Advent 2019: Day 11
For day 11 in the Bleep advent series, we have a special limited edition T-shirt from Portico Quartet (Gondwana Records) bundled with their album Memory Streams.
Portico Quartet - Memory Streams Album + T-Shirt Bundle
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- Portico Quartet
- ReleaseProduct
- Portico Quartet Memory Streams T-Shirt + Album Bundle
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- Gondwana Records
- Catalogue Number
- PQMEMORYBUNDLE
- Release Date
- December 11, 2019
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Memory Streams LP + T-shirt
Portico Quartet - Memory Streams T-shirt
Portico Quartet - Memory Streams Album
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- Artist
- Portico Quartet
- ReleaseProduct
- Memory Streams
- Label
- Gondwana Records
- Catalogue Number
- GONDCD034
- Release Date
- October 4, 2019
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At this point in time Portico Quartet are somewhat elder statesmen in the world of British jazz. Long before acts like Ezra Collective and Nubya Garcia were forging their fresh new sound, the London group laid the groundwork with their harmonious brand of post-jazz. While their sound may be less raucous than that of the young guns, many of the current crop owe Portico Quartet a substantial debt.
The band’s fifth LP Memory Streams is another set of detailed contemporary fusions. Portico Quartet have always been a jazz group in spirit rather than sound, with their style drawing on neo-minimalism, hip-hop, 90’s electronica and post-rock. Indeed, only on a couple of occasions do the winds of Memory Streams blow in a similar direction to current jazz trends - the stirring ‘Double Helix’, for instance, a track which wouldn’t have sounded out of place slotted into one of Brownswood’s recent scene-surveying compilations.
By and large Portico Quartet go for something denser and prettier here. Kindred spirits include The Physics House Band, Rocketnumbernine and the more orchestral end of Floating Points’ output. Tracks like ‘Ways Of Seeing’ and ‘With, Beside, Against’ combine the widescreen reveries of post-rock with some almost spiritual qualities; ‘Offset’ (woo, woo, woo) steers close to 2000s Four Tet; ‘Memory Palace’ is a pristine contemporary classical piano composition in the Ryuichi Sakamoto mould.
Portico Quartet continue to plough their own furrow on their gorgeous new album Memory Streams.
Digital Tracklist
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With, Beside, Against
4:11
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With, Beside, Against
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Signals in the Dusk
5:31
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Gradient
4:34
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Gradient
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Ways of Seeing
6:09
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Ways of Seeing
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Memory Palace
1:32
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Memory Palace
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Offset
4:31
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Offset
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Dissident Gardens
5:46
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Double Helix
6:47
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Immediately Visible
5:49
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Bleep Mix #89 - Portico Quartet
To celebrate our 11th day of advent, Portico Quartet have provided us with a special one hour mix of influences:
"This mix draws on the music we bond over and that continues to inspire the music we make. There's a focus on ambient music at the start, both modern as well as a dive into some classic Jon Hassel and Hiroshi Yoshimura. Special shout out goes to R Beny, who’s music I have listened to constantly over the last month. There's also a track from an Estonian handbell ensemble that we listened to a lot when we were all sharing a house together over 10 years ago. Then there’s some of the music we have been involved in making, Szun Waves and we’ve put one of our own tunes in there. Then moving towards some music on the fringes of dance floor that have felt significant to us. Finishing with a haunting track from Robbie Basho. Hope you enjoy!"
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