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Portico Quartet
Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, UK. They are known for their use of the hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their debut album, ''Knee-Deep in the North Sea'', was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize and was '' Time Out’s'' Jazz, Folk and World album of the year 2007. The group consists of Duncan Bellamy (drums and electronics), Jack Wyllie (saxophones and keyboards), Milo Fitzpatrick (electric and double-bass) and Keir Vine (keyboards). Their name comes from when one of their early gigs was rained out and they ended up playing under a portico. All of the group's album covers, artwork and graphic design is done by the drummer, Duncan Bellamy, who has a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. History The band was formed from two groups of childhood friends (Jack Wyllie and Milo Fitzpatrick from Southampton, and Duncan Bellamy and Nick Mulvey from Cambridge) who met in 2005 while studying at university in London. Bellamy and Mulvey had originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portico Quartet (album)
''Portico Quartet'' is the third studio album by the British group Portico Quartet, released in January 2012. Background ''Portico Quartet'' is Portico Quartet's third studio album. The album saw a notable development in style, incorporating significant use of electronics and looping compared to the acoustic sound of their first two albums Knee-Deep in the North Sea and Isla. The group had already been exploring use of electronics, live samples and looping when touring their second album Isla in 2010. This was accelerated when founding member Nick Mulvey left in 2011 to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. Without their main hang player, the group turned to sampling the hang, as well as using a hybrid mix of electronic and acoustic drums, and electronically treated and looped bowed bass and saxophone lines. The drummer, Duncan Bellamy, explained the new approach for the track Laker Boo in a contemporary interview: ''“The twinkly loop that starts it is actually the hang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live/Remix
''Live/Remix'' is the fourth album by Portico Quartet, and their first live album. It was released in 2013. Background ''Live/Remix'' is the band's third album to be released on Real World Records. It is a double album. The first disc features songs from their Isla and Portico Quartet albums, recorded live on tour in 2012. The second disc features remixes of the studio versions of the songs by a range of artists including Sbtrkt, Luke Abbott and Konx-om-Pax. A remix of Steepless by Capac is included after winning a remix competition the band had run as part of the promotion for their Portico Quartet album. The artwork and design for the album was done by the drummer Duncan Bellamy, who has a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Critical reception The album was generally positively received. John Fordham in ''The Guardian'' wrote that it is "a memorable set hatcatches the sweeping big-venue confidence and charisma of Portico Quartet's recent performances wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla (Portico Quartet Album)
''Isla'' is the second studio album by Portico Quartet, released in 2009. Background ''Isla'' is Portico Quartet’s second studio album and the follow-up to Knee-Deep in the North Sea, their Mercury Prize-nominated debut album. The album saw a continuation and refinement of the live acoustic sound developed in Knee-Deep in the North Sea. While those songs were written busking, the songs for ''Isla'' were written over a period of four winter months in the band’s garden shed. Reflecting this the album has a darker, more introspective tone than its predecessor. Songs for the album were recorded in May 2009 at Abbey Road Studio 2. The album was produced by John Leckie. Electronic overdubs and string arrangements were added at Fish Factory Studios. Artwork and design for the album was done by the drummer Duncan Bellamy, who has a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. The cover is a painting by Bellamy. Critical reception ''Isla'' received widespread international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knee-Deep In The North Sea
''Knee-Deep in the North Sea'' is Portico Quartet’s 2007 debut album. It was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize and was Time Out Magazine’s Jazz, Folk and World album of the year 2007. Background The songs for the album were developed by the band while busking outside the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. The songs are notable for their use of the hang, a modern percussion instrument. The album was originally released in 2007 on the Vortex imprint of Babel Label. In 2011 the album was re-mixed by John Leckie for Real World Records and re-released as a deluxe edition. This included three additional bonus tracks. It was the first time the album was released on vinyl. The name for the title track comes from when founding member Nick Mulvey attended a rave by the sea in Norfolk. The album was an important influence on the band Alt-J, who listed it as one of five records they wouldn’t exist without. The title track was referenced in their song Dissolve Me, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT), is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Internationally, it