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Seth Ryan Barmash has been writing, producing, and performing music since the dawn of the digital age. Years of experience as a musician (Keyboards/Guitar/Bass/Drums) and education from both The University of Southern California and The Musician’s Institute has lead to a successful career in the music business. Seth has produced and engineered for both the Warner and Universal Music Groups with career highlights so far including work with Akon, TI, Xzibit, and remixes for Diddy, Janet Jackson, & Ne-Yo. As a music publisher Seth has placed many compositions in Film and TV including songs on Saturday Night Live & The XFiles 2. 

Cess Citizen has spent five years writing his thoughts, feelings, and conclusions. This is how CESS CITIZEN has come to be a recording artist: one who looks past the normal oppression and into the characters and themes that make up the turmoil. The impact of his recent release, ‘Falling In Style’ is a vivid illustration of how Cess’s writing process finds balance in a chaotic world – working in conjunction with instrument based music, each song’s message is received either quickly or later with a powerful realization. Continuity is heard throughout the album’s musicality and lyrical elements that hold true to the ongoing theme of the album, which is growth and responsibility. Focus on family, business, and social responsibilities is Cess’s way of navigating the known and unknown in order to curate balance. Cess considered cadence very much to successfully collaborate with the smooth, upbeat, slow, melodic, and ambient sounds that make up the track list; this further advocated the album’s purest essence to come to a balanced conclusion by exploring what is known and not known – thus experiencing the process of growth. With an array of verses, bridges, and choruses: Cess Citizen is able to take the listener on a brief growth journey that ends where the listener starts.