Portico Quartet

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

PORTICO QUARTET “The darlings of the jazz/leftfield jazz scene” Big Chill website ‘Sound like nothing you’ve ever heard” Time Out “A phenomenon in the making” The Independent “A strikingly original sound."The Times Portico Quartet are four young musicians from South London who sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Living and playing together they describe their ethos as like an Indy band that plays post-jazz, and their unique sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to Radio 4 and Notion to BBC Music Magazine, and made them Time Out’s Jazz, Folk and World music album of the year. Portico Quartet are Jack Wylie (soprano Saxophone), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), Nick Mulvey (Hang and percussion) and Duncan Bellamy (drums and Hang), and it’s the mix of ethereal saxophone, flying saucer like Hang (imagine an otherworldly steel drum), clattering drums and earthy double-bass that gives their music it’s inimitable, beautiful sound. It was the chance purchase of the Hang by Duncan Bellamy, at a music festival, that inspired the young friends to start a band, and while their largely intuitive music references jazz and African music it’s the Hang inspired trance-like repetitive patterns of Duncan and Nick Mulvey that propel the band into stranger pastures: invoking Philip Glass and Steve Reich’s gamelan inspired minimalism. Their dance friendly, melodic brand of hook-heavy post-jazz was honed busking across Europe and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries and chill-out zones. A weekly session at the South Bank and residency at the Brixton Ritzy earned them a cult following and inspired London’s hippest jazz club, the Vortex, to start a label to release their music. Sessions on XFM and Radio 1 followed and a storming set at the Glastonbury Festival had Q hailing their ‘danceable chamber jazz soundscapes’ that ‘should make them a Glasto fixture’. Further performances this year include the Big Chill, Shoreditch, Brecon and London Jazz Festivals and the band return to the Vortex jazz club on August 27th. Portico Quartet, Knee-Deep In The Northsea, is out now on Babel/Vortex www.riotmanagement.co.uk for further information please contact kerstan mackness ph: 077756555573 email: [email protected] .

Copy Link

Recommended publications

Finding Turner Sims CONTACT US How to Book
TURNERTURNERSouthampton SIMSSIMS Southampton Turner Sims is provided by University of Southampton and gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England. [email protected] turnersims.co.uk SPRING SEASON 2020 Box Office 023 8059 5151 INSPIRING MUSIC Box Office 023 8059 5151 turnersims.co.uk KEVIN APPLEBY FOUR WAYS THAT YOU CAN WELCOME - A YEAR OF JOURNEYS SUPPORT OUR WORK... Like us Photo by Simon Weir by Photo Follow us @TurnerSims Subscribe Follow us on Instagram JOIN THE PIANO CIRCLE In the second half of our Year of Journeys we the range of his musical interests: from the might LEAVE A LegACY celebrate the musical pathways of current stars, of Sweden’s Västerås Sinfonietta in February Remember Turner Sims in your will and give Join with like-minded people who have a award winners and artists of the future. – featuring Lawrence as guest soloist alongside future generations the opportunity to enjoy passion for classical piano repertoire and cellist Paul Watkins – to the intimacy of string what makes the concert hall experience special Our Piano Series sees a welcome return for Paul duos with celebrated violinist Vilde Frang. contribute annually to help Turner Sims develop for you. Every legacy we receive ensures that Lewis with music by Beethoven and Schubert, and strengthen the Piano Series. Donate a gift of we can continue to excite, engage and inspire plus debut recitals from Beatrice Rana and Traditional music from Iran takes us on a stunning £1000 or over to ensure that the Turner Sims’ people of all ages and backgrounds through Joseph Moog.
