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

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Klassik und Jazz erfreuen sich immer größerer Beliebtheit. UNIVERSAL MUSIC Stars wie etwa Anna Netrebko oder Till Brönner unterstreichen diesen Trend und sind beste Beispiele für den Erfolg des umfassenden Engagements auf diesem Gebiet. 

Neben der intensiven Arbeit sowohl mit jungen Talenten als auch mit etablierten Künstlern entwickelt UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS & JAZZ als Marktführer in den jeweiligen Genres kontinuierlich neue, innovative Marketing- und Promotion-Strategien, um alternative und zeitgemäße Zugänge zur facettenreichen und spannenden Welt von Klassik und Jazz anzubieten. Die Unit baut hierfür nicht nur junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler auf und begleitet sorgfältig und verantwortungsvoll ihre musikalische Entwicklung, sondern sorgt vor allem auch kontinuierlich für die Erschließung und Pflege neuer Zielgruppen. Mit grenzüberschreitenden Projekten wie der „Yellow Lounge“, die Klassik an ungewöhnlichen Orten präsentiert, oder auch dem „Verve Club“, der die ganze Vielfalt des Jazz präsentiert, leistet UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS & JAZZ hier und auf manch anderem Gebiet seit langem wertvolle Pionierarbeit. Diese und weitere Aktivitäten bringen die unendliche Vielfalt der Genres einem stetig wachsenden Publikum näher, das musikalische Entdeckungen als Bereicherung seines Lebens zu schätzen weiß.

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.

BeRn

Website: www.bernmusic.ie

Singer/songwriter/guitarist and poet BeRn, calls her stuff ‘Frock’ – an eloquent mix of folk, punk angst, rock ‘n’ roll, feminism, ire, laughter and irrepressible spirit. Raw and uplifting, she takes to the stage with a fiery presence offering a heady mix of emotion and rebellion.

“A real colourful individual with her saucy, unusual, punky, spicy, joyful songs”

To date Bern has recorded 3 albums and a new EP: Tales from my Back Pocket, which had a U.S. release in Nashville, TN  in March 2019 and will have an Irish release @ The House Presents in Dublin on  May 3rd, 2019.

She is the founder of the critically acclaimed  Eastrogen Rising: a rebel cabaret, and is a core member of the new production Revolting Women: a rebel cabaret, which just finished a successful  4 night run in The Five Lamps Arts Festival on April 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th,  2019.

Revolting Women: a rebel cabaret is on again in The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, The Teachers’ Club, May 6th-11th @ 9:30pm with 2 Matinees @ 2:30pm on may 6th and 11th only.

BeRn wrote the title track ‘No Star Lesbian” for Outitude: a feature length documentary film, released in August 2018. The Film has shown in Gaze film Fest, Cork Indie Fest, Glasgow Independent Fest and will be showing in Kentucky, USA in May 2019:

The video for BeRn’s repeal the 8th song ‘Pope’ was chosen for the Dublin International short film and music video festival in October 2018. (see youtube link above for Pope video)

BeRn has opened for Martha Wainwright in San Francisco, played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The Copenhagen Songwriter’s Festival. Plus many venues: bars, pubs, theatres, house concerts and festivals in Ireland.

She has shared stages with Patti Smith, Shane McGowan, Indigo Girls plus many more…

BeRn is just back from Nashville, Tennessee where she played at the iconic Bluebird Cafe.

 

 
For more videos of BeRn’s live performances: http://www.youtube.com/user/getBeRned/videos

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Website: www.bernmusic.ie

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