DESCRIPTION:
Oldseed is the solo songwriting efforts of one craig bjerring. originally from canada, oldseed's extensive touring has dragged him all over the "affluent north". primarily playing europe due to the relative ease of travel and generally cooler people, oldseed currently makes a small town in germany his homebase. oldseed's first s/t record was released in 2004. he continues to hand stamp copies of this badboy and sells them off the stage. the second record; when you laugh the world laughs with you when you cry you cry alone, was released in 2005 with a little more industry fervour (read, craig paid money to a publicist to convince "important" people to listen to the record). the record charted and people said it was really great. that's nice. oldseed was then offered a job as a social worker in the small german town where he lives. he released a 10" vinyl only record; simple tales of morality in 2007. he quit his job to go back to full time touring in 2008. second 10" vinyl only record; the terror released sept. 2009. toured all over europe (sweden, denmark, finland, estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, germany, holland, belgium, france, spain, italy, switzerland, austria, serbia, croatia, czech rep., slovenia, macedonia, kosovo, bulgaria, hungary, greece, turkey) oldseed to release third 10" vinyl only record; the reveal nov. 2010. touring plans to go on as usual. all recordings are also available for download from http://www.tunecore.com/music/oldseed User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

Coming Soon - The Terror

OLDSEED IS GOING TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE MUSIC WORLD!!!!
...just kidding...


 
in indigenous traditions the world over, there has been a balance between sedentary and nomadic tribes. as the nomadic tribes would travel from region to region, they would inevitably end up staying on the land of their sedentary counterparts. during these encounters, the sedentary tribes would often seek councel from members of these nomadic tribes. you see, when there is conflict within a sedentary group, resolution is difficult because all involved have a vested interest in the outcome (i.e. tied to the land). responding to various inquiries (what crop should i plant, who should my son/daughter marry etc.), the nomadic tribe would use storytelling and song to give a metaphorical element to their response thus leaving the decision up to the interpretation of the sedentary tribe. this is the origin of the travelling artist.


then came the technological revolution and everything got fucked up.


 
oldseed is the individual songwriting efforts of c. bjerring. playing in numerous other projects over the years, c. bjerring has focused on oldseed over the last 5 or so years. he is trying his best to return to the original purpose of the travelling artist.

http://www.myspace.com/oldseed