[Show full text]
Portico Quartet Portico Quartet PR
Portico Quartet Portico Quartet Mercury nominated East Londoners release their third, self-titled, album. Real World Records - CDRWP186 - Release date: 30 January 2012 Portico Quartet still sound like nothing you ever heard before. The Mercury nominated East London based outfit’s unique music has expanded to embrace new sonic territories. Drawing on the inspiration of electronica, ambient, classical and dance music as they take their strange, beautiful, cinematic, future music to exciting new vistas where the inspiration of Burial, Mount Kimbie and Flying Lotus rubs shoulders with the textures of Arve Henriksen and Bon Iver and echoes of Steve Reich and Max Richter. But all underpinned by a shared joy in collective music making as the band push their inimitable music into the future. It’s a change that was brewing for some time. As anyone who saw Portico Quartet live throughout 2010 knew, the band had added a heady brew of live samples and loops to their arsenal, exploring a harder-edged sound that brought a more contemporary edge to their previously wholly acoustic music. It was a metamorphosis that was accelerated when the band’s original hang player, Nick Mulvey, left to explore his own musical muse earlier this year and the remaining members drummer Duncan Bellamy, bassist Milo Fitzpatrick and saxophonist Jack Wyllie started exploring the possibilities of sampling the hang and triggering it’s sounds from electronic pads, opening up a whole new way of utilising the instrument’s unique sound. It accelerated further when they invited keyboard player, and now hang player, Keir Vine (an old friend of Milo’s from Goldsmith’s University) to come on board.
[Show full text]
Th E S U N : Living with Our Star 28 N O V Em B
: 22.00 #SMLATES – THE SUN THE STAR OUR WITH LIVING 28 NOVEMBER 2018 18.45 18 LIFTS TOILETS STAIRCASES ACCESSIBLE TOILET INFO DESK CAFÉ / RESTAURANT CLOAKROOM TICKET DESK 0 SHOP 0 JAMES WATT AND OUR WORLD MAKING THE MODERN THE DINER WORLD BAR MISSION TO EXPLORING MERCURY: BEPICOLOMBO SPACE MAKING THE MODERN WORLD ENERGY HALL EXIT TOMORROW’S WORLD MODEL WALKWAY IMAX SUPERBUGS HANS RAUSING ENERGY LECTURE MAIN SHOP CAFÉ THEATRE EXHIBITION ROAD ENTRANCE EXHIBITION ROAD GROUP ENTRANCE TOUR DANCE INFORMATION HIGHLIGHTS TOUR SILENT DISCO MAKING A SUN ON EARTH! OF THE MUSEUM EXPLORING SPACE MAKING THE MODERN WORLD MEET AT THE INFORMATION DESK 18.45–21.40 18.45–21.30 (DROP IN) 19.30–20.00, 20.30–21.00 Whether you’re practising your moves or just Generating clean, abundant electricity from Follow one of our Volunteer Tour Guides on a in the mood to slam dunk the funk, grab a nuclear fusion, the Sun’s power source, whistle-stop tour of some of our most beloved headset, select your tunes and dance until is getting closer to reality. The United iconic objects and discover the untold stories you drop. Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham they hold. Entry £2 per person – tickets available in the Science Centre is leading a worldwide effort, Exploring Space gallery. Last entrance 21.30. developing the science and engineering TOUR needed to make a Sun on Earth. INTERACTIVE DEMO BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR TALK FLYING WITH ZEPHYR MEET AT THE INFORMATION DESK 15 MILLION DEGREES: 19.15–19.45, 20.00–20.30, 20.45–21.15 MAKING THE MODERN WORLD 18.45–21.30 (DROP IN) LUCIE GREEN IN Come and see where we treat and care for the CONVERSATION WITH museum’s collection of weird and wonderful Join engineers from Airbus to discover how objects.
[Show full text]
One 2 Watch Newm Usic
1S Friday, February 7, 2014 53 JIM By GALLETLY CHRIS By SWEENEY PHOENIX SOARING AHEAD OF UK TOUR ALTERED SKY gression from our previous release. It shows agrowth and maturity in By CHRIS SWEENEY WHO: Ana Nowosielska (vocals), Neil Ramsay (guitar), Richard our writing.” IPREDICT ariot —that’s the Passe (guitar), Ross Archibald Altered Sky are very much asum message from French maver- RISING star Nick Mulvey tries leaving acclaimed band (bass), Amy Blair (drums) of their five members and have a icks Phoenix, ahead of their Portico Quartet in 2011. WHERE: Glasgow string of gigs at The Barfly and The UK tour next week. not to use his grey matter Since then he’s taken it FOR FANS OF: Paramore, You Me 100Club in London and King Tut’s The lads are riding the step by step —with his debut album now andThe Garage in Glasgow behind too much —and admits he’s ready to go. At Six, Avril Lavigne crest of wave thanks to last JIM SAYS: Pumping out infectious them. They now have their sights He said: “I was never worried it wouldn’t on spreading the Altered Sky gos- album Bankrupt!. It rocketed abit of atwit. pop punk, Altered Sky formed in into the top five in the US and happen, Iknew it would happen —but I pel further afield. Ross added: “We all over Europe too. USUALLY, we review FLAPPY BIRD/ MarioBros-style pipes, with depth and exhaustive instruc- That’s why the impulsive singer’s knew it would take the time and steps it 2010, and are now amainstay of thinkour sound is very suited to the But they’ve never played games separately but the IRONPANTS gaps at differing heights.
