What In the World?
Any kind of music in the world is grist for The Seething Brunswicks, the band that takes sounds from around the globe and whips them into a compelling new genre. The San Francisco Bay Area combo performs an intriguing blend of electronic and electric instrumental music, featuring vocals influenced by both Tuvan throat-singing and rhythm and blues. 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 vocalization, Mike "064" Freeman on guitar and electronics, Steve "Boom-Boom" Bauer on drums and Mark Wieder on bass.
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 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.
Available Recordings
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.
For booking information or to order a CD call 510-654-1904 or e-mail Oranj Productions at
"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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