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

BRIAN KELLY is an award-winning composer, pianist, and recording artist producing contemporary instrumental and solo piano music. He has released four albums and many singles of his own music, and has performed his music in world-renowned concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall and the Place des Arts in Montreal. His music has been featured in film and in television shows on the Travel Channel, BBC Worldwide, MTV, and NBA Entertainment; and on in-flight programming on many airlines, including United, JetBlue, Continental, and Southwest.  

He has received numerous awards for his music, including Recording of the Year in the 2019 Indie Music Channel Awards, Best Solo Piano Album in the 2019 Enlightened Piano Radio Awards, First Prize in the 2016 USA Songwriting Competition, multiple Silver Medals in the Global Music Awards, as well as awards and/or nominations from Keyboard Magazine, Independent Music Awards, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Just Plain Folks Awards, SoloPiano.com, and more.  He has published two sheet music songbooks of his piano compositions. Brian is a voting member of the Recording Academy (the Grammy® Awards), a member of the Indie Collaborative, and is affiliated with BMI.

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Established 1999. Releasing newfangled and archival sounds. 

OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

Integrated Creative Support for Jazz: Audience Relationship Management (ARM) for musicians, bands, orchestras, record labels, Jazz promoters and venues

None of the components that make up ARM are fundamentally new or pioneering. What makes ARM unique is a scalable recipe for support of the music industry and musicians in particular. Rather than applying a generic digital marketing blueprint to promote an artist, an album release or a music organisation, we combine the most effective components that best tell your story and optimise all creative output to engage your specific audience.

Co-operations and clients include The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Basho Music, UNIVERSAL Classics & Jazz, E1 Music, Joe Locke, The London Symphony Orchestra, Terreon Gully, Claire Martin OBE, Motéma Music, Alma Records, Mike Lindup (Level 42), London Jazz News, Busby Productions, Tommy Smith, Neil Percy (LSO), National Youth Jazz Collective, Florian Hoefner, Jellymould Jazz, Callum Au and more...

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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