This song is definitely one of the best things I ever heard in my entire life. And I have listened to a lot of overwhelming music... But this is very very very high. Pure energy... Takes you to places one rarely has the chance to go.
Takes me back to the progressive jazz of Soft Machine and Bill Bruford's Earthworks, tracks like The Soft Weed Factor and Chloe and the Pirates on Soft Machine 6.
I'm so deeply happy to have discovered your work last month. I've bought four of your Masterpieces Album straight away. Love from Strasbourg, in France. Carole
Es una especie de orgasmo auditivo. Una de las mejores piezas del jazz de la nueva época. Muy agradecido de escuchar esta pieza en éstos tiempos. Saludos desde Tonalá, Chiapas, México
This is absolutely fantastic, gives me a lot of hope that there are fellow musicians pushing the boundaries of rhythm ! This kind of reminds me of Jan Garbarek's style, mixed with Steve Reich. My best wishes to you Portico Quartet Guys, you've got yourselves a new Ecuadorian fan !
Saw them last year in London, reluctantly on a friends birthday after only seeing this video, which is top of the page when you search for them on youtube. This video was/still is very unimpressive. It (the gig) was one of the best of my life. It was the best of my life.
@jazzpolice1 One of the things I was interested in is that we are talking Western/European tuning here; some music, such as gamelan music is played in a pentatonic scale where each interval is spread roughly equal to one-fifth of an octave,quite alien to Western ears. I also wondered if someone has perfect pitch will any music other than that in perfect concert pitch sound 'wrong' to someone who claims to have perfect pitch?
what theyre doing right here technically is very though, they are having to play in confinment while synching with the other bandmates through the headphone, what a bunch of talented individuals!
I know what you mean about this track, but it a) makes a lot more sense in the context of the album and b) gets better on further listening. Its not really representative of the rest of the album. When I saw them Nick said it basically came from an experiment whereby they attempted to play with 'just their hands' instead of their heads... Listen to the album in its entirety, I think if you liked Knee Deep you'll still very much enjoy Isla. In my opinion, it's not a step in the wrong direction.
@ZomBloke Well I think is actually a different colour... at the begining of drums, drums are not making time, hang drums are doing that.... drums are just some stuff being blowed through the room... like numbers or something.... Then it comes into time.... and becomes a segment.... That's what I had intepretaded
Didn't want to offend you, it's just that I have been through that a lot lately. I mean aside from liking it or not, nobody can possibly deny that the style of the new album is completely different from the first. I loved that style, and now there is only one song that is similar. And what you just said is the same everyone keeps telling me when one of my bands/artists change their style: It's a progression. It may be but it's still moving away form what I loved to something I don't.
Seems kind of contentious for some reason, this piece or this group. As far as I am concerned I love what I love regardless of whether it's perfectly in time/tune (imperfection is surely part of the human condition anyway, and to my mind perfection can be too clinical or sterile) or what random label it has foisted on it. Is this jazz? Does it matter? It's music is all. Personally, and this is the first I've heard of the Portico Quartet, I love it!
@jazzpolice1 I agree, it's a useful marketing tool, but can also be restrictive when it comes to people's idea that they 'don't like jazz', you can end up closing your ears to a lot of good music, plus there are always those who do not agree with the label that's hung on them (Mingus springs to mind, he made 'Mingus music') and fear being pigeonholed for the restrictions the industry might put on them
@ZomBloke I think the guy with the barbecue is playing one song, and the guy with the proper drums is playing a different song. It's called "Japanese vertical music stacking". They do it in Tokyo nightclubs to save space, but you'd know that if you were a proper drummer.
When I finished listening I thought "This sounded more like they played it for their own enjoyment than for the listeners". The second album can't even begin to compare to the first. It's completely different style, and I have been through that with several bands/artists and I'm sick of argueing with other fans telling me that the new style is just as good as the old. Turns out that with this new album I'm not a fan of PQ anymore, but a fan of their first album. As sad as it is.
