Port St. Willow

Port St. Willow is the solo vehicle of ambient pop artist Nicholas Principe. The project started in 2009 when Principe was living in Portland, Oregon, and melded textural atmospheric sounds with soft, slowcore song structures and falsetto vocals. A self-released first album, Even//Wasteland, appeared in late 2010, making the rounds in the form of a hand-stamped CD-R. Principe migrated to Brooklyn in 2012 where he finished and self-released a second album Holiday. Holiday made more of an impression, drawing outspoken praise from several media outlets as well as a public nod of recommendation from noise pop godfather Brian Eno. In 2013, Port St. Willow signed a deal with Downtown Records, who reissued Holiday on a wider scale in March of that year.

Principe is currently living in New York and collaborating with new live members Thomas Crane and Andrew Dunn as they prepare for the release of a new record later this year.