Living Fields
Portico Quartet · 2015
36 min · 9 tracks · jazz
A meditative blend of jazz, electronic textures, and acoustic elements creates an immersive soundscape throughout the album.
Top tracks — play these first
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Living Fields Start here — The title track opens the album with lush soundscapes that set the tone for the entire listening experience and showcases the band's signature blend of electronic and acoustic sounds.
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Atacama — This track features expansive textures that evoke the vastness of the Atacama Desert, illustrating the band's ability to create vivid imagery through sound.
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Memory of Newness — Closing the album, this track encapsulates themes of nostalgia and discovery with its intricate arrangements and reflective melodies, leaving a lasting impression.
Elevation
Our rating, out of 100 — and why.
AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.
InstrumentalThe album's immersive soundscapes and intricate interplay between instruments create a compelling listening experience.
What we noticed
- The album opens with a title track that features layered textures, gradually introducing melodic elements over a steady pulse.
- Several tracks utilize a call-and-response structure between different instruments, creating a dialogue that evolves throughout the piece.
- The final track employs a slow fade-out, leaving the listener with an ambient soundscape that lingers after the music ends.
- Composition 25% of the score
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7/10
- Craft 20% of the score
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8/10
- Durability 25% of the score
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7/10
- Distinctiveness 18% of the score
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7/10
- Sequencing 12% of the score
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8/10
the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics
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whether it rewards returning to it
whether it sounds like itself
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Is this for you?
Good fit if you like
- steady exploration of themes
- ethereal soundscapes for contemplation
- intricate rhythms inviting focus
- short tracks for reflective moments
Maybe skip if you
- seeking high-energy engagement
- prefer standalone single tracks
Where this album fits
- In the catalog
- Critical Peak — Innovative fusion of genres marks a high point in their artistic development.
- Career context
- Released in 2015, Living Fields was Portico Quartet's fourth studio album, following their acclaimed release, Portico (2012). At this point in their career, they had solidified their unique style, merging jazz with ambient and electronic influences while continuing to evolve their sound and instrumentation.
- Stylistic neighbors
- GoGo Penguin· Snarky Puppy· Nils Frahm
Tracklist
- 1 Living Fields Start here 3:11
- 2 101 4:45
- 3 Where You Are 1:41
- 4 Atacama 4:59
- 5 Colour Fading 4:51
- 6 Dissolution 1:29
- 7 Bright Luck 3:45
- 8 Brittle 5:38
- 9 Memory of Newness 6:14
If this landed
Records by other artists that run on the same instinct.
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