The Seething Brunswicks have enjoyed their association with its favorite new venue and neighbor, the Birdland Jazzista Social Club a.k.a. Birdland Jazz and BBQ and Multi Culti Grill, in Berkeley near the North Berkeley BART station. The Brunswicks have played three shows there so far and loved the arty, but down home ambience and enthusiastic audience. (The photos of the Seething Brunswicks playing live on this site were taken at Birdland by photographer extraordinaire Jennifer Low of Jennifer Low Photography.) Once open to the public, but now open only to members and friends of members, the venue is private, but not exclusive. If you would like to join the other Jazzistas and learn the secret handshake and penguin walk, email Birdman Mike at paparayno@gmail.com, 510.827.5414. You can also become a member at the door.
Plundering the wide world and our own ghettos and backroads, the Seething Brunswicks create innovative instrumental music that appeals to fans of retro instrumentals, jam bands, world music, psychedelic, funk and jazz fusion looking for something new and different. Guitarist 064 modestly describes the music as "psychedelic funk, fake ethnic and pseudo-jazz," revealing the band's irreverent approach to absorbing its influences.
Perhaps because any kind of music in the world is grist for The Seething Brunswicks, the band takes sounds from around the globe and whips them into a compelling new genre. The music is influenced by traditional and contemporary music from around the world. Beats and textures from jazz, rock, funk and electronica meld with the exotic sonorities of African, Indian and Middle Eastern music in the Brunswicks' original compositions. By eschewing lyrics the band keeps the listener focused on the lush musical textures and the duo's lucid guitar interplay.
The Seething Brunswicks features Neal Cronin on guitar and non-verbal vocalization, Mike "064" Freeman on guitar and electronics, Steve "Boom-Boom" Bauer on drums, Mark Wieder on bass, Bill Sparks on sax and Zachariah Veley on Keyboards.
Cronin's wide-ranging experience currently includes leading and fronting StepinLight, a world fusion band that performs modern, original compositions influenced my music from all over the world, as well as former trombonist for stage and symphonic bands and orchestras. Cronin also continues to perform world music as a solo artist, and with a variety of other players. He hosts World Beat parties at cafes and clubs throughout the Bay Area.
064 played with (the real) Process, a band that performed a heady mélange of rock, post-industrial funk, fake ethnic, experimental and improvised music. He also played guitar with the space jam band Neurohumors. He played guitar and composed for the post-punk band the Artichokes and created music and wrote for the political comedy group the Plutonium Players. He has recorded extensively, created several multi-media performance spectacles and performed in a variety of Bay Area rock clubs.
In addition to seething with the Brunswicks, bassist Mark Wieder also plays with Aleph Null and the Blues Daddies. Mark has studied with Robert Ashley, Vince Delgado and Anthony Braxton, and has played with more people than he can count without taking his shoes off. His tunes have been performed by the Golden Age Jazz Band and the La Pena Latin Jazz Experimental Ensemble.
In addition to brunswicking with the Seethers, Steve "Boom Boom" Bauer drums for the The Ethel Merman Experience (EMX), the band that backs up Broadway's greatest diva as she belts out rock's greatest hits from the Doors to Nirvana. EMX has rocked audiences at San Francisco's Castro, Folsom and Hairrison Street Fairs.
Sax player Bill "Mr. Sharks" Sparks was last heard in Bay Area clubs with the Farmers. Bill plays soprano, tenor and baritone, bringing both sophistication and a big, wild and often raunchy sound to the group.
Keyboardist Zachariah "Ziggity Z" Veley was previously with the Bay Area five piece funk band The Get Down, which was a Pabst Blue Ribbon's band of the week in the Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay issue.
Scroll down to Available Recordings to hear samples of our music. For booking information or to order a CD call 510-548-3853 or e-mail Oranj Productions at 
Three song mega-EP: The Travesty of Dignity. Features 064 and Neal Cronin on guitars, Cronin on vocals, Boom-Boom on drums and Mark Wieder on bass. Producer-guitarist 064 comments on the sound of the new release; "On our last CD we wanted to represent our live sound. With this one we did not limit ourselves to parts that we can play live. That gave us the opportunity to work with acoustic guitars, standup bass and keyboards in these recordings, expanding our sound into lusher sonorities."
Music for Your Secure Home, is available for sale as a CD or a download, and you can listen to free previews of every song at CD Baby. This recording features 064 and Neal Cronin on guitars, Steve "Boom-Boom" Bauer on drums and former member Steve Solomon on bass. (Since the recording session Mark Wieder replaced Solomon on bass.) Listen to "Soukoochie," a cut from the new CD:
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The Seething Brunswicks second EP-The Saga and Adventures of Spain and Nowhere is available for purchase on CD Baby and downloads are available at Itunes and several other music sites. You can also listen to and/or download a free* preview of a song from the CD here.
The Eight Saga MP3 download (56.6MB- recommended for download or streaming with fast connections)
The Eigth Saga Windows media file (1.3MB-suitable for streaming with dial up connections) Mac users: If your computer can not play Windows Media files click here to download a free version of Windows Media Player for Mac to play the songs.
Free* audio of a song from the CD:
"Entrenched" Windows Media File (870KB-suitable for streaming with dial up connections) Mac users: If your computer can not play Windows Media files click here to download a free version of Windows Media Player for Mac to play the songs.
"Entrenched" MP3 (4.3MB- recommended for download or streaming with fast connections) 
Improvised Music featuring the members of the Seething Brunswicks and others.
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