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Nick Mulvey

Wednesday 13th November 2013

With: Fiona Bevan

At Proud Cabaret Brighton

Doors 8:00 pm

Price £7 / £9

Melting Vinyl are excited to welcome Nick Mulvey to Proud Cabaret Brighton this November!

For the 28-year-old whose writing has already influenced acclaimed Mercury Prize victors Alt-J, who quote his old band, Portico Quartet title ‘Knee Deep In The North Sea’ in their jazzy ‘Dissolve Me’,  picking up the guitar again felt like a homecoming after five years as Britain’s foremost player of the hang – the Swiss percussion instrument invented in the early 2000s. A steel War of the Worlds alien that gives out a warm melodic clang, its distinctive sound was in large part responsible for Portico Quartet becoming the most accessible Mercury nominated jazz act of recent years. Their debut album, Knee-deep in the North Sea, was Mercury nominated alongside Elbow, Radiohead and Adele in 2008, and led to several years of touring major venues for the band.

Mulvey essentially decided to leave Portico Quartet halfway through a lengthy global tour, but they remain firm friends, with Portico drummer Duncan Bellamy designing the artwork for Mulvey’s Fever to the Form EP, turning a score of the guitar parts into a pattern of dark blocks.

Following quality studio time with the likes of producers Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes) and indeed Alt-J favourite Charlie Andrew, Mulvey’s debut EP leads with Fever to the Form, ostensibly the record’s simplest strum but important to Mulvey as the first song he completed after leaving Portico. The first line is, ‘So whether music or madness/I live by one of the two.’

The EP comes out through Communion Records (Michael Kiwanuka, Deap Vally, Half Moon Run), the independent label-du-jour co-run by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons.

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