Seth Glier

today the US Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis in America.Sharing a song I wrote a few years ago which is still hauntingly relevant today. please watch and share

Another Day In America:
By Seth Glier & Jon Vezner

His teacher says it's just a practice drill
In spite of that, it scares him still
So he tries his best
To disappear beneath his desk
If he can do it perfectly
He might not be another casualty
Like those other kids
If he can just stay hid

Is this now what we call civilized?
Becoming numb until we're desensitized?

[Chorus]
It's just another day in America
Another piece of innocence is lost
Just another day in America
Another line we can't gеt back across
But at what cost?

Maria dreams of light up shoes
With laces iridеscent blue
Sure to light the street
Like firecrackers on her feet
Her mother smiles, trying to mask her doubts
For fear her daughter might stand out
And god forbid
If she did

This is where her child was born and raised
Doesn't seem to matter much these days
All she can do is pray

[Chorus]
It's just another day in America
Another piece of innocence is lost
Just another day in America
Another line we can't get back across
At what cost?

So how am I supposed to love my brother
When we can't even see each other?

[Chorus]
It's just another day in America
Another piece of innocence is lost
Just another day in America
Another line we can't get back across
At what cost?

I'm excited to released "Everything," the final piece in my collaboration with the Buffalo String Collective. This was a show I will never forget and my hat goes off to David Cloyd for these incredible arrangements! I hope you enjoy them.

Buffalo Music Club

Find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7h7pSd4F-0

It was such a thrill to get to make music with the Buffalo String Collective Buffalo Music Club for a show last year at the 9th ward. I’m always hearing string parts when I’m writing songs and performing this new record with such accomplished players was a night I will not forget.

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCkCA_ua4k

Check out the live video for "It's Everything," the title track off my recently released album Everything.

Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/sethglier-everything

The earth speaks to us in a myriad of ways. Through ice cores. Through uplift and erosion. Through tree rings. Through geological formations. All of these are languages that we have the potential to restore our literacy in.

My new album Everything is out today. This album is a collection of eight songs inviting us to imagine a future in which humans and the planet are re-aligned into mutual restoration.

I wrote the title track, “It’s Everything,” after a meal I had with two friends who have been foraging wild rice from the Connecticut river from their kayaks. They prepared rice three ways and I, of course, foraged oyster mushrooms. We sat around the fire and ate our bounty and mostly talked about how long it took to collect, clean, and prepare the food. We could taste the place in our mouth. Each bit felt like an act of rebellion just as much as it was a reconnection with the land, with each other, and with everything around us.

The album is an acknowledgement of the sacred connections that exist between all living things and is an active questioning of what might be possible collectively. Everything is a reminder that the future is something we always have an influence over.

Check out the full music video for "It's Everything," here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSBjcil9WGc

And listen to the album: https://ffm.to/sethglier-everything

Some of the hardest things I’ve healed from are the things I didn’t know I remembered. My brain blocked something out in order to survive the experience. Oftentimes these memories come back to me in my writing and I discover a feeling for the first time. This can be quite alarming while at other times can feel like a guiding post in my creative process.

Hayley Reardon and I wrote "My Body Remembers" about how healing is transmitted. Here is our EMDR slow jam!

Listen to the single: https://ffm.to/sethglier-mybodyremembers

When it comes to healing, I believe humans should model our society to be more like a forest. Forests thrive and heal collectively. It is what Robin Wall Kimmerer called “the giving economy.” A tree does not hoard resources for itself, it shares nutrients with everything around it knowing that all we give will eventually come back. Like the trees, our bodies are vessels of history, story, and memory all interconnected.

I wrote “My Body Remembers” with my friend Hayley Reardon about how healing is transmitted and how nature can teach us to be better at healing our trauma. We wanted the percussion to feel like limbs creaking in the wind and have our voices twist around each other like mountain laurel.

Watch the full official music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VieggR_Wfms

And make sure to listen to the single here: https://ffm.to/sethglier-mybodyremembers

Mycorrhizal Fungi will connect to any plant root they come in contact with. This connection allows energy and nutrients to flow back through this web between plants and plant species, exchanging information with all that is around them.

It's the last Tom Wessels Wednesday!

Nature has figured this all out. We are a part of the family of life.

Wessels Wednesdays!

Foraging has quickly become one of my favorite pastimes. Each survival kit includes a package of Turkey Tail Tea that I have collected from the forest around my house. This medicinal mushroom is known to help fight cancers and is considered an anti-inflammatory. I consider it delicious.

Order your kit here: https://invasionmerch.com/collections/seth-glier

These lyric booklets are printed on wildseed paper, include original artwork by my wife, Sophie, & have been bound together by hand. Order your survival kit this week and we’ll get it shipped to you by Christmas!

Order here: https://invasionmerch.com/collections/seth-glier