"Ian invited me to play on the
album after he heard The Bird Fancyer's Delight - a documentary I put together about
the use of birds as primordial domestic sound recorders, centuries before the
invention of the phonograph. A lot of the recorder fragments on the album are
based on eighteenth-century tunes, composed for birds to learn". You can check out Sarah's radio documentary here.
Ian Hodgson himself mentioned that the genesis of Today Bread came from him becoming "obsessed with pitching down birdsong and
making rhythms around it."