RED SQUARE is a pioneering free-improvising, avant-rock band, originally from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, that formed in 1974 and broke up in 1978, before reforming again in 2008 as a result of renewed interest in the band having been probably the first ever to take on the challenges of total free improvisation from a rock perspective.

Bridging the worlds of psychedelia, metal and avant-jazz and pre-dating the experimentation of Sonic Youth and Last Exit by a decade and The Thing by twenty five years, Red Square's railing aural assaults were once considered too extreme for commercial release.

Red Square revolves around the astonishingly original guitar playing of veteran sixties survivor, Ian Staples - tape and noise experimenter, action-painter, Grosvenor Square radical and wired denizen of the Middle Earth Club.

Not only does Staples’ iconoclastic sound palette encompass influences from delta blues and Hendrix through to Derek Bailey and Stockhausen, but a mongrel-blues strain of Trout Mask-inspired DNA courses virulently through every line he plays.

The Red Square line up is completed by Jon Seagroatt, (woodwind and electronics), member of the legendary psych-folk band Comus, and drummer Roger Telford.

Red Square continue to deliver free-form avant-metal through very big speakers with undiminished enthusiasm.

Red Square (1972-8), (2008 onwards)

First track from the eponymously titled B So glObal album, featuring Jon Seagroatt and Ian Staples.
The album is available for digital download from: http://bsoglobal.bandcamp.com. The physical album is available from: http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?seller=bsoglobal_omlovent.

Moilike from the B So glObal album 'B So glObal'

A track from the second B So glObal's album. This features me playing bass clarinet and, later in the track, the astonishing free drumming of Roger Telford. 'Moles' was an absolute mission to mix. It was recorded on an 8 track reel-to-reel, sync'ed to various sequencers and keyboards (MIDI and CV). I had to do numerous passes with a great wad of studio tracking sheets in one hand; mixing, pre-DAW, was a performance in its own right!
The physical album is available from: http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?seller=bsoglobal_omlovent

There's Nothing But Moles In The Deep Blue Sea from B So glObal's 'The World Is Covered In Windows'

Red Square (forward THE GREAT SQUARIONS!) - Jon Seagroatt, Ian Staples & Roger Telford - live at the Tinderbox Festival (www.myspace.com/tinderboxfestival) (www.myspace.com/redsquarealbum)

Red Square live at the 2011 Tinderbox Festival

Title track from the album of the same name, released in 1995. Omlo Vent was (is?) myself and Ian Staples playing with lots of old engines of electrical specification. Never really understood why it failed to chart.......

Mild Landing by Omlo Vent from the album 'Mild Landing'

Taken from the 'Tipping Point' CDr out on MIE.

Hold On To Your Lamp Post

A recording from 1974 that appears on the 2008 FMR 'retrospective' album 'Thirty Three'

Paramusic 3 (1974)

Shuttle Bag (2009)

A track from our 2010 album 'UnReason: live at the Vortex'.

Soap-Pump (2010)

Title track from our 2012 album 'Bird Haus'.

Bird Haus (2012)

Breakfast at timothy`s

Clear confusion 081112

Daidalos fashions one automaton and later, one labyrinth.

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

'When I was young I struggled to understand how a nation could fall under the spell of Nazism and commit unimaginable atrocities as a consequence. How did one person manage to upend the values of an entire nation? In my lifetime only one person has had such an effect on my own nation. I know the atrocities are not comparable, but nor is the aftermath. Germany has pretty convincingly agreed amongst itself that it stuffed up back there but we sadly remain, as the baton is passed from Major to Blair to Brown to Cameron and Clegg, Thatcher's Britain'. Miles Doubleday

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Red Square is a remarkable, pioneering British group that was originally formed in 1972, broke up in 1978, before re-forming in 2009 as a result of renewed interest in the band’s ground-breaking bridging of the worlds of psychedelia, metal and avant-jazz. 

Pre-dating Sonic Youth by seven years and the Thing by twenty five, Red Square’s railing aural assaults were once considered too extreme for commercial release. 

Jon Seagroatt, Ian Staples & Roger Telford continue to deliver free-form avant-metal through very big speakers.

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.

Shuttle Bag (2009)

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