Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet still sound like nothing you ever heard before. The Mercury Nominated East London based outfits 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 Arve Henriksen and Bon Iver and echoes of Steve Reich and Max Richter. But all underpinned by a shared joy in collective music making as the band push their inimitable music into the future.

Portico Quartets fourth album, a doube CD set entitled Live / Remix is released in March 2013 on Real World Records. It offers fans and new listeners a chance to hear the band in all their live glory as Portico Quartet take the listener on an epic journey into the heart of their inimitable electro-acoustic-ambient music. While the remix disc features remixes from Will Ward, SBTRKT, Luke Abbott, Scratcha DVA, LV, Capac, Konx-om-Pax and Luca Lozano.

Full of mystery and drama Portico Quartet still take the listener on an unparalleled journey and live they pack a heavy punch as the band looks defiantly into the future.

Selected Press

Isla feeds on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic. - MOJO (4/5)

genuinely innovative.. there isnt a band that sounds remotely like them. - Observer Music Monthly (4/5)

the hottest ticket in town - Time Out

Line-Up:

Duncan Bellamy - (Drums and Electronics)

Jack Wyllie - (Saxophones and Electronics)

Milo Fitzpatrick - (Bass and Electronics)

Keir Vine - (Hang and keyboards)