Nightports
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Nightports | |
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| Origin | West Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Electronic |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Labels | The Leaf Label |
| Associated acts | Matthew Bourne, Maxwell Hallett |
| Website | nightports |
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Nightports is a musical group based in Leeds, UK. They work in a collaborative style with a featured musician, who is recorded improvising before these sounds are processed and restructured into a new work.[1]
Music and career[edit]
Nightports is made up of Adam Martin and Mark Slater. On their wesbite the duo's manifesto states that "Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. But these sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, reworked, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered. Nightports is about amplifying the characteristics of the musician and their sounds. It’s about finding new sounds that nobody else can make. The result is that each version of the project is different, cohering only through that single self-imposed limitation."[2][3]
Nightports signed to The Leaf Label in 2018 with the release of Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne. Pianist Matthew Bourne (also a Leaf Label artist) was first recorded at his home near Keighley, West Yorkshire in March 2015. Second and third sessions took place at Besbrode Pianos in Leeds in October 2015 and June 2016. Material from Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne was premiered on three pianos with live manipulations at Middleton Hall as part of the Hull City Of Culture programme.[4]
The record with Bourne was followed in June 2020 by Nightports w/ Betamax; a collaboration with drummer Maxwell Hallett (The Comet Is Coming, Soccer 96). The album was recorded in a single day in February 2018 at Malcolm Catto’s Quatermass Sound Lab studio in London. Slater explained that "all drum performances were spontaneous, intuitive and responsive" but were then "subjected to editing and manipulation to arrive at a sound that is neither purely improvised nor constructed.”[5] The Quietus called Nightports w/ Betamax "[an] endlessly satisfying album" and "a thought-provoking undertaking...made interesting by its wild-eyed invention".[6]
Nightports deviated from their ususal formula for their 2020 EP Wat Chedi Luang. Rather than basing the record on an improvising musician, Nightports recorded found sounds at a 14th Century temple in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand on December 22, 2021 and used these as the foundation for the EP.[7]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- 2018 - Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne (The Leaf Label)
- 2020 - Nightports w/ Betamax (The Leaf Label)
EPs[edit]
- 2020 - Wat Chedi Luang (The Leaf Label)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Nightports". The Leaf Label. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ↑ "Nightports". The Leaf Label. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ↑ "Manifesto". Nightports. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ↑ "Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne". The Leaf Label. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ↑ "Nightports w/ Betamax". The Leaf Label. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ↑ "Nightports w/ Betamax". The Quietus. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ↑ "WAT CHEDI LUANG". The Leaf Label. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
External links[edit]
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