Events Calendar: Thursday 2 September 2010

Described as being like an Indie band that plays post-jazz, Mercury award nominated Portico Quartet play melodic, rhythmic music that mixes the inspiration of Philip Glass and Steve Reich with a very contemporary kind of jazz improvisation.

It’s the blend of ethereal saxophone, the steel pan-like Hang, clattering drums and earthy double-bass that gives their music it’s unique, beautiful sound. Their dance - friendly brand of hook-laden, post-jazz was honed busking across Europe, and playing in unusual spaces such as churches, galleries and chill-out zones has earned them a cult following. Sweet Billy Pilgrim are exemplars of English atmospheric art-pop, tinkering about somewhere between the earthy and the ethereal. Scraping strings and tapping away at laptops to make beautiful sounds, their album, Twice Born Men, released on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label, was described by Uncut as ‘the best album of its kind since Elbow’s all-conquering ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’…’

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