Following the elegiac sweep of “Enter the Day”, today acclaimed singer, songwriter, composer and producer Patrick Wolf unveils another track from his forthcoming “The Night Safari” EP, in the form of the urgent, propulsive “Nowhere Game”.
As defiant and thrilling as “Enter the Day” was romantic and wistful, “Nowhere Game” provides yet another scintillating clue to the enigma that is the much anticipated “Night Safari” EP, due for release April 14th on Wolf’s own label, Apport.
In Wolf’s words -
“On the way home from a concert on a stage facing the Black Sea in Crimea I recorded a melody into my laptop and started programming on the plane home, trying to make a portrait of the storm rolling I had watched sitting backstage on the beach with an armed security guard. Many years later as I was finishing The Night Safari E.P I discovered that unfinished project and then the new string section and lyrics of a period of life I named “nowhere game”, a few years where I stopped singing all together apart from, I realised, to record “happy birthday” down the phone to my friends and family. Ultimately the song to me is a slow realisation of being trapped in any manifestation of a vicious cycle and a long way yet from knowing how to ask for help. The viola and violin parts on Nowhere Game and across the e.p are played by myself for the first time since my first two albums, proof to me that I had broken one of my own vicious cycles in the end and returned to my craft”
The latest track arrives with a beautifully cinematic, eerily surreal, night shot video from the award winning director Joseph Wilson (PRETTYBIRD), whose work exploring LGBTQ+ narratives has been critically lauded and celebrated in equal measure. “Nowhere Game” is actually the second part of a short film which will arrive in the coming weeks...
Wolf delves into the video’s concept and creation here -
“This video is the second part of a film directed by Joseph Wilson that journeys through the first two tracks of The Night Safari E.P, this second part opens with me rowing down the black frozen river of the previous song into the “Nowhere Game” that Joseph and I imagined up inspired by our own mutual experiences of nowhere. Every stitch of clothes and costume in the video from my own to the nowhere creatures too was handmade by me and the visionary Marco Tullio Siviglia, our collaboration, as it came to pass with every creative and dancer involved on the video became as magical as it was accidentally emotional. As we all began to enter past the midnight hour it soon began to feel like an act of solidarity filming in the abandoned Beacon Hill Fort on the coldest night of 2022”
Wolf is one of the most talented and idiosyncratic musicians of his generation, with a run of critically hailed albums, starting with “Lycanthropy” in 2003 to “Lupercalia” in 2010 which saw him incorporating everything from viola, celtic harp, dulcimer, baritone ukulele, piano, harpsichord, analog synthesisers and re-sampled field recordings in his music and collaborating with the likes of Marianne Faithfull, Tilda Swinton, Angelo Badalamenti and Patti Smith, among others. “The Night Safari” EP will be released 14th April.
TRACKLIST
The Night Safari
Nowhere Game
Acheron
Dodona
Enter The Day
LIVE DATES
19 April - Cardiff - Globe
20 April - Glasgow - Oran Mor
21 April - Hebden Bridge - Trades Club
23 April - Manchester - Band on the Wall
24 April - London - Lafayette
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