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The Nightjar: The Open Fund for Music Creators

The Nightjar: The Open Fund for Music Creators

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The Nightjar Album Launch: Dark Post-folk, Film, Projections and Animation

Drawing influence from the surreal atmospherics of Grouper, the stark and poignant balladry of Diane Cluck and the deft compositions of Colleen, The Nightjar use close-harmonies, tight-interlocking guitars, deep bass and an intense lead vocal to paint fragile, haunting landscapes for their dream-like, ethereal songs of hope, loss and disaster. Inspired by Eastern notions of emptiness, the ephemeral nature of reality and the cultivation of empathy for the world, The Nightjar’s work holds a plaintive resonance of the philosophizing of legendary French composer Olivier Messiaen, whose Catholic faith and explorations of the void of existence comes to mind when The Nightjar refer to their album Objects as “songs for the end of time.”

Objects came into being in the autumn of 2015, when the band relocated to a farmhouse in rural Portugal to begin recording what would become their first full-length offering. The limitations of their equipment and the remoteness of the setting proved to be fertile, creative conditions; leading not only to the raw honesty and directness of the songs, but also a body of artworks, including photography, film and animation.

The launch of The Nightjar‘s Objects – held in March  in London and The Cube in Bristol on 17th March – will showcase the band as a vibrant collective of multi-disciplinary artists and celebrate the value of collaboration. The Nightjar, in partnership with a number of other artists, presents a night of sound, light, projections and film.

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