Nighty Night

Jeff T Byrd is an American multi-instrumentalist currently living in Vienna, and a member of the Budokan Boys. "The starting point for Nighty Night was a collection of cassette tapes my dad made in the 1980s — recordings of nothing in particular: telephone calls, thunderstorms, people talking, cars, airplanes, machinery, TV news. Augmenting these with my own field recordings (made on tape and digital over the last 20 years) and improvisations on piano, saxophone and synthesizer, I collaged and layered according to intuition rather than logic. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was caught up in a process of revisiting and reenacting my memories.