Serious

Hot on the heels of two sold-out shows at the London Jazz Festival 2011, Portico Quartet step out on a UK tour with their third, self-titled album, due for release on Real World Records in early 2012.

Melting together Burial-inspired beats, fiery saxophones and ethereal hang with a very modern kind of jazz improv, their translucent music can both mesmerise and thrill.

'Genuinely innovative…there isn’t a band that sounds remotely like them.' Observer

'They feed on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming cavernous sound-world that is exotic and hypnotic.' Mojo

Support comes from Matthew Halsall.

Ruins, from new album Portico Quartet, due for release January 2012:

Clipper, from Isla:

Knee-Deep In The North Sea: