Nightports announce new album with Tom Herbert and share first single

Nightports w/ Tom Herbert - released 29 April 2022

Nightports are back with the third in their series of collaborative albums - Nightports w/ Tom Herbert follows 2018’s Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne and 2020’s Nightports w/ Betamax. It sees musician-producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater team up with Tom Herbert, who made his name as the bass player in Mercury Music Prize-nominated bands Polar Bear and The Invisible, and has become an in-demand collaborator and session musician, including work with Adele, Lana Del Rey and most recently The Smile. Nightports and Tom Herbert ably demonstrate the versatility of the double bass. It’s an instrument that rarely gets the main focus in an ensemble, but one of the most striking aspects of the album is the emotional resonance in Herbert’s articulate melodic lines. That is certainly evident on ‘Arcs’, which is out now and accompanied by a video put together by Nightports, Tom and Leeds video makers GOODBOY! You can download the first single 'Arcs' here.

Video for 'Arcs'

artist: Nightports w/ Tom Herbert title: Nightports w/ Tom Herbert label: The Leaf Label formats: Limited edition black vinyl LP in die-cut sleeve (BAY 129V) Limited edition CD (BAY 129CD) Digital (BAY 129E) release date: Friday 29 April 2022 Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation. Nightports is about amplifying the characteristics of the musician – celebrating what’s particular about them, finding sounds that nobody else can make, constructing a complex sonic weave that, however radical the transformations, still bears the watermarks of its origin. You can read the full press release here. Nightports w/ Tom Herbert will be released on digital and limited edition CD and vinyl LP. As with the previous albums, the vinyl is packaged in an intricate die-cut sleeve, designed by Split. CD: LP: 1. A1. Hibernal 2. A2. Eye to Eye 3. A3. Defeat 4. A4. October 5. A5. Inhabit 6. B1. Arcs 7. B2. Lumin 8. B3. Hydrodynamica 9. B4. Vacancy 10. B5. Given

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