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LIVE at Daytrotter Studios. Brandon James Seyferth with Matt Perich and Shawn Rios. 
Thanks to everyone who packed the house this past weekend to see Yuki Tasaka and I performing as Smoking Wires, playing with Wellthen in support of the touring Via Skies. All old friends. Thanks also to the Gallery Cabaret, 2020 N Oakley and Garret. Real pros. Yuki put together another short documentary of the evening. This was my first live and in person performance since before the pandemic. Thanks to all of you for making it a special experience.
Thanks for supporting Smoking Wires first live stream. It was a lot of fun for us to do. All music is original.
Having a personal connection to Mariupol... the once vibrant, now leveled city... now littered with the mass graves of executed nurses, children dead from dehydration, pregnant women dead from shelling. Anyway, having a personal connection to Mariupol has me writing to fundraise. I'm doing more, but that's part of it. I can't thank you enough for donating. It's helped. This song is about the folk hero Ghost of Kyiv. You can learn more about how to directly help people doing real work on the ground as this indiscriminate murder of Ukrainians continues via the button below. More songs on this topic are on my YouTube Channel and are free to use.  
This one's a work in progress- a song for a band called Smoking Wires. Anna Tsatsko Seyferth made the video. Yuki Tasaka collaborated. Audio from the room.
Screening at film festivals now! Music by myself and Yuki Tasaka, (Smoking Wires music). Film by James Freeman.

​Inspired by two kids running like hell along a fence in Chicago. Running with joy. That's me in the picture. Song by yours truly. Strings by Becca Wilcox and Jeremy Attanaseo. Photo by Eric Seyferth.
Improvising on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Life is good.

​My take on a Leonard Cohen song. Recorded shortly after I was proud to become a Padrino in San Luis Potosí. The picture in the video is from Frida Kahlo's house in Mexico City, the other was taken in ancient Teotihuacan.

A close friend of mine and an incredible artist, Lance Moon, died in a motorcycle crash. This song is in honor of him... or cathartic for me anyway. His dad asked me to take his seat in a car race after his death. The song is about the night of that race.

When we were kids, I learned how to drive a manual transmission from Lance. I couldn't help but think of him every time I let out the clutch and pinned my ears back to pass another colored flag, another car.

Yuki Tasaka and Matt Strange collaborated. Original pencil drawing by Lance Moon. Smoking Wires first single.

​This original song will appear in the new James Freeman film "The Grand Showroom" as a diegetic (in world) song as well as over the credit roll. If Hank Williams were an indie rocker, it might sound something like this. 
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​Just finished writing and recording original music for Jim Freeman's love letter film to Chicago. Here's a short clip from the score. Hope you enjoy. I enjoyed making it. Thanks to everyone who attended the premiere! Look for it in festivals soon.
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​Excited to be named in Sean Moeller's Daytrotter Picks. Read what he has to say in Paste Magazine and listen to the full session at Daytrotter or to two of the four tracks below. Matt Perich and Shawn Rios collaborated.
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New album out now on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and wherever music is sold or streamed.

Aurelio Damiani, Matt Perich, Christian Fields, Steve Hamilton, Andy Oberhausen, Joe Ketchum collaborated. Ryan Raz (cover photograph) Abigail Worthington (graphic design), Geoffrey Hymers, and Natalia appear in cover photograph.
It was fun to work with James Freeman on a video for one of the more esoteric Provinces tracks.

Restoration, the silent film scored by yours truly, is being screened in limited theaters and has already been selected by the International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles
Provinces live at comfort station. Part of CIMMfest in Chicago. 
Steel Bridge Festival in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. I was part of the first group of songwriters invited to this fest thanks to Pat MacDonald. After slotting in as an opener, I was called up to write a song with Jackson Browne in front of a huge crowd. The second time I took part in this fest, Victor DeLorenzo (the original drummer from the Violent Femmes) played on a recording of a song I co-wrote. I tried not to let on how many hours I'd spent listening to his music while playing video games with a friend of mine in high school. 

​Chicago, IL. I played the piano like I was angry with it in this recording of "Martha." Jay Bennett from Wilco said he dug the song though. That stuck to my ribs. The other thing that stuck to my ribs was how many people heard and shared it. We played it live passionately. We recorded it dispassionately. I had a hand injury here. Thank you so much for liking and sharing this song.

Geri X (named "Best of Indie" by Rolling Stone Magazine, Bulgaria) released a new album featuring a song I co-wrote with her called "Lovin' You Best." 
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Tracking A Long Way to Bakersfield
Video by Matt Kaminski. Behind the scenes at Steel Bridge Songfest with Eric McFadden. Song by Tim Severns and Brandon James Seyferth
Time wakes up like a shadow on my hand...
I remember hearing Portishead for the first time. I had fallen asleep on a couch in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A light murmur of girls in the corner emptied the night of loneliness. They were working on oil paintings at 2am. One of them had just put on this song as things got louder when two misfits carried a no parking sign up the stairs to the second floor apartment. The sign had been down already. They hadn't dug it up. I think all of us watched the sun rise from the roof that night.

​Years later, Mike Rhee, Marty Grossman and I would cover this song in a Chicago dive bar on a week night for just a few people, the bartender leaning on his elbows by our recorder.
Performing for some expats in Zhuzhou, China. The Hunan Province. Chinese Tennessee. I lived there for about a year and a half. Lily Szeto joins me on violin in a hotel room for an original song about a breakup I went through there with a Canadian girl with a musical name. Brian Beard shot the video.
A club called Stooges in Michigan. I used to love playing there... the whole club bobbing to the rhythm Brandon Triplett, John Weirauch, Jake Galas and I would make together.
There are a few tracks in this bandcamp archive that aren't included above

​Thanks for listening. 
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