is known as the National Theatre of Great Britain. Founded by Laurence Olivier in 1963, many well-known actors have performed at the National Theatre. Until 1976, the company was based at The Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. The current building is located next to the Thames in the South Bank area of central London. In addition to performances at the National Theatre building, the National Theatre tours productions at theatres across the United Kingdom. The theatre has transferred numerous productions to Broadway and toured some as far as China, Australia and New Zealand. However, touring productions to European cities was suspended in February 2021 over concerns about uncertainty over work permits, additional costs and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète, minimal music, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by British mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Klosterman
Charles John Klosterman (; born 1972) is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for '' Esquire'' and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for ''The New York Times Magazine''. Klosterman is the author of twelve books, including two novels and the essay collection '' Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto''. He was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002. Early life Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman. He is of German and Polish descent. He grew up on a farm in nearby Wyndmere, North Dakota, and was raised Roman Catholic. He graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1990 and from the University of North Dakota in 1994. Career After college, Klosterman was a journalist in Fargo, North Dakota, and later a reporter and arts critic for the '' Akron Beacon Journal'' in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybound (podcast)
''Storybound'' is a podcast created, produced, and hosted by Jude Brewer, with original music composed for each episode. The show is a collaboration between ''Lit Hub'' and The Podglomerate podcast network, featuring household names and Pulitzer Prize winning authors alongside relatively unknown bands, singer-songwriters, and composers. Season 1 debuted on December 3, 2019. Inspired from Brewer's ''Storytellers Telling Stories'', ''Storybound'' surpassed a million downloads in its first year, following up with seasons 2 and 3, the latter of which has been recognized for experimental cross-genre music compositions with sampling created and arranged by Brewer. Series overview Regarding the crafting of each episode, Brewer likened the relationship between literature and music as the conceptual evolution of a live reading, also adding how "beats or time signatures or chord progressions" allow listeners to feel a story's forward progression: "There's something subtle in your mind t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art In The Age Of Automation
''Art in the Age of Automation'' is the fourth studio album by Portico Quartet Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, UK. They are known for their use of the hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their debut album, ''Knee-Deep in the North Sea'', was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize and was ''Time Out†.... It was released on 25 August 2017. Track listing All songs written by Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie. # Endless – 4:27 # Objects to Place in a Tomb – 5:27 # Rushing – 6:19 # Art in the Age of Automation – 4:55 # S/20005S – 0:37 # A Luminous Beam – 6:02 # Beyond Dialogue – 6:42 # RGB – 4:32 # Current History – 6:07 # Mercury Eyes – 1:36 # Lines Glow – 3:49 Untitled (AITAOA #2) On 9 March 2018, the band announced the release of a companion piece to ''Art in the Age of Automation'', called "''Untitled (AITAOA #2)''" and featuring tracks recorded during the ''Art in the Age of Automation'' sessions. It is due to be released on 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Fields (Portico Album)
''Living Fields'' is the first studio album by Portico, released in 2015. Background Portico were a band formed by three original members of Portico Quartet. Despite the similarity in name, they considered this to be a new, separate group due to the difference in musical style. While Portico Quartet are known for their jazz-influenced instrumental music, ''Living Fields'' is an electronic experimental pop album featuring guest vocal collaborations. The overall themes for the album, both musically and lyrically, were drawn from the 2010 documentary Nostalgia for the Light. The band identified this as a means of unifying the issues that they were themselves facing in their own lives: "The film is about ideas of loss and new beginnings, it's about death and ideas of afterlife, it's about history and time, the beginning of the universe, it's about many many things and deep issues. So it's not about the film necessarily but it's more about the themes and it was a good way to get a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His fifth studio album, '' So'' (1986), is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, " Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV's most played music video of all time. Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has also pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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