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portico quartet - ruins

fans of emancipator and bonobo’s recent works — you’re making an enormous mistake if you don’t click this video. this lush instrumental comes courtesy of a london four-piece that named themselves after an italian columned awning they once had to perform underneath during a rainstorm. ‘ruins’ is a fluid and evocative piece, accentuated by the band’s use of two hang drums, which are gorgeous pitched percussion instruments that sound like a flugelhorn to the more trumpet-like tones provided by steel pans; certainly comparable, but more dark, mellow, and affecting. this elegiac work displays a considerable amount of maturity for an ensemble made up of young musicians, who’ve already belied their respective ages by winning time out magazine’s jazz album of the year award with their 2007 debut, knee-deep in the north sea.