If the name Portico seems familiar, that’s probably understandable, as is the fact that the faces behind it may seem recognisable too. As Portico Quartet, Jack Wyllie, Duncan Bellamy, Milo Fitzpatrick and then member Nick Mulvey released their first album together – the Mercury Music Prize nominated Knee-Deep In The North Sea – back in 2007, but things around a group change, especially when you start out so young, and by the time Mulvey’s successor, Keir Vine, had also moved on, the three London based musicians realised that they were no longer satisfied by the music they were making. They had, as they put it, “gone as far as they could”. It was early 2013 – they’d all grown up, and were no longer a quartet either. This time, they decided, it was their turn to make the changes.
Living Fields is the debut album by Portico, and if the people – and the name they employ – seem familiar, rest assured that the music they make is not. Gone are the hang drum, the saxophone and the drum kit with which they first caught the world’s attention. What emerges instead is – put simply – startling. The people are the same, but the band’s been transformed. Portico and Living Fields are the proof, and one listen makes it clear that this is almost entirely new territory for Fitzpatrick, Wyllie and Bellamy. Sparse, immersive and spectral, it’s an album that is at once substantial and yet insubstantial, capable of absorbing one into an intricate sonic world whose fundamental components seem paradoxically intangible.
The album will be released 6th of April at Ninja Tune and already on the 5th of May they will come to Prague to the Lucerna Music Bar! Portico will bring a special guest: The British singer Jono McCleery, who also featured on the album; as same as Joe Newman (alt-J) and Jamie Woon.
SUPPORT:
NobodyListen (VR/NOBODY, Bigg Boss)
Pierre Urban ( Radio 1)
Line-up:
20:00 club open
20:50 NobodyListen
21:45 Portico
after Pierre Urban
NobodyListen
Jakub Strach alias NobodyListen is a 21 years old producer and DJ from Prague. Already for 5 years he is touring through the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He also worked and toured with artists like Vladimir 518, Orion, Hugo Toxxx and many more. He was the support for many great artists like Hudson Mohawke, Thundercat or Sinjin Hawke. In 2014 he was one of the 14 best producers from Czech Republic and Slovakia, that is why he could be at the RedBull Music Academy Bass Camp.
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