Next Stop is an Electronic album by Portico Quartet, originally released in 2022. On Gatefold: 2 pressings tracked.
About
Having collaborated as the London-based Portico Quartet for more than a decade, drummer Duncan Bellamy and saxophonist Jack Wyllie know how to maximize their time and effort. Their sessions for the 2021 album <i>Monument</i> were productive enough to have generated this compelling follow-up EP. Of the four contrasting songs, the title track is the most rhythmically intense, with long manipulated soprano sax sounds floating over Bellamy’s fast broken-beat patterns. On the opening “Captured Time,” Wyllie gets an almost trumpetlike tone from the soprano as string textures and rhythmic agitation swell around him. “Procession” begins in a piano-centered stillness, with breath elements and drones setting up a doleful, slowly pulsing elegy on tenor sax. “Youth,” also with Wyllie on tenor, has fat, sustaining synth-bass tones undergirding a reverberant and impassioned melody. Aesthetically, <i>Next Stop</i> is one with <i>Monument</i>, though it expands the scope of that previous achievement.
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Tracklist
- 1Captured Time4:24
- 2Next Stop6:41
- 3Procession3:27
- 4Youth5:08
Sound DNA
- Electronic
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Recorded at the same sessions as Monument.
Comes with a plain white polylined inner sleeve with a silver download code sticker.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Duncan BellamyDRUMS, BASS GUITAR, HANG DRUM, SYNTHESIZER, PIANO
- Francesca Ter-BergSTRINGS CELLO
- Jack WyllieSAXOPHONE, SYNTHESIZER, PIANO, ARRANGED BY
- Pete BennyDOUBLE BASS
- Simmy SinghVIOLIN, VIOLA
2 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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