Portico Quartet Monument 9/1/09 neo-classical

neo-classical

The rest of these songs are simple one take snapshots into my process of research - essentially conversations with myself

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 The Guardian claimed that El Khatib was like “if Joe Strummer came back as an angry young Filipino-Palestinian American

all the originals are purposefully languid

Portico Quartet Monument 9/1/09 neo-classicalMonument, the electronic driven follow up to their acclaimed ambient minimalist suite Terrain, presenting the band at their most direct. It's rare that a band releases two albums within six months of each other, rarer too that while both are so different, they are both as epochal in terms of the band's output as Terrain and Monument are to Portico Quartet. The irony is that Monument, a stripped back, intentionally direct album, was the album that the