Name: Nightports with Tom Herbert
Brand: Nightports with Tom Herbert

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BAY129V

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Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Intricate Die Cut Sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

843190012916

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

BAY129CD

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843190012923

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Nightports with Tom Herbert

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

The Leaf Label

Independent, UK-based record company.  Majority-owned and controlled by [a1167051].  Name variations as it appears on one or more releases:
- The Leaf Label Ltd

See also [l708357], mainly found on releases prior to the Company's incorporation in 2002.

Full legal entity name: The Leaf Label Limited
UK Company number: 04402147
Incorporated: 22 March 2002

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 with Tom Herbert is the third in a series of albums from musician-producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater to be released on The Leaf Label, following 2018’s Nightports with Matthew Bourne and 2020’s Nightports with Betamax.

Tom Herbert 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 Ray and most recently The Smile. Having honed his craft holding the low-end down in some of the most forward-thinking British groups of recent times, and also appearing on some the biggest tracks of the last twenty years, Nightports with Tom Herbert brings Herbert’s command of the double bass into the spotlight.

As with all of Nightports’ work, the album rewards close listening. They stay true to their manifesto in maintaining the essence of the original recordings. The processing never masks the organic source material,at times demonstrating the physicality of the instrument with detailed recordings of complete takes - the sound of the room, the creaking of strings and Herbert’s measured breathing. At other times they build more abstract, atmospheric layers from the parts.

For fans of: Arthur Russell, Ben Frost, Murcof, Hildur Guðnadóttir.<br>