The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of schoolfriends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, ...

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Portico Quartet have announced their fifth studio album Memory Streams, which arrives with the lead single "Signals in the Dusk". "Signals in the Dusk" is the band's first new single since last year's ...

Portico Quartet, CREDIT: Hannah Collins. Portico Quartet have announced the imminent arrival of a new album ‘Terrain’, set for release next month. The record, due out May 28 through Gondwana, will ...

THEY’VE gone from busking to a Mercury Prize nomination in a short space of time. THEY’VE gone from busking to a Mercury Prize nomination in a short space of time. And now The Portico Quartet are ...

Wise Music Group has signed Portico Quartet through Campbell Connelly & Co in an exclusive songwriter agreement. The publishing deal includes their back catalogue and future work. Led by ...

On ‘Ultraviolet,’ the third track on Portico’s latest album, Monument, lush electronics collide with distant twinkles, and somewhere far away, above those warm instrumentals, a saxophone croons. The ...

Having created a seismic sensation in Britain with its first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007)—which was a Mercury Prize Album Of The Year in 2008—Portico Quartet now releases that ...

So, you play modern (world) jazz. Your debut record gets nominated for a Mercury Prize (Knee Deep In The North Sea was eventually edged out by Elbow in 2008). How do you then go about following that ...