Sonskrif - Patrick Luke Seaman
Musician / Producer2024: Produced a new 10-part radio series called Rave On, featuring spoken-word, sound collage & original Sonskrif compositions. Broadcast on Radio Alhara (Palestine) and repeated twice-weekly on Resonance FM (London).
2023: Produced new Sonskrif remixes for other artists: David Ness, Jonny Blunders, Mark Stewart, Sine and Xqui.
2022: Produced the 8-part radio series Radio On, layering spoken-word, music, film & TV samples with original Foley soundscapes for Somnambulist Internationale and broadcast on Resonance FM (London). The show also had an extended run on Tesla FM (Barcelona).
2021: Co-wrote & produced 81 Miles Via Hulme, debut solo album by UK Jazz trumpeter Kevin G Davy (Adam F, Cymande, Finley Quaye, Lamb, D'Ensemble presenter on Jazz Radio London), which received airplay on BBC Radio 3.
2017 - 2023: Worked with legendary post-punk auteur, the late Mark Stewart, on various projects: The Lost Tapes (On-U Sound, 2018), a re-imagining of Mark & the Mafia album Learning To Cope With Cowardice; The Pop Group's Y in Dub 40th Anniversary reissue (Mute, 2019); Mark Stewart & Sonskrif Obsolete Capitalism(Rizofera, 2020); Vodou, his AV contribution to The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions album (Glitterhouse, 2023); Destructors Club Meets Scientist with Lee Scratch Perry, Mark Stewart & Big Youth album (SGGlossolalia, 2024), and much more unreleased.
2017 - 2019: When This Heat reformed, touring as This Is Not This Heat, I was guitar-tech for Charles Bullen. In 2020 Sonskrif released Fire On Cold Nights with Charles Bullen & MC Quest, our contribution to Our Kitchen, a benefit album for Kent food-poverty charity of the same name.
2009 - 2016: Co-founded Official Burnt Toast with Adrian Lawrence (rapper / drums) & Abrar Hafiz (guitar / bass). Performed live & released our debut album Tubs 'n' Tongue-Fu (Sonskrif, 2015). "Delivering a lethal stream of conscious poetry over homegrown beats & boasting two live bass players, OBT effortlessly meld elements of lo-fi Hip Hop, Post Punk & Jazz" (Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6).
2012: Founded the independent Sonskrif label. Released 5-track EPs from both Quest and Skynthesizer, tracks by Akrasi, the Official Burnt Toast vinyl LP, Sonskrif ft. Madeeha Mubarak, and 5 releases working under the SVLA moniker.
2011 - 2013: Received personal mentoring from pioneering DnB producer Krust (Full Cycle) and assisted him with his Disruptive Patterns coaching and mentoring workshops.
2008 - 2011: Qualified with a City & Guilds in Youth Work, running music recording workshops in the local community for Wandsworth Borough Council at their Training & Resource Centre.
1997 - 2007: Relocated to London, transitioned into production & engineering. Formed Akrasi with singer Joyce Akrasi. We signed to German label Sellwell in 2000, released The Zero-1 EP (2001) & We Are In The Future (2005) album. We performed at our own JuJu night at The Africa Centre, Covent Garden, playing live alongside Jerry Dammers, Smith & Mighty, and in Munich, Paris, Amsterdam with LTJ Bukem, Conrad, Blame and label mates Funkstorung whilst presenting our Zero-K radio show on Resonance FM (London).
1989 - 1995: Founding member & front-man of indie-dub band The Sandmen. Appeared on Tony Wilson's The Other Side Of Midnight (Granada TV), the only unsigned Manchester band to do so. Toured with Inspiral Carpets & The Fall on UK tours, including Brixton Fridge, Clapham Grand, The Hacienda, Manchester Free Trade Hall, The Marquee. Self-released 3 EPs and recorded a BBC John Peel session in 1994.