‘Nightports w/ Betamax’ is the second in a series of albums from musician-producers Adam Martin & Mark Slater to be released on The Leaf Label. It follows 2018’s ‘Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne’, which drew its source material from a series of sessions by maverick composer Matthew Bourne, on a range of different pianos.

This time, Nightports have enlisted the formidable talents of drummer and percussionist Betamax, the beating rhythmic heart of sonic explorers The Comet Is Coming. Recorded in one day in February 2018 at Malcolm Catto’s Quatermass Sound Lab Studio, Betamax traced lines of thought within a tangled web of cables, microphones and vintage equipment. Over the following months, Martin and Slater set about decoding the recorded results of that day…