Nightports with Matthew Bourne
Nightports with Matthew Bourne
Sat 15 November 2025
Stage time / 12:00pm
Doors / 11:45am
Celebrating the Jazz Clubs
Take Five Alumni
Location
St John’s Leytonstone,St John's Church, High Rd, Leytonstone
E11 1HH
The long overdue London debut of Nightports (Adam Martin and Mark Slater) with guest musician Matthew Bourne (The Leaf Label). Listen in to music and sound transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation.
Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over sixteen years, become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound. It also offers delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic venues.
The daytime series returns to the jazz festival to present the London live debut of Nightports with guest musician Matthew Bourne. The story so far: throughout a series of compelling albums on the Leaf Label producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater’s have adopted a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician, object or place can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation. They have worked to date with Betamax (drums), Tom Herbert (double bass) and Matthew Bourne (piano and dulcitone).
Matthew Bourne is a passionate explorer of sound renowned for his intensely personal solo work with an uncanny ability to balance delicacy and virtuosity, while establishing a close affinity with his audience. Bourne’s first solo studio album, 'Montauk Variations' (The Sunday Times’ Leftfield Album of the Year in 2012), was celebrated for its sense of stillness and serenity, marking an important musical turning point in his career. Following on from their collaboration on the 2018 album Nightports w/ Matthew this recent project delves into the obscure yet beautiful world of the little-known dulcitone for their second album together 'Dulcitone 1804'.
Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over sixteen years, become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound. It also offers delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic venues.
The daytime series returns to the jazz festival to present the London live debut of Nightports with guest musician Matthew Bourne. The story so far: throughout a series of compelling albums on the Leaf Label producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater’s have adopted a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician, object or place can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation. They have worked to date with Betamax (drums), Tom Herbert (double bass) and Matthew Bourne (piano and dulcitone).
Matthew Bourne is a passionate explorer of sound renowned for his intensely personal solo work with an uncanny ability to balance delicacy and virtuosity, while establishing a close affinity with his audience. Bourne’s first solo studio album, 'Montauk Variations' (The Sunday Times’ Leftfield Album of the Year in 2012), was celebrated for its sense of stillness and serenity, marking an important musical turning point in his career. Following on from their collaboration on the 2018 album Nightports w/ Matthew this recent project delves into the obscure yet beautiful world of the little-known dulcitone for their second album together 'Dulcitone 1804'.
