When we last met amazing singer-songwriter Seth Swirsky, he dropped his new album Songs From The Green Couch, out now via via Lolipop Records. Seth’s multi-decade career leading his own bands as well as creating music for some of the best to ever do it in Rock and Pop, as well as the author of five books, documentary films (Beatles Stories SkyArts TV), has also led to beign a fine artist of note too. Natually the visual aspect of his musical output is also tight! Check out the video for “Sunny Day” right now!
Buy the album here: https://realseth.com/
Speaking on the new music video, Seth wrote:
“I wanted the video to express just the pure joy of being alive! Girls playing tambourines, kaleidoscopes, ballerinas and sunny beaches all to the music of three guys just rocking out.
I directed the video, which was shot last month in 16mm by Fred Joseph at Figment Sound Studios in Lake Hollywood, California in the same studio where the my new album, Songs From the Green Couch was recorded. I always loved those Jimi Hendrix videos, during the ‘Summer of Luv’ in 1967, where you saw the riffs Jimi and his band were playing. I wanted the video to get that same ‘live’ feeling. Accompanying me in the video is Glenn Brigman on bass and Brendan Peleo-Lazar on drums, both in the band The Triptides. They played on the recording of the song as well.
I would love my fans to have the video inspire them to just kick back, listen to their favorite music—loud!—and just enjoy LIFE, with no worries. As I wrote in the lyrics of the chorus: ‘Who cares about time and space, just as long as there’s sun on my face!!'”
Rob Campanella, of Brian Jonestown Massacre — who engineered the album— introduced me to two guys in The Triptides: bassist Glenn Brigman and drummer Brendan Peleo-Lazar. The three of us (me on most guitars, pianos and mellotrons) became the core of the entire record. I sang all vocals and arranged the live strings. L.A. musicians, Kirk Hellie and Fernando Perdomo contributed their talents on some songs as well. But, as I said, the core was myself and the Triptides, which added a certain ‘toughness’ to my natural pop sensibilities.
The record was a two year process: I started writing and recording the record at the beginning of a serious new relationship I was having — it continued during a very painful breakup. Thus, the album oscillates between many hi’s and lo’s for me personally, which are reflected in the lyrics.”
Seth Swirsky is a modern day Renaissance man. From the #1 songs he’s written for Taylor Dayne (“Tell it to My Heart”), Tina Turner, Celine Dion, Air Supply, Smokey Robinson, Michael McDonald, Olivia Newton-John, and others, to his 5 bestselling books on subjects ranging from baseball to self-help (21 Ways to a Happier Depression is his latest) — to his multi-award winning documentary Beatles Stories, which is currently showing on SkyArts TV in the U.K. to the gallery show of his abstract expressionist paintings in Santa Monica — Swirsky’s creativity and accomplishments, know no bounds.
In 2021, Sony Records in Japan released The Best of Seth Swirsky. He is featured in a 2-page article in Japan’s premiere rock magazine, Music Life, in their special “Beatles/Get Back” issue.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and holding a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, Swirsky is a native New Yorker now living in Los Angeles.
Songs From The Green Couch – tracklisting
- Sunny Day
- I Don’t Wanna Lose You
- Cashmere Sweaters
- Whatever Happened To…
- Dead
- Every Time
- Becky
- Making it Up As We Go Along
- I’m In a You Kind of Mood
- Rose Avenue
- Susie Sunshine
- What Was I Thinking?
- September Sunday
- New Painting
- American Bar