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, reworked, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation.

Based solely on Matthew Bourne piano performances, Nightports transform and process these sounds in radical fashion. The results have a heavy percussive impact, with a stark, almost industrial edge despite the acoustic origins. Through it all, Bourne's endlessly inventive playing shines through, alternately jagged and reflective. Excellent...

By Adam