This months new track come from NYC anti-folker and musical pioneer Dufus:
Seth Faergolzia planted the Dufus seed in 1996 when he was given access to a multitrack studio in New York. In 1997, Seth and Grahm Dion collaborated to make Eee*Lai*Font, and that Autumn, Dufus performed their first official show as a band. Since then, Dufus has been in continual flux, exploring every experimental and creative direction, utilizing musicians of a wide variety of backgrounds to build a solid reputation for fresh ideas while Seth offered compositions that stretched the music's boundaries to include all those involved. Over the past 11 years there have been at least 100 members.
The Dufus stage has historically been an open space for exploratory collaboration, often with no less than 15 revelers sharing the stage. Some of these collaborations have included names like Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches, Jeffrey Lewis, and Regina Spektor. Arrangements for special performances have included choir, orchestra, horn section, double quartet, and a noise ensemble. For the band's 10 year anniversary in 2007, Seth assembled a 30 piece band for a performance at SUNY Purchase, NY and his rock opera, "Fun Wearing Underwear," ran for more than 3 months in NYC.
In the year 2000, Seth began inviting "non-musicians" into the band. These "non-musicians" added choir, noise/circuit bending, live video projection/visual art/moving sculpture in a format reminiscent of a 60s "happening" or a Warhol Factory piece. Besides Dufus, Seth has been an active sculptor and painter, clothing designer, displaying work in various galleries (including a special mention in the New York Times for his work in a show featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat), an author of two novels and a father.
Seth and Dufus have recorded and released over 15 albums. In 2003, Dufus signed on with ROIR (Reach Out International Records). Their 3rd album with ROIR is called "In Monstrous Attitude" and features a three piece band comprised of Seth Faergolzia, Anders Griffen and Alex Coronado, mixed and mastered by Kramer, with a 12 page comic style book of artwork by Jeffrey Lewis, and was out in Europe February 23rd. Dufus are touring Europe during March for full dates visit
www.dufus.tv
“For those who like Frank Zappa but wish he had been weirder, Dufus plays frantic fever-dream folk slashed through with rock stabs.” The Onion
”Like an encyclopedia of so-called outsider music condensed into a Downtown pagan mystery meeting. As giddy and inventive as it is pissed off, it’s the 21st-century equivalent of the Fugs at their finest.” Richard Gehr - Village Voice, NYC