[Show full text]
Properganda 0
Properganda 0 Properganda 0 SERENADE_PROPERGANDA_ART_A4-F.in1 1 8/8/08 01:19:00 Page 4 Main Features Original Spin with Kerfuffle Ralph McTell CONTENTS 5 Folk Reviews 6 Fellside Records featuring Rachel & Lillias Jack McNeill & Charlie Heys and The Maerlock 7 Drever, McCusker, Woomble Megson Folk Reviews Country/Americana Reviews elcome to the autumn/winter issue of Properganda, our 4 W first ever push-me-pull you edition. We had so much to tell Joan Baez you about that we had to put a cover at either end. This is the Art Garfunkel 5 month that Bellowhead and Also Drever, McCusker, Woomble Catherine Maclellan 6 release new albums into the world. In DMW’s case it’s their debut Signature Sounds and Six Shooter and we are lucky to have John McCusker Roddy Woomble as our 7 Up Round Review Hot Club Of Cowtown guest contributors for this issue. 8 Mile Miracle Hightone featuring Dave Alvin, We had a great summer around various festivals giving Properganda Buddy Miller and Tom RussellUp Round Review 0 out to the assembled masses and hopefully there will be a few Country/AmericanaWoomble Roddy Reviewsfrom Editorial Guest 4 more of you out there looking forward to this issue. It’s the usual Selection Track Muskers John 5 HELLO action packed affair, with even more pages than before. Even, if Blues Caravan and Rich Man’s War Man’s Rich and Caravan Blues 6 your picking up an issue for the first time you are most welcome. Blues Reviews Blues 7 As well as 48 individual reviews, there are more exclusive interviews The Portico Quartet Portico The 8 than ever before and some new contributors have signed up to The BBC Jazz Awards Jazz BBC The 9 bring you even wider coverage of the world of specialist music.
[Show full text]
Say Lou Lou: »Lucid Dreaming« (A Deux/Cosmos Music). Ab 10.4. Portico: »Living Fields« (Ninja Tune) the Lilac Time: »No
31 NEUE POP-ALBEN NEUE JAZZ-ALBEN Say Lou Lou: »Lucid Dreaming« Portico: »Living Fields« Stephan Abel: »The Windmills of (A Deux/Cosmos Music). Ab 10.4. (Ninja Tune) Your Mind« (Agogo Records) Durchs Blog-Univer- Als Portico Quartet Coole, erkennbare sum geistert ihr waren diese Briten Melodien, dezent Name seit einiger früher mit freigeisti- swingender Rhyth- Zeit. Im vergange- gem Jazz erfolg- mus. Zu seinem nen Jahr landeten reich. Zum Trio ge- 50. Geburtstag hat Say Lou Lou sogar schrumpft, kürzten Saxofon-Routinier auf der prestige- sie den Namen und Abel mit Wegge- trächtigen BBC-Talentliste. Erstaunlicher- erweiterten den Sound. Ihre erste Platte fährten eine Doppel-CD aufgenommen. weise erfüllt das Debütalbum der Zwil- nach dieser Wende bietet auf ein Mini- Unter anderem mit dem hervorragenden lingsschwestern die hohen Erwartungen. mum reduzierte Elektro-Balladen mit Hamburger Pianisten Buggy Braune und Ihre quirligen Elektro-Pop-Songs verzah- gespenstisch wummernden Bässen, dem amerikanischen Sänger Ken Norris nen erfrischend Italo-Disco mit Achtzi- dazu prominente Gastsänger wie Jamie als Gast spielt er Balladen – unange- gerjahre-New-Wave. Steve Kilbey, Chef Woon und Joe Newman von Alt-J. Der strengt und ein bisschen melancholisch. der australischen Band The Church und perfekte Soundtrack für besonders fins- Das ist Jazz ohne vertrackte Metren und Vater der beiden, dürfte stolz sein. tere Nächte. gewagte Chorusse, aber mit viel Herz. The Lilac Time: »No Sad Lead Belly: »The Smithsonian Folk - Rebecca Ferguson: »Lady Sings Songs« (Tapete). Ab 3.4. ways Coll« (Smithsonian Folkways) The Blues« (RCA) Nach einer kurven- Der Einfluss dieses Von der Talent- reichen Karriere war Blues- und Folk- show-Hölle in den es um den briti- Pioniers auf die Evergreen-Himmel, schen Barden und moderne Musik ist schrieb eine Zeitung Robbie-Williams- gewaltig: Die von über die Karriere Hitproduzenten Ste- ihm zur Gitarre vor- der 28-jährigen Bri- phen Duffy zuletzt getragenen Lieder tin, die bei einem ruhig geworden.
