The title of the CD is derived from the unique way he goes about creating his huge paintings: he starts by painting big circles and big squares and fills them all in as the muse hits. “I had 18 songs for the album, and at the very end, I decided to make it 16, since two of those songs didn’t add to the sequence that I was setting up,” he said. “It was really like a musical diary with what was happening in my own life.”
He listed the song “Far Away” as his personal favorite tune on the album. “That song is considered the single. I really enjoyed writing it and singing that one,” he said.
Throughout his career, Swirsky has penned hits such as “Tell It To My Heart” and “Prove Your Love” for Taylor Dayne, and he has written for such artists as Air Supply (“After All”), Olivia Newton-John (“Not Gonna Be The One”), Michael McDonald (“Tear It Up”) and Al Green (“Love Is A Beautiful Thing”). “Most of the songs I write on my own, and some I co-write,” he said. “I love writing melodies and songs that people can sing.”
Aside from his music, he is an expressionist painter and director of the documentary “Beatles Stories”; moreover, he is the bestselling author of the “Baseball Letters” trilogy. “I wrote three books on baseball and I am a clinical psychotherapist. I have a new book coming out next year, I have a painting show coming up in the fall, and I make music,” he said, with a sweet laugh. “I like to do a lot of different things, but everything is in the arts. I really enjoy the arts very much.”
To learn more about singer-songwriter Seth Swirsky, check out his official website.
