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Portico Quartet at Norwich Arts Centre, UK
by Bruce Lindsay
Portico Quartet Norwich Arts Centre Norwich, UK November 16, 2009 Portico Quartet is establishing itself at the forefront of the British jazz scene--a young band with a distinctive and recognizable sound that is both immediately accessible and also full of complex patterns and melodies that repay repeated listening. ...
Innovative British Group Portico Quartet Interviewed at AAJ
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
Portico Quartet: Not Particularly a Jazz Band
by Bruce Lindsay
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
Portico Quartet: Isla
by Chris May
Having created a seismic sensation in Britain with its first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007)--which was a Mercury Prize Album Of The Year in 2008--Portico Quartet now releases that “difficult" second album. Can the group better its precocious debut? Yes it can. Portico has grown, as a collective entity and as individual ...
Knee Deep In The North Sea
Label: The Vortex
Released: 2007
Track listing: News From Verona; (Something's Going Down On) Zavodovski Island; Knee Deep In The North Sea; Too Many Cooks; Steps In The Wrong Direction; Monsoon-Top To Bottom; The Kon Tiki Expedition; Cittagazze; Pompidou.
Portico Quartet: Knee Deep In The North Sea
by Chris May
Portico Quartet are currently le dernier cri in London--awards nominations, MTV sync deals and top-end TV and radio sessions are being thrown their way like confetti. Knee Deep In The North Sea is the quartet's debut album and it proves to be great stuff, deserving of much of the media cavalcade. Portico's USP is ...
