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Portico Quartet + Kami Thompson
- Date
- Saturday 20 March 2010
- Time
- 8:00pm
- Venue
-
WARWICK Arts Centre
address
Warwick
CV4 7AL
024 7652 4524
Visit Site - Tickets
- £12.50 (£10 conc) + bkg
- Series
- Portico Quartet Tour
- 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 its unique, beautiful sound. Their dance friendly brand of hook-laden, post-jazz was honed busking across Europe and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries, chill-out zones and has earned them a cult following. They have created an inimitable sound that has been compared to the Penguin Café Orchestra, E.S.T. and The Cinematic Orchestra amongst others.
“Try to imagine the coolest film never made. We mean really cool. Steve McQueen and Samuel L, on ‘Easy Rider’ choppers, in a French film-noir spy film, infiltrating a Yakuza Samurai cult. Portico Quartet would provide the soundtrack” Channel 4.com
“Fresh, fun and different” Jazzwise
“A strikingly original sound” The Times
Daughter of Richard Thompson, singer/songwriter Kami Thompson is based between London and Manhattan, and recently toured with Bonnie Prince Billy. Sister of the critically acclaimed Teddy Thompson, she's moved confidently in family waters, taking part in the Thompson and Wainwright Family Christmases, celebrating Leonard Cohen with Hal Willner, and cutting her own figure with a distinctive mix of beautiful vocals, loud guitars and an unflinchingly direct lyrical bent.
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