The Air Is Never Still, by Jon Seagroatt, Ian Staples

The Air Is Never Still

by Jon Seagroatt, Ian Staples

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1.	Bride Descending The Staircase 04:16	buy track
2.	The Air Is Never Still v2 01:35	buy track
3.	Louise In The Breeze 07:35	buy track
4.	Dr K 04:22	buy track
5.	Strapping Princess v1 03:56	buy track
6.	There's Nothing But Moles In The Deep Blue Sea 04:44	buy track
7.	The Air Is Never Still v1 03:52	buy track
8.	Eternal Dance 03:04	buy track
9.	Fraction 06:13	buy track
10.	Shirley Mumford Is Thirty Today 01:59	buy track
11.	Give My Brains To Mrs Love 06:23	buy track
12.	Strapping Princess v2 03:29	buy track

about

Jon Seagroatt and Ian Staples started working on this set of material after the release of their first B So glObal album in 1993. The electronica and ambient sound world of that album seemed too difficult to gig at the time, given the unwieldy equipment they’d need to haul around and the difficulties of sync’ing some of our pre-MIDI equipment reliably.

So a pared-down woodwind and bass guitar set seemed a nicely manageable option for live work. Bride Descending the Staircase, a track from the first B So glObal album, became part of this new ‘lean-instrumentation’ set. Two more of the tracks, Fraction & There’s Nothing But Moles (both much augmented), later became part of the 1996 B So glObal album, The World Is Covered in Windows.

They later added Red Square drummer, Roger Telford, to the equation, and named the resulting trio, Single Field. For live work Single Field was often expanded to a quartet by regularly co-opting Roger’s saxophonist son, Jake Telford, into the line-up.

These original duo versions of the pieces were recorded during two studio sessions in August 1994. In September 2019, Jon transferred the original two-track masters from DAT to DAW, and re-mixed them.

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released October 25, 2019

Jon Seagroatt - bass clarinet, soprano & tenor saxes.
Ian Staples - bass

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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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