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  • 2024 Leaf Label Releases

    2024 Leaf Label Releases

    MINING – Chimet

    After a lengthy gestation, and many years in the making, Chimet has already been making waves(!) digitally, but is soon to be available on CD (and in a unique double-LP format) from May 17th. It’s a project involving myself, Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby, and PJ Davy. Together, we have endeavoured to bring our varied interests of the sea, sailing, data, and electronic music together to make something that, although driven by a large set of sea data, aspires to be musically emotive, and compelling enough to bear many repeated listens(!). 

    You can find out more about the project on the MINING Bandcamp page (all orders placed will be delivered by the May 17th).


    NIGHTPORTS w/MATTHEW BOURNE – Dulcitone 1804

    Made in a single day, this is the latest offering from an ongoing collaboration with Nightports (Adam Martin & Mark Slater), and is scheduled for release on May 24th. As far as we know, this is the first album to have been made featuring the Dulcitone as a solo instrument… 

    Here’s an attempt to explain everything about the Dulcitone, and the process behind the music:

    Machell will be available on all DSPs, so do head on over to the Nightports Bandcamp page to listen and pre-order the full album.

    For those of you in the north, we’ll be bringing this to the Brudenell Piano Sessions at Howard Assembly Room in Leeds, June 9th. 

  • Nightports w/ Betamax – NEW ALBUM RELEASE

    Adam Martin and Mark Slater, AKA Nightports, are unleashing a new collaboration w/ Betamax (Hot Head Show / The Comet is Coming). If this sneak preview is anything to go by, you can bet that the full album will be a labour of dedicated listening, inventive reshaping, and recontextual production mastery. And who could expect anything less from these guys? I can’t wait…

    …but, I’ll have to.

     

    Nightports w/ Betamax is released on June 12, is available to pre-order HERE.

     

    Go on, get that rule-of-restriction trigger-finger wiggling. x

     

     

     

     

  • New album: Isotach

    I’m delighted to announce my new album Isotach. Recorded at home in Airedale, this is a somewhat deliberate return to all things mechanical and physical (i.e. the piano and cello). Much of the music is quite still, and if you listen carefully you might just be able to make out the sound of various weather beating itself against the windows. Isotach is my third solo album for The Leaf Label, and marks yet another milestone in my musical partnership with producer Sam Hobbs.

    Isotach will be released on August 18th, and you can pre-order the album on LP+CD/CD/download here.

  • Bourne In China…

    Bourne, along with Imogen Heap, Jamie Woon and Gareth Bonello has been chosen from around 40 applicants to take part in a residency programme organised by The British Council and PRS for Music Foundation. The six-week residencies are designed to enable innovative British musicians to explore new musical territory, reach new audiences and write new material in the context of an emerging, international market.

    Bourne will be undertaking his residency in the city of Xiamen in March 2012 – click on the image for more information about the programme.