Portico Quartet
UK
Formed: 2005
Years Active: 2000
Genres: Jazz, International
Styles: Modern Creative, Free Jazz, Worldbeat, Avant-Garde Jazz
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The Portico Quartet is a contemporary modern jazz and ethnic fusion ensemble from South London, England. Formed in 2005, the band was initially inspired to play via founding member Duncan Bellamy's purchase of an exotic yet contemporary instrument, the hang, at a music festival. The hang, invented in 2000 in Switzerland, is a metallic lap drum with clamped shells, the melodious sound of which resembles both a steel drum and Balinese metallaphone. Where the quartet's influences clearly reference modern jazz and African music, the trance-like son...
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Influenced by
- Jan Garbarek (79)
- Philip Glass (75)
- Weather Report (35)
- Steve Reich (19)
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