[Show full text]
Kasımda Tiyatro Başkadır Martı
Kasımda tiyatro başkadır İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı organizasyonu ile bu yıl 21’incisi den Thomas Ostermeier’in yorumuyla düzenlenecek olan İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali, 13-26 Kasım tarihleri ara- sahnelenecek. Festival, programında sında İstanbul’u dev bir sahneye çevirmeye hazırlanıyor. Festivalde, iki bu yıl Türkiye’den 13 yapım yer hafta boyunca, yurtdışından 6, Türkiye’den 13 oyun ve yan etkinlikler, alıyor. Festivalin ilk oyunu çağdaş 18 farklı mekânda tiyatroseverlerle buluşacak. Festival programındaki tiyatro sahnesinin dikkat çekici yö- tüm öğrenci biletleri 10 TL’den satışa sunulacak. 21. İstanbul Tiyatro netmenlerinden Serdar Biliş’in güncel Festivali bu yıl yurtdışından 6 tiyatro ve dans topluluğunu konuk ediyor. yorumu ile Çehov klasiği Martı, Pürtelaş Festivalde Antik Yunan tiyatrosunun efsanevi yönetmeni Theodoros Tiyatro prodüksiyonu ve güçlü oyuncu Terzopoulos’un kurucusu ve yönetmeni olduğu Attis Tiyatrosu, yedi kadrosuyla seyircisiyle buluşacak. 21. yıl aradan sonra Bir Daha ile bu yıl Onur Ödülü’nü alacak.... Kural İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali programında B Planı prodüksiyonu Sami Berat tanımayan koreografileriyle dünya çapında ses Marçalı’nın yazıp yönettiği öteki olmak, göçmenlik ve iletişim meseleleri getiren Fransız koreograf Angelin Preljocaj çevresinde kurguladığı oyunu Yuva, Semaver Kumpanya’dan yönetmen ise son eseri Fresk ile izleyici- lerle Volkan M. Sarıöz’ün rejisiyle Herman Koch’un aynı adlı romanından buluşacak. Ayrıca festival uyarlanan Akşam Yemeği, Bakırköy Belediye Tiyatroları’ndan kapsamında Shakespe- Ceren Ercan’ın yazdığı ve Yelda Baskın’ın yönettiği Seni are’in ölümsüz oyunu Seviyorum Türkiye ve Shakespeare III. Richard ise çağdaş ile oyunlar oynamayı seven Kemal tiyatro sahnesinin en Aydoğan’ın yönetiminde Fırtına da heyecan verici isimlerin- sahneleniyor. Martı Sorin Çiftliği’nde bir akşamüstü... oyun annesinin yüzünden yarıda kesilince Çiftliğin hemen yanı başındaki gölün Treplev ve Nina başta olmak üzere hayatları kıyısında hazırlanmış sahnede genç yazar savrulmaya başlayacaktır.
