Uploaded by projazz on December 12, 2019 at 5:02 pm

surpass their past selves and ascend to soaring heights.is without a shred of doubt their finest work to date, and one of the finest albums of this year. For those of you that haven’t heard of them, Portico Quartet are a jazz band hailing from London, UK. They established themselves as a fairly uncharacteristic group, incorporating electronic textures into their music and approaching their song structures with a downtempo and post-rock-influenced mindset. It quickly became noticeable that with each release, the band were continuously refining their craft and looking for new ways to take their sound further. Enter Memory Streams, the culmination of fifteen years of development as a group. This album is easily the band’s most solid on literally all levels." - EverythingIsNoise "An album that locates their music in an age where we have unfettered access to a vast and ever expanding archive of imagery and ideas, Memory Streams both embraces and builds on Portico Quartet’s own unique music and legacy and locates their music firmly in the present." - Bandcamp A1 With, Beside, Against A2 Signals In The Dusk A3 Gradient A4 Ways Of Seeing A5 Memory Palace B1 Offset B2 Dissident Gardens B3 Double Helix B4 Immediately VisibleJack Wyllie - saxophones, electronics Duncan Bellamy - drums, glock Milo Fitzpatrick - double bass _________________________ Label: Gondwana Records ‎– GONDLP034 Format: Vinyl, LP, CD Album Country: UK Released: 04 Oct 2019

“Portico Quartet surpass their past selves and ascend to soaring heights. Memory Streams is without a shred of doubt their finest work to date, and one of the finest albums of this year.

For those of you that haven’t heard of them, Portico Quartet are a jazz band hailing from London, UK. They established themselves as a fairly uncharacteristic group, incorporating electronic textures into their music and approaching their song structures with a downtempo and post-rock-influenced mindset. It quickly became noticeable that with each release, the band were continuously refining their craft and looking for new ways to take their sound further. Enter Memory Streams, the culmination of fifteen years of development as a group. This album is easily the band’s most solid on literally all levels.” – EverythingIsNoise

“An album that locates their music in an age where we have unfettered access to a vast and ever expanding archive of imagery and ideas, Memory Streams both embraces and builds on Portico Quartet’s own unique music and legacy and locates their music firmly in the present.” – Bandcamp

Track listing:

A1 With, Beside, Against

A2 Signals In The Dusk

A3 Gradient

A4 Ways Of Seeing

A5 Memory Palace

B1 Offset

B2 Dissident Gardens

B3 Double Helix

B4 Immediately Visible

Personnel:

Jack Wyllie – saxophones, electronics

Duncan Bellamy – drums, glock

Milo Fitzpatrick – double bass

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Label: Gondwana Records ‎– GONDLP034

Format: Vinyl, LP, CD Album

Country: UK

Released: 04 Oct 2019



