Genna Al Tai - 02.09.2010 Without being too ostentatious, Portico Quartet introduces a new perspective in free jazz,a musical genre that is, more often than not, restricted to ...
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John Garratt - 30.08.2010  Portico Quartet are an instrumental music ensemble from the UK, but nothing about them sounds overtly English. Their sound is comprised of saxophone a...
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Ari Stein - 18.03.2010  If Radiohead tried to make ‘proper’ jazz and not the half-baked hybrid it attempts to now, it would perhaps sound somewhat like the Portico Quartet.Th...
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Greg Inglis - 10.12.2009  For the follow up to their Mercury nominated debut, London-based outfit Portico Quartet have drafted in veteran producer John Leckie (Radiohead, Stone...
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Kev - 10.11.2009  After the stunning success of Knee Deep In The North Sea I wrongly presumed that Portico Quartet would have some difficulty in following that album up...
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Ivan Hewett - 23.10.2009 The silvery ring of the hang (an aristocratic cousin of the steel pan) may be the Portico Quartet’s trademark sound, but in the end what linge...
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John Fordham - 22.10.2009  Having invented a unique and very catchy ensemble tone around minimalist loops-music and the melodiously tuned Hang Drum, 2008 Mercury-nominees Portic...
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the_archivist - 22.10.2009 The recent history of the Portico Quartet almost reads like a fairy story: from busking on London?s South Bank in 2005 to a Mercury Prize nomination t...
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William Grant - 21.10.2009  Contemporary jazz can be quite the musical conundrum. Jazz, with it’s own heritage, was born from a sense of rebellion - of a need for change. Before ...
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ClashMusic - 20.10.2009  With their debut, ‘Knee-deep In The North Sea’, garnering them a Mercury Music Prize nomination in the year Elbow won, Portico Quartet have returned a...
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