Portico Quartet – Terrain (Extended) – Live in Studio One
€52.90
Portico Quartet – Terrain (Extended) – Live in Studio One
Format:LP
Genre: Jazz
Label: Gondwana
Terrain (Extended) features an expanded version of the composition re-arranged for the Portico Quartet Ensemble – a subtle re-configuration of the band that features a string quartet – and which allowed for the composition’s deeper textures and resonances to be fully explored, along the way expanding the dialogue between tranquillity and a subtly unsettling melancholy, that makes Terrain such a beautiful, powerful piece.
The three parts, Terrain I, II & III are all subtly different, but a short, repeating rhythmic motif is the starting point in all three movements. There is a sense of a shared journey to all these pieces; they move through different worlds, with a sense of horizontal movement that lends the music real momentum. Terrain I was the first piece they worked on and it started with a hang drum pattern, improvised by Bellamy, who added cymbals and synthesiser. From there on it grew, Wyllie adding saxophone, another synthesiser section, strings. The resulting album presents a profound dialogue, both between the composers and between tranquillity and a subtly unsettling melancholy, which makes Terrain such a powerful new statement. One that speaks to both our interior and exterior worlds, to our own personal landscape, to our Terrain.
In stock
Portico Quartet – Terrain (Extended) – Live in Studio One
€52.90