Portico Quartet - We Welcome Tomorrow

Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of five studio albums, from their 2007 breakthrough ‘Knee-Deep in the North Sea’, and 2010 John Leckie produced ‘Isla’, to the self-titled record ‘Portico Quartet’ in 2012, their 2017 masterwork, and Gondwana Records debut, Art In The Age of Automation and their 2019 release Memory Streams..

This three track EP WWT explores modern classical and ambient textures amd features the duo Fran and Flora (Francesca Ter-Berg cello & Flora Curzon) on strings, but also builds looped saxophones, drums and synths parts into a rich tapestry of sound. Odd time signatures underpin a surprisingly emotional build that resolves in richly layered strings.