Portico Quartet are four young London musicians who live together and create ambient, instrumental music based around the resonant chiming of the Swiss-made hang. Their fresh, signature sound is evocative, cerebral yet poignant, a music that seems pleasingly familiar yet thrillingly new: post-jazz, world music from the future, defying categorization.Recorded at Abbey Road by producer John Leckie (Radiohead, Baaba Maal, Spiritualised), ISLA was sculpted with loops, real-time electronics and overdubs. The band"s influences include Steve Reich, Miles Davis, Philip Glass & Toumani Diabate.