[Show full text]
Sign to Real World Records. Announce New Recording and Spring Tour Dates
Sign to Real World Records. Announce new recording and spring tour dates. + Crisis Hidden Gig on June 2 with Star Sailor and Bombay Bycyle Club Portico Quartet are four young musicians from London who sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Their strange, beautiful sound was honed busking at the South Bank in London and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries and chill-out zones. The band, who all live together in East London, describe their ethos as like an Indy band that plays post-jazz and their unique, hooky sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to Radio 4 as well as catching the ear of Real World Records head honcho Peter Gabriel. Their debut album Knee-Deep In The North Sea (Babel/Vortex records) was named Time Out’s Jazz, Folk and World music album of the year for 2007 and was one of the Nationwide Mercury Prize albums of the year for 2008 Portico Quartet signed to Real World Records in February 2009 and will record their eagerly anticipated second album and label debut with producer John Leckie (Doves, Radiohead, The Stone Roses) at the helm at Abbey Road in May. “We are delighted to be releasing Portico Quartet on Real World Records. They create environments with their own world of sounds, that are as stimulating as they are soulful " Peter Gabriel “We are all really delighted to be joining the Real World family and of course excited to be recording at Abbey Road with one of our favourite producers John Leckie”. Portico Quartet The band also tour in May with dates in Penzance, Constantine, Bristol, Plymouth, Brighton, Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry, Leeds and the Cheltenham and Bath jazz festivals.
[Show full text]
Gitarrist Mit Musikalischer Vision Nick Mulvey Aus England
1 SWR2 Musikpassagen Gitarrist mit musikalischer Vision Nick Mulvey aus England Von Marlene Küster Sendung: Sonntag, 03. Februar 2019 Redaktion: Anette Sidhu-Ingenhoff Produktion: SWR 2019 SWR2 Musikpassage können Sie auch im SWR2 Webradio unter www.SWR2.de und auf Mobilgeräten in der SWR2 App hören Bitte beachten Sie: Das Manuskript ist ausschließlich zum persönlichen, privaten Gebrauch bestimmt. Jede weitere Vervielfältigung und Verbreitung bedarf der ausdrücklichen Genehmigung des Urhebers bzw. des SWR. Kennen Sie schon das Serviceangebot des Kulturradios SWR2? Mit der kostenlosen SWR2 Kulturkarte können Sie zu ermäßigten Eintrittspreisen Veranstaltungen des SWR2 und seiner vielen Kulturpartner im Sendegebiet besuchen. Mit dem Infoheft SWR2 Kulturservice sind Sie stets über SWR2 und die zahlreichen Veranstaltungen im SWR2-Kulturpartner-Netz informiert. Jetzt anmelden unter 07221/300 200 oder swr2.de Die neue SWR2 App für Android und iOS Hören Sie das SWR2 Programm, wann und wo Sie wollen. Jederzeit live oder zeitversetzt, online oder offline. Alle Sendung stehen sieben Tage lang zum Nachhören bereit. Nutzen Sie die neuen Funktionen der SWR2 App: abonnieren, offline hören, stöbern, meistgehört, Themenbereiche, Empfehlungen, Entdeckungen … Kostenlos herunterladen: www.swr2.de/app 2 Musik Nick Mulvey: Juramidam „Gitarrist mit musikalischer Vision. Nick Mulvey aus England“ – heute das Thema. Am Mikrofon begrüßt Sie Marlene Küster. Nick Mulvey: Ich liebe die rhythmische Intensität, den so genannten Groove. Dabei spielen das repetitive Moment und der hypnotische Effekt eine Schlüsselrolle. Deshalb mag ich auch sehr gern die amerikanischen Komponisten Steve Reich und Phil Glass. Ich bin 2005 nach Marokko gefahren, um die Gnawa Musik zu erforschen. Denn diese Klänge haben dort die von mir bevorzugten Elemente: Hier stehen Basslinien, Perkussion und ein 6/8 Taktschema im Zentrum.
