One More Grain

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One More Grain
Origin London, England, UK
Genres Alternative rock
Experimental music
Spoken word
Drone music
Fusion (music)
Modal jazz
Years active2006–2008, 2014-present
LabelsVictory Garden
White Heat Records
Members Daniel Patrick Quinn
Andrew Blick
Merek Cooper
Robin Blick
Past membersDudu Froment
Gal Moore
Laurie Waller
Website Official Website

One More Grain is an experimental British rock band. The band is fronted by singer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Patrick Quinn.

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History

Born in Lancaster, England, Quinn studied Philosophy at university in London. After graduating, Quinn moved to Edinburgh, where he worked in the Scottish National Gallery and set up Suilven Recordings, an independent label releasing ambient music. Quinn lived in Scotland for around three years, culminating in the release of the record Ridin' the Stang, which was subsequently toured with a group of local musicians called The Rough Ensemble. [1] Stewart Lee featured Quinn's track "The Burryman" on his Topography of Chance CD.

Ridin' the Stang was critically acclaimed including in The Times, but Quinn returned to London, where he took up residence in a former pub, The Milton Arms, in the east of the city. [2] He began recruiting musicians for a new musical project, meeting Andrew Blick, a trumpeter, author and former session musician previously of the jazz/techno duo Blowpipe, a French stand-up bass player called DuDu Froment, and Israeli drummer Gal Moore. The quartet began to rehearse in the old pub's cellar and wrote material for an album.

The band reached an agreement with Victory Garden Records to release their album. During this period Froment and Moore were replaced by Merek Cooper and Laurie Waller (on bass and drums respectively). Their record Pigeon English (featuring the original band lineup) was released in April 2007, following which they were described in a review for The Sunday Times (1 April 2007) as "Great English talent". [3]

The band's second album, Isle of Grain , was released on White Heat Records on 28 January 2008 [4] and was gigged around the country at that time [5] [6] . The album predominantly featured the new line-up of the band, but with some tracks from earlier sessions featuring Froment and Moore. Andrew Blick's father Robin Blick also guested on clarinet and tenor saxophone. In a pre-release review in Plan B magazine, a reviewer questioned whether the band were "actually some elaborate practical joke". [7] The album was named Album of the Week by the Sunday Times and received airplay on BBC Radio 1.

The band went on hiatus in mid-2008, and Quinn taught English in Southeast Asia. A posthumous 7" single featuring a One More Grain version of the traditional English song "Scarborough Fair" was released via Static Caravan in 2008.

All the members of One More Grain also participated in Andrew Blick's parallel project Gyratory System, which continued following the breakup of One More Grain. [8]

In May 2014 it was announced that Quinn had moved to the Outer Hebrides and had resumed work with Blick on a third One More Grain album entitled Grain Fever. [9]

A compilation of rare and unreleased material was released in 2021. [10] and a fourth One More Grain studio album titled 'Beans On Toast With Pythagoras' was released in 2022 via Bandcamp [11] [12] , in addition to an Indonesian gamelan interpretation of previous One More Grain pieces [13] . [14]

In 2023 the band released One More Grain, followed by Modern Music [15] .

Group members

Previous group members

Additional or temporary live musicians

Discography

Albums

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Singles

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  4. ↑ "One More Grain: Isle of Grain". The Times. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
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  6. ↑ "One More Grain, JoJo's, London". The Independent. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  7. ↑ Plan B , Issue 29, p. 66
  8. ↑ "The Quietus | Reviews | Gyratory System". The Quietus .
  9. ↑ "Quinn's Java - the Music of Daniel Patrick Quinn". Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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