‘Deathless’, is a vinyl album length collaboration between Jon Seagroatt, Ian Staples and Bobbie Watson. The project draws its sonic fingerprint from a signature mix of extended instrumental techniques, digitally processed reeds, slide guitars, electronics, iPad apps, sample manipulation, drones and disrupted song.

‘Deathless’ has a narrative and structural framework based on the legend of the Minotaur, as refracted through the prism of Steven Sherrill’s novel ’The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break’.
In Sherrill’s re-imagining of the myth, the Minotaur is not killed in the Labyrinth by Theseus, but escapes to wander the world as a mendicant immortal.
Setting his novel in the late twentieth century, Sherrill has the Minotaur living in a trailer park, and working as a short-order chef in a southern USA roadside diner.

The novel is a poetic meditation on ageing and memory, passion and redemption.


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Four tracks from 'Deathless' (2013)

In flight from Knossos (its teeming streets labyrinthine) the Minotaur sings a great lament.

The Minotaur, his heart racing, recognises the Labyrinth. Leans forward, clicks 'like'.

Daidalos fashions one automaton and later, one labyrinth.

opening; Asterion; Horns' Cradle (song with drones).

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.