@TignorTronics presents: Port St. Willow, Christopher Tignor, Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors)

Port St. Willow is the music and noise project of Nicholas Principe.
On April 2nd, 2013, Downtown Records reissued the previously self-released debut LP, Holiday, including a new companion suite titled "Soft Light Rush". Principe is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York.


"Tignor creates a muttered hum of activity that burbles at the fringes of an internally focused halo of sustained, glowing chords, and the effect is powerful." - NPR

"Absurdly talented" - The Guardian UK

Brooklyn based violinist, composer, and software engineer Christopher Tignor is best known for his work through his bands Slow Six, Wires.Under.Tension and as a composer for forward­thinking classical ensembles over the last 15 years. Tignor's emotionally charged scores are built from layered strings, percussion, and live electronics and live neatly between worlds, performed around the world at venues ranging from the rock clubs of South by Southwest to Carnegie Hall. His 7 LP's are available from the Western Vinyl and New Albion record labels and compilation records featuring Tignor's work for others are available through In a Circle and GPR records including music for the renown Brooklyn Rider string quartet and A Far Cry string orchestra. As a string arranger and violinist, Tignor has worked with This Will Destroy You, Glass Ghost, Lymbyc Systym, and several other bands at the boundaries popular music. Several of his live processing software instruments are available from his website: wiresundertension.com.


After studying avant-garde jazz and improvisation with jazz legend Anthony Braxton, Nat Baldwin started writing songs featuring double bass and vocals. In 2005 he joined Dirty Projectors. In addition to his work with Dirty Projectors, he has performed on Grizzly Bear's Sheilds, Vampire Weekend's Contra, and Department of Eagles' In Ear Park. In between touring and recording with Dirty Projectors, Nat made time to record his 2011 album People Changes, an album that led Pitchfork to say "…whether Baldwin is singing with his throat or his bow, there's a thrilling felling of freedom to it all."