Portico Quartet continue to push new boundaries on ‘Memory Streams’
Following two incredible releases over the past few years in Art in the Age of Automation and the complimentary album Untitled (AITAOA #2) off of Gondwana Records, the London-based group Portico Quartet return with their fifth studio album Memory Streams that continues to explore the melding of jazz and electronic music.
Building off their past couple of releases, this new nine-track recording incorporating live instrumentation, atmospheric tones, looping hypnotic grooves, ambient melodies, and pulsating drum rhythms. Throughout the album, their are many moments of heightened built up tension that resolves into climatic releases and calming interludes, taking the listeners on a sonic trance-like musical journey.
With over a dozen years of recording, the band continues to push their music forward while also embracing the group’s uniquely rooted signature sound. Solid from start to finish, Memory Streams is a brilliant new record and the next musical chapter from a group that is always defining their own musical path.
Highly recommended to fans of The Cinematic Orchestra, Ishmael Ensemble, GoGo Penguin, and Radiohead.
Portico Quartet — ‘Memory Streams’
(Gondwana Records)
- With, Beside, Against
- Signals in the Dusk
- Gradient
- Ways of Seeing
- Memory Palace
- Offset
- Dissident Gardens
- Double Helix
- Immediately Visible
