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Mercury Music Prize nominated indie-jazz phenomenon PORTICO QUARTET comes to Whelan's tomorrow (THURSDAY)
Portico Quartet
Whelan’s Thursday December 11th, 8pm
Booking: www.tickets.ie WAV [lo-call 1890 200 078]
‘Sound like nothing you've ever heard” Time Out
“A phenomenon in the making” The Independent
“A strikingly original sound” The Times
Whelan’s is proud to host London post-jazz sensations Portico Quartet following a massive wave of critical acclaim for their debut album Knee-Deep in the North Sea and their bewitching live performances, both of which have injected a fresh energy into often aloof world of contemporary jazz.
Portico Quartet are four young musicians from South London who sound like nothing you've ever heard before. Living and playing together they describe their style as an indie band that plays post-jazz, and their unique sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to BBC Music Magazine. Their debut album ‘Knee-Deep in the North Sea' was Time Out's Folk, Jazz and World music album of the year for 2007 and was nominated for the esteemed Nationwide Mercury Prize album of the year for 2008.
It's the mix of ethereal saxophone, flying saucer like hang (imagine an otherworldly steel drum), clattering drums and earthy double-bass that gives their music its inimitable, beautiful sound. Their dance friendly, melodic brand of hook-heavy post-jazz was honed busking across Europe and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries and chill-out zones. Forging contemporary jazz with modern classical tendencies (think Steve Reich and Philip Glass) along with many other genres, they have created an inimitable sound that has been compared to the work of The Cinematic Orchestra and the Penguin Café Orchestra. While their largely intuitive music references indie, jazz and African music it's the hang inspired trance-like repetitive patterns that propel the band into stranger pastures.
http://www.myspace.com/porticoquartet
Anyone here a fan?
Portico Quartet
Whelan’s Thursday December 11th, 8pm
Booking: www.tickets.ie WAV [lo-call 1890 200 078]
‘Sound like nothing you've ever heard” Time Out
“A phenomenon in the making” The Independent
“A strikingly original sound” The Times
Whelan’s is proud to host London post-jazz sensations Portico Quartet following a massive wave of critical acclaim for their debut album Knee-Deep in the North Sea and their bewitching live performances, both of which have injected a fresh energy into often aloof world of contemporary jazz.
Portico Quartet are four young musicians from South London who sound like nothing you've ever heard before. Living and playing together they describe their style as an indie band that plays post-jazz, and their unique sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to BBC Music Magazine. Their debut album ‘Knee-Deep in the North Sea' was Time Out's Folk, Jazz and World music album of the year for 2007 and was nominated for the esteemed Nationwide Mercury Prize album of the year for 2008.
It's the mix of ethereal saxophone, flying saucer like hang (imagine an otherworldly steel drum), clattering drums and earthy double-bass that gives their music its inimitable, beautiful sound. Their dance friendly, melodic brand of hook-heavy post-jazz was honed busking across Europe and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries and chill-out zones. Forging contemporary jazz with modern classical tendencies (think Steve Reich and Philip Glass) along with many other genres, they have created an inimitable sound that has been compared to the work of The Cinematic Orchestra and the Penguin Café Orchestra. While their largely intuitive music references indie, jazz and African music it's the hang inspired trance-like repetitive patterns that propel the band into stranger pastures.
http://www.myspace.com/porticoquartet
Anyone here a fan?
