Tag: Portico Quartet
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Live Review: Sankorfa @ Borderline (London, April 23)
It’s something of a cliché now to say a band defies categorisation but the sonic mavericks of Sankorfa are only too worthy of this observation. Formed in 2004, Guildhall School of Music alumnae Michael Allen, Zands Duggan, Ruth Gomez and Scott Wilson are the four multi-instrumentalists behind the band, who borrow their name from an…
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LIVE REVIEW: Portico Quartet 'Isla' Album Launch (London)
KOKO of Camden was full to capacity last night with Portico Quartet appreciators, for the official launch gig for their new album Isla released on 19 October. According to their good mate and fellow artist Jamie Woon, who I bumped into at the show, there were ticket touts hanging around outside the venue. As he…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Portico Quartet – Isla
Unorthodox. Ethereal. Other-worldly. Now that I have got some of those lazy, oft-used albeit very apt descriptions of Portico Quartet’s music out of the way, I have to work a bit harder to do this review justice. It’s not that it’s hard to say good things about the 2008 Mercury Prize nominees and their special…