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PORTICO QUARTETTam Tutta Un' Altra Musica - Eventi SCRL | Musicians proposals | 2010-04-28 |
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| I'd like to introduce you to PORTICO QUARTET an interesting young band from London who have the potential to become big. Their press is fantastic everywhere.
PORTICO QUARTET are a jazz band with an indie rock attitude and with a young audience, and they have shared bill with bands like starsailor, headlined at clubs like koko in London and will play a great slot at britain's biggest rock festival glastonbury this summer.
The band has just finished a long tour in March-April in UK, Germany and other countries, and in the summer some European festivals have already been confirmed such as Bergenfest, Sildajazz, Jazz sous les Pommiers, Paris La Villette, Copenhagen Jazz Fest, Warzaw Jazz Days, Jazzfest Wien, Jazzbaltica, Jazzaldia San Sebastian and others.
PORTICO QUARTET are big in England, and they had a full Barbican show in early March with almost 2000 people!
It would seem that Brit-Jazz is pretty hip, and the coolness of the band has helped them to attract a young audience, which isn’t comprised completely of jazz freaks.
It only takes a quick glance at the press quotes from Portico Quartet’s new album reviews to predict that these four young musicians from London will soon become one of the hippest new jazz bands around. Their music is on the one hand light, catchy and makes you want to dance, yet on the other, highly emotional, completely mesmerising and full of energy, its like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Portico Quartet describe themselves as a „post jazz“ playing indie-band, of which their line up of drums, bass and saxophone would seem somewhat normal, were it not for the Hang, an innovative, fascinating instrument from Switzerland who’s sound reminds you of Asia. The good looking, cool Nick Mulvey, actually an African-music-admiring guitarist and singer, discovered it years ago at the Womad Festival and integrated it into the jazz context.
And it was clearly a success, as the debut album of Portico Quartet “Knee Deep in the North Sea” was short-listed for the Mercury Prize, one of the most important British music awards. The new album “Isla” reached place 68 on the i-tunes Charts in the UK – take that Popcharts! (And it was at the top of the i-tunes jazz charts). The label is (Peter Gabriel’s) Realworld. “Isla” which already is a hit in the UK and Germany has been released in Scandinavia in mid February. You will find further information in the links listed below. Please note also the press quotes under the flyer. http://www.f-cat.de/Portico-Quartet-main.html http://www.myspace.com/porticoquartet http://www.f-cat.de/Portico-Quartet-press-review.html Some Videos in the internet:
best regards,
Frank Abraham
F-Cat Productions GmbH
Pohlstraße 39, D-10785 Berlin, Germany Fon. +49-(0)30 26 103 29 20 Fax. +49-(0)30 26 103 29 99 mail: frank@f-cat.de web: http://www.f-cat.de Registered: Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 101111 B our artist roster is online: http://www.f-cat.de/artist-at-a-glance.html please visit our F-Cat B2B-Area to get more information about our artists (acts, promos, riders etc.) :
PRESS QUOTES “Isla feeds on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming caernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic” **** stars MOJO “genuinely innovative.. there isn’t a band that sounds remotely like them… **** stars” Observer Music Monthly “Achingly cool…a haunting sound that echoes in your head long after they have stopped playing” The Sun “A Jot to listen to, full of depth and detail” Word Magazine “uncommonly beautiful” Time Out “Try to imagine the coolest film never made. We mean really cool. Steve McQueen and Samuel L, on 'Easy Rider' choppers, in a French film-noir spy film, infiltrating a Yakuza Samurai cult. Portico Quartet would provide the soundtrack” Channel 4.com “A phenomenon in the making” The Independent “A melodic accesibility and cinematic scope as liable to woo fans of Radiohead as patrons of Ronnie Scott’s” **** stars Q “Uber-cool jazz buskers” the Guardian ‘As traditionally hook based as anything from rock, to hip hop” The Guardian "This unforgettable disc shimmers with brilliance." BBC Music Magazine “Haunting, beautifully austere sound” Metro “Danceable chamber jazz soundscapes combine hectic soprano sax riffing over a dynamic rhythm section and should make them a Glasto fixture’ “‘best of the rest” Q Magzine - Glastonbury Review 2008 “Strange but beautiful stuff” Notion “Hummable melodies” the Sun "Floating somewhere between jazz and modern classical music, this young group make a strikingly original sound."The Times "The group generates pieces with a recognisably human pulse – ECM with a little extra passion, if you will..chamber jazz with a Late Junction twist" Sunday Times |
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