[Show full text]
RNCM NEW DESIGN.Indd
RNCM 09-12/17 September - December 2017 EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE 1 FRENCH CONNECTIONS From September through to July, we’ll be celebrating the music of France and its impact across the world. Our year-long festival will have French music at its heart, as we explore past and present connections with France and its great cultural centre, Paris. RNCM students are at the forefront of the programme and next Spring, they join together with students from the Paris Conservatoire for concerts in Manchester, London and Paris, as a future generation of international performers recreates the musical life of wartime past. For full details, go to www.rncm.ac.uk/frenchconnections where we’ll be adding more events over the coming weeks and months. 22 33 FRI 15 SEP // 7.30pm FRI 29 SEP // 6.30pm MON 02 OCT // 1.15pm WED 04 OCT // 7.30pm // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall // RNCM Concert Hall HIDDEN VOICE CARMEN IN 40 MONDAY MON 02 OCT // 7.30pm THE MUSIC OF // RNCM Theatre JOHN MCHUGH AND THE MINUTES RECITAL SERIES PROOF: WHAT MISHIMA QUARTET Georges Bizet Suite from Gaspar Cassadó Suite for solo TUBULAR BELLS FOR TWO DOES MATHS John McHugh and the Mishima Carmen cello Ask anyone who grew up in the 70s and they will be Quartet present Hidden SOUND LIKE? Clark Rundell, Jack Sheen Harriet Walker cello able to tell you exactly where they were when they Voice WITH MARCUS DU , a unique multi-media conductors fi rst heard Tubular Bells. Composed by Mike Oldfi eld composition based on the Johannes Brahms Wir Wandelten in 1973, the album was the fi rst release on Richard SAUTOY (mathematician) speech of people living with For the fi rst student Op 96 No 2 Branson’s fl edgling record label, Virgin Records.
[Show full text]
Portico Quartet Biography the Portico Quartet Are a Bunch of Guys in Their
Portico Quartet biography 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. Thanks to the use of the hang, a tuned percussion instrument bought on impulse at a music festival, they have a sound that is instantly attractive, yet uncompromisingly individual, and it’s this, combined with the cheerful eloquence of their performances, that has brought Portico Quartet a long way in a short time. The line-up of the band is Duncan Bellamy (drums), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), Nick Mulvey (hang and percussion) and Jack Wyllie (soprano, tenor saxophones and electronics). From a grassroots start in 2005, busking on the South Bank of London’s Thames, their reputation spread swiftly. They began to get paid bookings plus the odd festival, and they made a five-track CD to sell at gigs. In 2007 they signed a record deal to make a full length CD, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel/Vortex). This was a turning point: the album attracted attention from DJs, bloggers and critics of every stripe, and was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize alongside Rachel Unthank, The Last Shadow Puppets, Radiohead and Elbow – a win-win situation for credible newcomers like Unthank and Portico Quartet.
[Show full text]
Nick Mulvey Bringer Groovende Og Hypnotisk Singer/Songwriting Til Ideal Bar
2014-09-01 12:18 CEST Nick Mulvey bringer groovende og hypnotisk singer/songwriting til Ideal Bar VEGA præsenterer Nick Mulvey bringer groovende og hypnotisk singer/songwriting til Ideal Bar Den 28. november præsenterer den roste engelske singer/songwriter Nick Mulvey sine groovende og hypnotiske sange i Ideal Bar. Han var tidligere medlem af det Mercury Prize-nominerede jazz-band Portico Quartet, var på BBC liste over Sound of 2014 og er nu aktuel med sin solodebut. Som grundlæggende medlem af jazz-bandet Portico Quartet var Nick Mulvey i 2008 nomineret til en Mercury Prize, og efter han er i 2011 forlod bandet for at forfølge en solokarriere som singer/songwriter, har han været udvalgt til BBCs prestigiøse ”Sound of…”-liste tidligere i år. Rost debutalbum udkom i maj Efter udgivelsen af to ep’er, der begge var blevet positivt modtaget, udsendte Mulvey i starten af maj så sit første album under eget navn efter at have forladt Portico Quartet. Albummet, der bærer titlen First Mind, har fået flotte anmeldelser fra både store aviser og respekterede blogs, ikke mindst i hjemlandet. Avisen The Telegraph gav topkarakteren5/5 og skrev i anmeldelsen: ”His own songs have trance-like hooks, but also maintain momentum and evolve both musically and thematically. Like Paul Simon, he knocks out a lot of syllables, making conversational patterns of his lyrics.” Den engelske musikblog Line of Best Fit anmeldte albummet til 7,5/10 og gav det disse ord med på vejen: ”A total package of pop hooks, instrumental genius and gorgeous rhythms, Mulvey presents us with an intelligent record that demonstrates his passion for sounds outside of insular scenes.” Samlet set roses Nick Mulvey for at have skabt et album, der forener en lang række forskellige inspirationskilder igennem hans hypnotiserende og groovende spillestil, hvor flow og gentagelser er centrale virkemidler i sange, der er præget af originalitet og teknisk elegance.
[Show full text]