“Perhaps no other sailor's chantey can compare with 'Seven Years at Sea’ for fame and historical interest. It is one of the most extensively traveled songs of European folk repertoires. Best known on the shores of Brittany and Poitou where it seems to have originated, It has spread across France and followed the seacoast into neighboring countries, north and south. It occurs in Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish and Swiss versions. Thackeray adapted it for a humorous rhyme called 'Little Bille’.” - from Our Singing Country by John and Alan Lomax The vocal track for “Sevens Years at Sea” (Sept Ans Sur Mer) is from “A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings” (Rounder Records 1500) and is now in the Public Domain. It was recorded by John and Alan Lomax in Louisiana in 1934, and is sung by Elita, Mary, and Ella - the Hoffpauir Sisters. from the album A SEQUENCE OF WAVES (twelve stories and a dream) Patrick Grant: guitar, bass, viola, piano, keyboards and percussion John Ferrari: drums, mallet instruments and percussion Nick Didkovsky: guitar solo on “Primary Blues" Dan Cooper: 7-string electric bass Lynn Bechtold: violin Dan Barrett: cello Recorded at John Kilgore Sound NYC, the NYU Film School, Peppergreen Media NYC, and the Ferrari Factory NJ Album mixing engineer and recording engineer for Kilgore sessions: Garry Rindfuss Recording engineer for NYU Film School sessions: Jocelyn Gonzales Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios NYC Mastered by Sheldon Steiger Produced by Patrick Grant Prepared piano samples on “Lucid Intervals” were created separately by David Borden (Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co.) and generously supplied for further manipulation here. The field samples and tuned sounds on “One Note Samba” were recorded for this project in New York City and in São Paulo, Brazil. All titles on this album are by Patrick Grant and published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP) except for “One Note Samba” by Antônio Carlos Jobim and published by Universal Music. Licensing for this recording is provided through the Harry Fox Agency. Guest soloist Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and band leader. Album photography: Bob Krasner Album graphics and layout: Eric Iverson Peppergreen Media logo: Steve Ball Thanks and acknowledgements: ASCAP, Gary Beeber, Composers Concordance, The Coney Island Film Festival, D’Addario Strings & Planet Waves, Electro-Harmonix NYC, O Festival Música Estranha, The Film School at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Robert Fripp, The (formerly known as) Guitar Circle of North America, Independent Music Promotions, Korg USA/Vox Amps, James Moore, James Gill (Mercy Sound), Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Tom Redmond, Som do Brasil on WKCR, Preston Stahly, Kathleen Supove, Tribeca New Music, and Tiny Orchestral Moments (Seattle) ℗ and © Peppergreen Media, 2017. All Rights Reserved. www.peppergreenmedia.com