I have no idea how anybody gets hang drums. But everyone that has one is wicked good at them. Must be aliens giving the correct amount of hang drums to the chosen ones.
@jazzpolice1 Haven't you heard of John Laughter's concept of the thousand-note scale (attach big smiley here!!), or whatsisname's scale based on a tritave rather than an octave (big smiley) or just (rather than equal temperament) intonation?? I can understand someone with perfect pitch maybe having a problem, but otherwise what is 'in tune' anyway? Pop music is autotuned/pitch-bent away from concert pitch which must really irk those with perfect pitch, poor buggers
Hehehehe. It is pretty obvious that the off-tempo is harmonious. I would recommend some listening to The Animal Collective to shake off tempo and melody preconceptions.
i assure you they are the real deal... i can certainly believe that they got three, what i find bizarre is that the average street busker can get two!!
Ah, OK, fair enough. I wasn't looking for an argument. Just saying. Maybe there is a sense in which they played it more for their own enjoyment - personally though I enjoy that, so can't really separate the two! I feel the new album works very well as a complete piece, and marks a progression of their style, rather than a deviation away from it. Just my opinion. But I shan't say anymore for fear of upsetting your gut.
This studio has make fantastic job and you have upload the video with maximum quality 360? Only the microphones in this video has 20.000 euro.... Plz... upload again this song in HD. ps1 : (Sorry for my very bad english) ps2: Fantastic band!!!
@ZomBloke as a drummer myself, I appreciate the need to be 'imaginative' and make myself heard in a piece, however sometime drumming is purposely made to take a back seat in a composition in order for the audience to focus on other parts, like the double bass or sax in this piece. Also, it does come into time. I appreciate your view and can very much see why you are saying what you are saying, I'm just saying that I disagree.
This song is definitely one of the best things I ever heard in my entire life. And I have listened to a lot of overwhelming music... But this is very very very high. Pure energy... Takes you to places one rarely has the chance to go.
I have it playing every morning when I'm waking up. Special experience, indeed.
What a trance?!! And those few bass notes felt like a warm blanket.
Takes me back to the progressive jazz of Soft Machine and Bill Bruford's Earthworks, tracks like The Soft Weed Factor and Chloe and the Pirates on Soft Machine 6.
I love how the bass player rarely plays in this song, he dances around and in between the rhythm, letting it breath.
I'm so deeply happy to have discovered your work last month. I've bought four of your Masterpieces Album straight away. Love from Strasbourg, in France. Carole
Es una especie de orgasmo auditivo.
Una de las mejores piezas del jazz de la nueva época.
Muy agradecido de escuchar esta pieza en éstos tiempos.
Saludos desde Tonalá, Chiapas, México
saludos desde Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas!
@@andresaguilar327 Saludos de Tonalá Chiapas 🙋🏾♂️
That drumming precision is unbelievable...
sorry to have missed this for so long.
very moving sounds. it gives me a place to be.
WOW, i consider them to be an answer to all of my jazz cravings
Really gives some philip glass-ish vibes 🎹🎷
This is still one of the best pieces of Music I ever heard and that's why I need to come back here every so often...
This is absolutely fantastic, gives me a lot of hope that there are fellow musicians pushing the boundaries of rhythm ! This kind of reminds me of Jan Garbarek's style, mixed with Steve Reich. My best wishes to you Portico Quartet Guys, you've got yourselves a new Ecuadorian fan !
Saw them last year in London, reluctantly on a friends birthday after only seeing this video, which is top of the page when you search for them on youtube.
This video was/still is very unimpressive.
It (the gig) was one of the best of my life.
It was the best of my life.
Briliant ambient work! More human than human...
You guys have come a long way. Much love and respect, Your music is absolutely beautiful
This song expands my heart! Thank You!
reminds me of listening to the old jazz band oreg0n back in the 70s with ralph towner
impeccable taste in festivals and music i must say!
you guys are too good! Please visit the SF bay area! (California)
saw these guys at the big chill few years ago, and bumped into them whilst watching flying lotus - they are ace live
Just gorgeous music. I wish this piece was at least twice as long.
so beautiful i really love it
from the album "Isla" - fantastical, especially the Steel Drums !!!!
