Portico Quartet

Introduction

The “Radiohead of Jazz”, Portico Quartet, still sound like nothing you ever heard before. The Mercury-nominated East London based outfit’s unique music has expanded to embrace new sonic territories. Drawing on the inspiration of electronica, ambient, classical and dance music as they take their strange, beautiful, cinematic future music to exciting new vistas where the inspiration of Burial, Mount Kimbie and Flying Lotus rubs shoulders with the textures of Bon Iver, all underpinned by a shared joy in collective music making as the band push their inimitable music into the future. Portico Quartet’s third, self-titled, album is released in January 2012 on Real World. Full of mystery and drama, Portico Quartet still take the listener on an unparalleled journey and live they pack a heavy punch…