THE PORTABLE INFINITE: Patrick Wolf Shares Short Film: The Bowline Knot -The Night Safari EP Out Today

4/14/2023

Patrick Wolf Shares Short Film: The Bowline Knot -The Night Safari EP Out Today

Patrick Wolf Shares Short Film: 'The Bowline Knot'

Featuring 'The Night Safari' And 'Nowhere Game'

'The Night Safari' EP Out Today

April 14, 2023 - New York, NY: Revered singer, songwriter, composer and producer Patrick Wolf today releases the anticipated The Night Safari EP, his first full body of work in ten years.

The EP release has been unveiled alongside a monochromatic short-film 'The Bowline Knot,' directed by Joseph Wilson (PRETTYBIRD). The beautifully cinematic, melancholic video provides a visual space for previous singles 'The Night Safari' and 'Nowhere Game' (the visual of which was shared earlier this year and forms the second part of this short film) to exist in, tying the two tracks together through a pensive and brooding lens, full of vivid iconography and incredible costumery.

Wolf delves into the meaning behind 'The Bowline Knot' here:

"One of the uses of a bowline knot is a rescue knot to save people who may have fallen down a hole, or off a cliff onto a ledge, yet also it is used as a hunting knot, bowlines are used to create a loop that can easily be placed around an animal's neck. In the song "The Night Safari", "The Ocelot slips the bowline knot but soon falls to prey" and in this video the lead character departs the lethargy and claustrophobia of home past the matriarch hanging out the washing to dry in a lightning storm. Turning his back on "all the love in this world" to reel in a boat tied to the banks of the black river, embarking further down what will become the river acheron and soon to be entrapped by the nowhere game. My request to Joseph Wilson was to create a video that narrated the descent that occurs lyrically in the first 11 minutes of the EP. The meeting of Archangel Zadkiel at the top of the tower at the end of our short film is a challenge to begin the journey all over again like Sisyphus or continue, cut the string, disappear and begin working out how to enter the day"

Watch The Bowline Knot on YouTube:

Patrick Wolf is one of the most talented and idiosyncratic musicians of his generation, with a run of critically hailed albums, starting with Lycanthropy in 2003 to Lupercalia in 2010 which saw him incorporating everything from viola, celtic harp, dulcimer, baritone ukulele, piano, harpsichord, analog synthesizers and re-sampled field recordings in his music and collaborating with the likes of Marianne Faithfull, Tilda Swinton, Angelo Badalamenti and Patti Smith, among others. Wolf is currently in the studio working on a full-length album due early 2024 and will will embark on a special UK headline tour to bring the project to life, encompassing dates in Cardiff, Glasgow, London and more. The majority of dates are sold out but find remaining tickets here.

Live Dates:

April 19 - Cardiff - Globe
April 20 - Glasgow - Oran Mor
April 21 - Hebden Bridge - Trades Club
April 23- Manchester - Band on the Wall
April 24 - London - Lafayette