So beautiful...My mind is so calm because of this...
Enamorarse no es un asunto exclusivo del corazón, es también un proceso intelectual, y esta música avala mi teoría.
I just saw PQ performing live on Arte Tv. They are brilliant.
The double-bass was amazing
@bbyrd009b "helplessly groovy" = awesome way to describe it!
You can find a good quality version on Amazon. The album is called Isla.
wonderfully woven and structured :)))
love this music! very talented musicians
merveilleux 🏹💛 merci infiniment pour ce voyage
gratitude. thank you for this wonderful travel 💛
@Hannes2k Hey! It is a curved soprano sax. The sopranino is even smaller!
This is amazing
Hey hey hey , excellent !
i suggest that anyone who can't get this beat give it a few more listens or put it on as background music
just amazingly beautiful
@jazzpolice1 One of the things I was interested in is that we are talking Western/European tuning here; some music, such as gamelan music is played in a pentatonic scale where each interval is spread roughly equal to one-fifth of an octave,quite alien to Western ears. I also wondered if someone has perfect pitch will any music other than that in perfect concert pitch sound 'wrong' to someone who claims to have perfect pitch?
You amaze me.
wow..... genial! excelentes músicos y están muy lindos
Best European jazz since Eberhard Weber's 'Silent Feet'.
what theyre doing right here technically is very though, they are having to play in confinment while synching with the other bandmates through the headphone, what a bunch of talented individuals!
Absolutley beautiful
Hey Chester, YOU are more than right. People just do not get it. The are not able to cope with something that is not 4/4 and beats on 1 and 3 :)
γεμάτο χρώματα... τέλειο!
i like it ... very very very good ...
Love this soundscape !!
I know what you mean about this track, but it a) makes a lot more sense in the context of the album and b) gets better on further listening. Its not really representative of the rest of the album. When I saw them Nick said it basically came from an experiment whereby they attempted to play with 'just their hands' instead of their heads... Listen to the album in its entirety, I think if you liked Knee Deep you'll still very much enjoy Isla. In my opinion, it's not a step in the wrong direction.
@ZomBloke Well I think is actually a different colour... at the begining of drums, drums are not making time, hang drums are doing that.... drums are just some stuff being blowed through the room... like numbers or something.... Then it comes into time.... and becomes a segment.... That's what I had intepretaded
Em Braga, Portugal, 23.03.2010. Muito bom!!!!
Didn't want to offend you, it's just that I have been through that a lot lately. I mean aside from liking it or not, nobody can possibly deny that the style of the new album is completely different from the first.
I loved that style, and now there is only one song that is similar. And what you just said is the same everyone keeps telling me when one of my bands/artists change their style: It's a progression. It may be but it's still moving away form what I loved to something I don't.
J'adore , ils sont vraiment très fort
Every time I watch this video I feel like I'm on a tram in a strange city because of the partitions in the music studio 🙂
@Septicaemia it has been done many times in a jazz context before.
Seems kind of contentious for some reason, this piece or this group. As far as I am concerned I love what I love regardless of whether it's perfectly in time/tune (imperfection is surely part of the human condition anyway, and to my mind perfection can be too clinical or sterile) or what random label it has foisted on it. Is this jazz? Does it matter? It's music is all. Personally, and this is the first I've heard of the Portico Quartet, I love it!
Tremendous! Thank you!
@jazzpolice1 I agree, it's a useful marketing tool, but can also be restrictive when it comes to people's idea that they 'don't like jazz', you can end up closing your ears to a lot of good music, plus there are always those who do not agree with the label that's hung on them (Mingus springs to mind, he made 'Mingus music') and fear being pigeonholed for the restrictions the industry might put on them
so beautiful
Hermoso y simple ♫
Excelente!
really beautiful :)
@ZomBloke no its supposed to be like that, emulating the sloppiness of train on the line
@jazzpolice1 with all do respect, what do you know?
