Plays

The Third Policeman read by Patrick Magee

Tiesto & Ava Max - The Motto (Gravit-e D&B Remix)

Rework of @Snowpoet’s track.

Hear the original on their debut EP: https://soundcloud.com/snowpoet/sets/butterfly-ep

This rework was mastered in compliance with Turn Me Up! — read more at http://turnmeup.org

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Snowpoet – Alive With Closed Eyes (Jeevan Rai rework)

Remain

Three Compositions From 1971

http://www.playgroundmag.net/music/mixes/playground-mix-072-old-apparatus

Tracklist:

Miocene: "Tradition Is Just Another Word For The Collective Habit"
The Haxan Cloak: "The Fall"
Nite Jewel: "What Did He Say"
Holy Other: "Yr Love"
Wolf Man: "Eye Of The Demon"
The Bug (feat. Killa.P + Flow Dan): "Skeng"
Relocate: "Dot Dot Dash"
Jean-François Laporte: "Boule Qui Roule ..."
Tim Hecker: "Hatred Of Music I"
Vatican Shadow: "Whitewashed Compound Stealth Helicopter Crash"
Pye Corner Audio: "Electronic Rhythm Number Eighteen (retransferred By The Advisory Circle)"
Kuedo: "Salt Lake Cuts"
The Unthanks: "At First She Starts"

Old Apparatus - PlayGround Magazine Mix 072

Ulysses Ensemble + Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
for FKA twigs, kite splash and devotional footwork
2018

SLOW.BURN.FOOTWORK (L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France)

A beautiful original by my lovely Lee, long before she knew the likes of me.

Tacoma  by Lee Peterson

Recorded microphone contact by Michał Zygmunt at various locations across Świnoujście Port, Odra river in spring 2020

Cuma/Hawser

A couple of years ago, I got a bit fed up with the whole ‘24/7’ self-promotion / social media content-provider web presence fandango one was supposed to be engaged in as a musician, and decided to duck out for a while and pull together something more localised and time-manageable.

I had a set of material for which I had never really found a good home in other projects, and I decided to rejig these tunes a little to suit the following carefully limited specification;

 1   Suitable for a jazz-based four or five piece band with sax, guitar, keys, bass, drums.
 2   Approachable enough to attract a small, regular audience to an upstairs room in a Midlands market town boozer on a wet Wednesday evening.
3    Easily memorable tunes that could pass the ‘whistle test’ for an audience to pick up on.
4    Easily understandable structures for an audience (and the band!) to grasp (usually head, head, solos, head – the classic jazz formula).
5    Solo sections that move through key-changes to add a dash of high-wire thrillz for the soloists.

So nothing wildly ambitious. This was to be – to paraphrase the League of Gentlemen – a local band for local people.

I recorded a set of demos for the band consisting of sax, bass, keys & drum loops, scored the accompanying lead-sheets (tunes, chords, song structures), recruited a clutch of excellent musicians from around the region and set to work.

Anywaaay……

To cut a too long story very short, there actually didn’t seem to be any upstairs rooms in any Midlands market town boozers interested in a local band playing jazz-based material for local people on a wet Wednesday evening…..so, inevitably, the band folded.

The Beat Combo - Old Skool

Jon Seagroatt plays variously bass, flute, soprano & tenor saxes, bass clarinet, percussion, keyboards, electronics and the occasional bit of wobbly trombone with a variety of ensembles and groups that have included Comus, Current 93, Red Square, B So glObal & Circuit.
He also works as a session player, recording engineer and producer. In one or another of the above guises, Jon has toured, recorded and performed in Britain, Europe and the Far East.

The Beat Combo - Old Skool

Jon Seagroatt

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