Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, Mercury Prize nominated Portico Quartet have created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of five lauded studio albums and one EP.

From the band’s 2007 breakthrough Knee-Deep in the North Sea, and the John Leckie produced Isla in 2010, to the self-titled recording Portico Quartet in 2012, the heralded Art In The Age Of Automation in 2017 and the critically acclaimed Memory Streams in 2019, each album has seen the band expand its palate or explore new trajectories. 

"Portico Quartet continue to plough their own furrow on their gorgeous new album Memory Streams" Bleep

The new album out now: 'I Inside the Old Year Dying'

http://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardying/

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Established 1999. Releasing newfangled and archival sounds. 

 Fusing classic British guitar pop with Motown and Stax grooves..the missing link between the Arctic Monkeys and the golden age of doo-wop – The Guardian

The world is theirs for the seducing – Evening Standard

A talent for ska-inflected, hook-filled rock ¬– Sunday Times hottest download

Various Cruelties is the musical alias of the prodigiously talented Liam O’Donnell – a teenage Strokes fan with a sweetly soulful voice and a head full of classic soul standards, equally in thrall to the ‘New York cool’ of Richard Hell, Percy Sledge and Orange Juice.
Born in London to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, and a distant relative of Oscar Wilde, O’Donnell moved to Leeds at an early age where he spent his teenage years following the well-trodden ‘indie’ path - summer bank holidays at the Leeds festival and a record collection full of Verve and Stone Roses albums. Yet and early taste for the soul-classics made him realise musically there existed a world beyond. 

Moving to London, it proved a struggle to escape the the ‘singer-songwriter’ tag.  A booking at a Communion night in Brighton proved to be a turning point – realising he had no desire to tread the well-worn ‘troubadour’ path and inspired by recently supporting the Villagers, Liam decided to do what he wanted; ditch performing under his own name and, inspired by an Ed Ruscha exhibition, start working under the Various Cruelties tag.


<b>Gary Clark Jr </b>
Warner Records
Austin TX

Le duo de chant A tue-tête croise différents styles d’Amérique du Sud et d’Europe pour composer des chants et chansons d’aujourd’hui. Force et fragilité des voix à nu, timbres multiples, paroles joueuses glissant du français à l’espagnol, rythmes agrémentés de percussions corporelles… sont les éléments du voyage.
 A tue-tête vient de sortir un album entièrement dédié aux chants afro-colombiens : bullerengue, currulao, bereju - refondus pour deux voix et percussions corporelles.

Contact us : eric.boxerrecordings@gmail.com Times changed in 2002. So did we. And we moved on - at first it was just a hobby (Mehrwert Records), now it has become our job. The responsibility we feel towards our artists made this step necessary. At the start there was a one-sided promo-12. Frank Martiniqs club hit Adriano became Boxer Sports first release. 100 releases later Eric Eltrons and Beatschubiger's club-oriented record labels attracts a steadily growing community of fans and artists worldwide. Recent playlists and frequent demands for licenses prove how well the label works in spite of promoting unknown artists at the beginning. Boxer Sports & Kickboxer musically sophisticated label discography includes international signings like DUSTY KID, Extrawelt, Delon & Dalcan, Rodriguez Jr, Kolombo, Pig&Dan, Matzak, Paul Nazca (France), Shirakura (Japan), Duoteque, Johan Fortmeijer, Phonogenic (Scandinavia), Ekkohaus, Steve Lawler & Audiofly (UK), Stratos (Greece), Zentex (Portugal), The Shock (USA), Maximilian Skiba (Poland), as well as German artists such as Patrick Chardronnet, Frank Martiniq, Wessling&Schrom, Ron Flatter or Goldfish & der Dulz among others. In 2008 we will work hard on the label to serve you some nice surprises & great music. And by the way. KICKBOXER will move your ass too. The fantastic cover art is done by oli funke from "the pixelz"! You need more infos ? Follow us on Instgram too, 2021 - we‘re still ON!!!!!!

Vanguard Records, part of Concord Bicycle Music’s Fantasy Label Group, is one of the world’s leading independent record labels. Its eclectic roster of quality artists includes Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Switchfoot, O.A.R., Flogging Molly, Parachute, Sallie Ford, Matt Nathanson, Chris Isaak, Barenaked Ladies, Greg Laswell, Trevor Hall, Indigo Girls, and more. It’s rich history of catalog artists features Levon Helm, Merle Haggard, Joan Baez, Mindy Smith, Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, Junior Wells, John Fahey, to name a few.

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