@ZomBloke I think the guy with the barbecue is playing one song, and the guy with the proper drums is playing a different song. It's called "Japanese vertical music stacking". They do it in Tokyo nightclubs to save space, but you'd know that if you were a proper drummer.
@sartre13 It`s called hang drum
Fantastico estado de suave y profundo trance
Best Song of the 21st Century so far...
Incredible !
@Underhill182 you are right once again...however he cant keep his own time.,,,its all about time man...no harm feelings
When I finished listening I thought "This sounded more like they played it for their own enjoyment than for the listeners".
The second album can't even begin to compare to the first. It's completely different style, and I have been through that with several bands/artists and I'm sick of argueing with other fans telling me that the new style is just as good as the old. Turns out that with this new album I'm not a fan of PQ anymore, but a fan of their first album. As sad as it is.
i can see steve reich influence ;) nice one!
@Underhill182 you are right..he does play intentionally another groove but he doesnt do it good .it takes some time to blend in...
four songs in one!
I have no idea how anybody gets hang drums. But everyone that has one is wicked good at them. Must be aliens giving the correct amount of hang drums to the chosen ones.
they're incredibly easy to play...
@jazzpolice1 Haven't you heard of John Laughter's concept of the thousand-note scale (attach big smiley here!!), or whatsisname's scale based on a tritave rather than an octave (big smiley) or just (rather than equal temperament) intonation?? I can understand someone with perfect pitch maybe having a problem, but otherwise what is 'in tune' anyway? Pop music is autotuned/pitch-bent away from concert pitch which must really irk those with perfect pitch, poor buggers
Hehehehe. It is pretty obvious that the off-tempo is harmonious. I would recommend some listening to The Animal Collective to shake off tempo and
melody preconceptions.
wesh t'as vu c'est trop cool !
Love it, thanking you.....
@Septicaemia it's called polyrhythm
Like everyone,they can do whatever they want.For those who want to make something ‘sloppy’,just do it…and let do.
Great, great, great
i assure you they are the real deal... i can certainly believe that they got three, what i find bizarre is that the average street busker can get two!!
im at a loss for words.
Let's not fight. To some people, jazz sounds wrong even when it's really, really good.
im almost crying because i cant feel the beat between the hang-drums and the other drums :(
Reminds me of Glassworks by Philip Glass
I'm guessing the three hang drums togeher make a chromatic scale possible...?
u get meee!
Magical build Up ... more Bass - Ace xXx
Ah, OK, fair enough. I wasn't looking for an argument. Just saying. Maybe there is a sense in which they played it more for their own enjoyment - personally though I enjoy that, so can't really separate the two! I feel the new album works very well as a complete piece, and marks a progression of their style, rather than a deviation away from it. Just my opinion. But I shan't say anymore for fear of upsetting your gut.
Does anyone know what this instrument is wich looks like a bastard between steeldrum and cymbal is? We see it at the beginning.
Magnifique
I definitely like the style of the first album more. This isn't bad, but it's not Portico Quartet as I hoped it would continue.
This studio has make fantastic job and you have upload the video with maximum quality 360?
Only the microphones in this video has 20.000 euro....
Plz... upload again this song in HD.
ps1 : (Sorry for my very bad english)
ps2: Fantastic band!!!
Amazing...
(trad = ammazza...)
Tzzzzz! quiero un pinchi contrabajo chingau!
If you think that's hard, you should listen to Maurice Ravel's Bolero
@ZomBloke as a drummer myself, I appreciate the need to be 'imaginative' and make myself heard in a piece, however sometime drumming is purposely made to take a back seat in a composition in order for the audience to focus on other parts, like the double bass or sax in this piece. Also, it does come into time. I appreciate your view and can very much see why you are saying what you are saying, I'm just saying that I disagree.
Oh duds 🔥 thks
unbelievable
Getting some Reich, some Penguin Cafe... lovely.