;)
All those who pledge will also get behind the scenes access to information regarding the production of the album and the progress of the band leading into our final performance.
The album has many incredible tracks... rest assured, it will be a full length, full strength Dufus album, perhaps our best. The more pledges, the more tracks.... We'll be offering some of the out-takes as bonuses to those who pledge.
The money you pledge here on kickstarter will allow us to give this album its proper attention at a professional recording studio and to send copies all over the world.
For more information about the band, visit these websites:
Dufus Site
http://www.dufus.tv
Press Kit
http://www.sonicbids.com/dufus.epk
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/dufus
FAQ
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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When you pledge $100 or more you'll receive a 4G flash drive with over 15 albums of Dufus/Seth Faergolzia.
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When you pledge $750 or more you'll get one of two pairs of performance pants made and signed by the hands of Seth Faergolzia.
Project By
Connected as Seth Hebert-Faergolzia (2007 friends)
Seth Joseph Hebert-Faergolzia
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Composition, SUNY Purchase, 1998.
SKILLS
Highly proficient at voice, guitar, bass guitar, double bass. and Orchestration.
Knowledgable in Protools, Digital Performer, Reaper and Acid Pro.
Musical Coordination (directed large musical groups of up to 35 members).
Clothing Design, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Poetry and Fiction.
VISUAL ART EXHIBITIONS
Meddlesome Lab, Rochester, NY 2010-2012
Nobody’s Art Space, Buffalo, NY 2009
HANNA, Tokyo, Japan, 2005-Present
ABC, Ithaca, NY, 2006
Gallery TK, Northampton, MA, With Hanna Fushihara of Little Cakes NYC, 2005
ABC, Ithaca, NY 2005
See Spot Galery, Ithaca, NY 2003
DNA Gallery (Featured Artist in group show with works by Jean Michel
Basquiat, reviewed by New York Times), SOHO NYC, 2000
Various Public Artworks, New York City 1999-2003
Alt., New York, NY 1999
DESIGN / ART PROJECTS
Dufus: Eth, album cover artwork, 2010
Tape 2, Handmade book of Drawings w/Sound Sculpture, 2008
Collaborative music videos for Dufus, 2003-2007
Dufus: 131, album cover artwork, 2003
FASHION SHOWS
Purchase College, NY 2004
Mercury Lounge, New York City 2003
Knitting Factory, New York City 2001
TEACHING / WORK EXPERIENCE
Guest Lecturer, Finger Lakes Community College, Studio Composition 2009-2010
Guest Lecturer, Cortland City School, Music Composition, 2007-2009
Internship, REP Studio, Ithaca, NY 2006-Present.
Bristol Hills Music Camp, Composition/Improvisation, 1998- 2009
Artist’s Assistant for Donald Baechler, SOHO NYC, 2001-2003
Private Lessons, Guitar/Bass/Contrabass/Voice, 2003-Present
Freelance Composition Seminars, 2005-Present
COMPOSITIONS
23 Psaegz, Stream of Consciousness Puppet Rock Opera, 2005 - present
Dufus, Multiple recordings released internationally (see list below),
1997-2010
Chamber and Orchestral works 1998-present
Fun Wearing Underwear, Experimental Musical Theater (New York City), 1998 – 2001
MUSIC RELEASES
Eth, Kickstarter Funded, 2010
Channel Faergolzia, Self Released, 2010
In Monstrous Attitude, ROIR, New York, NY 2009
Faergolzia: Tape 2 (2 disc sound collage using analog cassettes), Self, 2008
King Astronaut, Self Released, 2008
Bristol Hills Music Camp Experimental Orchestra, Whprwhil Records, Seattle, 2007
Legend of Walnut, Self Released, 2007
Last Classed Blast, Ironman Records, Birmingham, UK, 2006
Ball of Design, ROIR (Reach Out International Records), New York, NY, 2004
Seth Faergolzia: Don't Call Me Hippie, Self Released, 2004
Dufus/Seth Faergolzia: This Fredum, Luvalot Records, 2003
1:3:1, ROIR, New York, NY, 2002
Neuborns, Ironman Records, Birmingham, UK, 2001
Quankmeyer Faergolzia: Pip, Self Released, 2000
Funderwear (from the Rock Opera, "Fun Wearing Underwear," Self Released, 2000
This Revolution, Opulence Records, Wilmington, NC, 1998
Eee-Lai-Font, Self Released, 1997
Our First Born, J-Bird Records, Connecticut, 1996
Cleveland Funk Tribe, Self Released 1995
PERFORMANCE + TOURING
UK Tour (England, Scotland), Autumn 2011
European Tour (Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria,
Liechtenstein, Austria), Spring 2011
European Tour (Greece, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland),
Spring 2010
European Tour (Croatia, Germany, Austria, Italy, France), Autumn 2009
US Tour, Autumn 2009
European Tour (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ireland, England,
Switzerland), 2009
Northeast US, Fall/Winter 2008
European Tour (Austria, Germany, England, Ireland), Summer 2008
European Tour (Germany, Czech, Austria, France, Italy, England,
Scotland), Autumn 2007
UK Tour (England, Scotland, Wales), Spring 2007
Northeast US Tour, Spring 2007
European Tour (England, Scotland, Germany, Holland), Autumn 2006
European Tour (England, Portugal, France, Germany), Spring 2006
Stomach illness (2003-2005)
European Tour (England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland), Autumn 2002
Warped Tour, US Northeast, Summer 2001
Japan Tour, Summer 2001
UK Tour (England, Scotland), Spring 2001
Fun Wearing Underwear, Musical Theatre, New York, NY, 1999-2000
RADIO/TV APPEARANCES
Bulgarian National Radio
WFMU Hoboken, NJ
WMBR Cambridge, MA
BSR Providence, RI
WVBR Ithaca, NY
KUSF San Francisco, CA
FM1 Vienna, Austria
FM4 Vienna, Austria
Radio 1, Berlin, Germany
BBC Radio 1 with John Peel and Herman-Dune, UK
BBC with Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis, UK
Fuji TV, Soullook, Japan
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
Sommerblut Festival, Cologne, Germany 2011
Morgenland Festival, Schaan, Liechtenstein 2011
Antifolk Festival, NYC 2010, 2009, 2007, 2003
Antifolk Festival, London, UK 2008, 2007
Antifolk Festival, Bristol, UK 2009
Greenwich Villiage Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany 2008
Soy Festival, Nantes, France 2008
Kuntsverg Festival, Mannheim, Germany 2005
PRESS
New York Times, Villiage Voice, New York Press, Relix, Tokion
Magazine, The Onion, Vice, NME UK, Organ UK, National Student
Newspaper UK, SPEX Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany
