Artist description led by the wizard mind of Seth Faergolzia, dufus combines the sounds of today and yesterday to build the musical foundation for the future. sounds you will hear are made by a variety of intstruments working together toward newness...

Music Style weirdpunk Pro-AntiFolk electrochaos orchestra with a rowdy choir of apes and monkeys

Musical Influences birds, machines, humans, monkeys, sounds in places

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Artist History dufus was started in 1996, was formed into an artists' collective and has as of recently become a solidified band of 13 people. our recently released album, dufus 1:3:1, is the most clear depiction of the band's sound. this is available at www.cdbaby.com/dufus

Group Members seth faergolzia - acoustic guitar, vocals brent cole - drums anders griffen - drums lucas crane phd - sampler marko ospovat - bass spencer chaikedes - electric guitar rick snell - electric guitar, vocals babs soft - vocals amanda conklin - vocals there are many more, far too many to name here.

Instruments acoustic and electric guitars, sampler, bass, 2 sets of drums, choir

Albums 1997 dufus: our first born�(J-Bird Records), 1998 dufus: eee*lai*font�(Pro-Anti), 1999 dufus: revolution�(Opulence!/Priapus), 2000 Quankmeyer Faergoalzia: pip� (Anti-Pro), 2000 Fun Wearing Underwear (Pro-Amti) 2001, dufus: neuborns (Pro-Anti), 2002 dufus: 1:3:1��(Faer Awae Reckrds) COMPILATIONS 2000 Attack Records, Canada, 2000 Koala Records, NY, 2001 Organ Magazine, UK, 2002 Departure Records, UK, 2002 Olive Juice Records, NYC, 2002 Rough Trade Records, UK

Press Reviews "Individuality, revolution, and comfortable undergarments" Richard Gehr, The Village Voice "Fourteen members strong and phenomenal live." New Musical Express (NME), UK "Campfire singalongs for sensitive misfits." Richard Gehr - Villiage Voice, NYC "Things to look out for include Seth Faergolzia’s 'Celibacy Pants,' which shows fiber art going punk…" Roberta Smith, New York Times They’re making this wonderful, wonderful noise, pure song-making without the baggage of clich�s. How compelling, in these unromantic, unreal hollow days of packaged ‘extremes’ and punk rock boy bands. We need romantic, real-world dreamers like this. We need DUFUS. Organ Magazine, UK Seth has an inane ability to make the strangest vocal noises become hooks and choruses. Beauty out of chaos. Torpedo Magazine, Syracuse, NY, USA An extrodinary experimental rock puzzle. Neo Barbaric Zine Cartoonishly elastic and spastic vocals are the love-'em-or-hate-'em main attraction at this freakshow, but the double-take they demand also reveals whip-smart pop song writing, intricately clever wordplay, and a truly talented band as tight and precise as they are loose and stylistically wide-ranging. Brad Stark - KUSF/MTV� San Francisco Dufus are insane. Rocksound Magazine, UK “Like an encyclopedia of so-called outsider music condensed into a Downtown pagan mystery meeting. Dufus’s recent “1:3:1” is the most unironically anarchic album I’ve heard all year. As giddy and inventive (“Dufus”) as it is pissed-off (“More Girl Cops”), it’s the 21st –century equivalent of the Fugs at their finest.” —Richard Gehr, Village Voice “fourteen members strong and phenomenal.” —NME (uk) “like El Greco’s version of Jesus.” —Bernard Stollman, founder & president ESP-Disk “Musically, seth and dufus are on vague nodding terms with Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band & possibly au fait with the Mothers of Invention, but in a totally contemporary fashion. Seths vocals are somewhat reminiscent of Joseph Arthur in places…[they] light the music of dufus like a flaming torch…dufus are keeping it interesting when the general trend appears to be regression…dufus are the beating heart @ the very bottom of the NYC underground dont sleep on the subway.” —trakMARX “They’re making this wonderful, wonderful noise, pure songmaking without the clich�s…We need romantic, real-world dreamers like this. We need DUFUS.” —Organ Magazine (uk) “things to look out for include Seth Faergolzia’s ‘celibacy pants,’ which shows fiber art going punk…” —Roberta Smith, New York Times “Applauded by the Strokes & Moldy Peaches alike…if the Strokes are the daddies of their own retro velvet overgrounds, dufus is the Mother of Invention.” —Crud Magazine/2-4-7-music.com 1. dufus 2. jahflooey 3. more girl cops 4. heisman ball 5. donnah mattr/t mself 6. makng funna me 7. jocks carrying dildos 8. deepr n lov 9. makng go crazy/real 10. free dumb planet 11. littl bitta reggae 12. wooden ghost stuff 13. mothr yere 14. fire www.dufus.tv www.olivejuicemusic.com interview: www.antifolkonline.com Here is a list of everyone involved in the making of “1:3:1”: seth faergolzia, rick snell, babs soft, strictly beats (drums with moldy peaches), anders griffen (drums with jeff lewis), lucas crane phd, mark ospovat, jason conklin, amanda conklin, besty cohen, eyal talmudi, yuka yamamoto, crystal madrilejos (from baby skins), ryan abb, ubie the clown, jack dishel (of stipplicon and moldy peaches), spencer chaikedes, grahm dion, josh wexler, purple organ, joe driscoll, omar chowdhury, mary sloan, andrea nash, imani coppola (Columbia Records). Plus a list of about 35 high school students from the bristol hills experimental orchestra. DUFUSETH explains how the album, “1:3:1”, was recorded: “…the idea for one:three:one was given to me at rainbow gathering in Ocala, Florida, February 2002. I had been staring at a formation in the sky shaped like an equal sign. A meteor streaked through it, negating it and making a pro-anti symbol. As I walked away, I witnessed a tree with the hand shape, which eventually became the focus of much thought and went onto the album cover. Thousands of hours have been spent intensely cultivating this blissful lunatic…”

Additional Info older albums available here: http://olivejuicemusic.com

Location New York City, NY - USA

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