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artsit: Portico Quartet
album: Isla (2009)

The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of schoolfriends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, and play festivals and clubs. Yet what distinguishes them from dozens of other Hackney hopefuls is the way they sound -- a fresh, unclichéd resynthesis and reinvention of music that's both pleasingly familiar and thrillingly new, like World Music from the future. With largely acoustic resources -- percussion, bass and wind instruments -- they have conjured and refined a group signature that's immediately recognisable.

http://www.last.fm/music/Portico+Quartet
http://porticoquartet.com
http://www.myspace.com/porticoquartet