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About Portico Quartet
Hometown
London, England
Formed
2005
Genre
Jazz
British foursome Portico Quartet’s music has been labeled post-rock, ambient jazz, and any number of other compound subgenres, but there’s no denying they’ve forged a style all their own. The band came together in London in 2005 with percussionist Nick Mulvey, saxophonist/keyboardist Jack Wyllie, bassist Milo Fitzpatrick, and drummer/electronics man Duncan Bellamy, who were all schoolmates at the time. They released their first album, Knee-Deep In the North Sea, in 2007; the atmospheric, instrumental LP was duly nominated for a Mercury Prize and the band were off to the races. They shifted to Peter Gabriel’s high-profile Real World label for the 2009 follow-up, Isla. Mulvey split to follow a solo path in 2011, with Keir Vine coming in to take his place for the band’s self-titled 2012 album. In 2015, they drastically reconstituted themselves for Living Fields, employing guest vocalists, relatively conventional song structures, and more electronic beats than ever, and going by simply Portico. But the band shifted back toward their earlier sound and name for subsequent releases.
Members of Portico Quartet include, or have included, Nick Mulvey, Duncan Bellamy, Jack Wyllie and more.
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