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Everybody Is Somebody Else Most Of The Time

by Jon Seagroatt & Ian Staples (working as Omlo Vent)

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Put Your Pull, Oberon 05:15
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Bo Rhap 06:06
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Anticrepuscular Ray 08:16
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The Ghosts of Hair Art 08:08
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Bird Spray 08:01
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Home of the Bee Gees' Dad 06:25
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Chatham Disenflaskment 09:20
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Further Details From Frederick Ure 08:12
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The Pearly Queen of Could Have Been 08:59
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Temporary Buffing Sock 04:40
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Numbering the Motes of Brickdust 05:36
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about

During the ‘90s, Ian Staples & I tended to produce work without giving much though to genres or labels. We crossed and crisscrossed them with merry disregard. However, that tended to make it difficult for people (including us) to pinpoint what it was that we actually did.
Throughout the decade we would assign material to one or another of our aliases (B So glObal, Omlo Vent, Miramar, Single Field, plus a small-scale duo thing where we would re-configure material from our larger outings for sax and bass), depending on ‘feel’. If you take a quick ‘channel-hopping’ tour of the links, you’ll get an idea of the variety of our ‘90s output.
We mainly gigged under the name B So glObal at that time. In retrospect, the gigs must have sometimes been something of a rollercoaster of consternation and bafflement for audiences as we handbrake-turned back and forth between the glistening ambience of B So glObal and the pile-driving, speed-minimalism of Miramar.

For much of the ‘90s we were signed to Chillum Records, an imprint of Plastic Head Distribution. They seemed to like our eclecticism, releasing albums by us under our B So glObal & Omlo Vent aliases, and planning releases by Single Field and Miramar. Unfortunately, due to difficulties within the label management, Chillum folded. We subsequently signed with Dutch label, Emergency Broadcast to release a 12” vinyl EP under the name ‘Miramar’.
After we had handed Chillum the master tape for the second B So glObal album, they immediately hustled back into the studio again, this time with the direction to experiment without limitations or preconceptions as to the outcome.

The 1995 album ‘Mild Landing’ (please see discography), by Omlo Vent was the result of those studio experiments, using unstably sync’ed drum machines and a slew of ageing keyboards that had frequently unpredictable output characteristics. The resulting improvisations were recorded to 8 track reel to reel tape or 2-track DAT.
The music was in part an extension of a long-standing interest we had in the sonic experiments of early albums by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. These influences were manifested in the eruptions of dark humour, the collapsing rhythms and the deceptively hesitant, but oddly affecting melodic lines that characterise the sound of ‘Mild Landing’. We were also keen to experiment with improv as a method of instant composition / subliminal structuring within electronica.

Chillum asked us to prepare a second Omlo Vent album, but the label folded before the second album’s planned release date. The recordings that we made in 1995 for that album are now available for the first time on ‘Everybody Is Somebody Else Most Of The Time’.

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released April 1, 2022

All noises, off and on; Jon Seagroatt & Ian Staples

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Jon Seagroatt & Ian Staples Banbury, UK

Jon is a current or former member of Comus, Current 93, Red Square & B So glObal and has toured and performed in Britain, Europe and the Far East.
He play variously soprano & tenor saxes, bass clarinet, flute, bass, keyboards, percussion and electronics.
Ian Staples is a former member of B So glObal and Red Square. He plays guitars, bass and electronics. ... more

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