Portico Quartet Monument 9/1/09  The Guardian claimed that El Khatib

 The Guardian claimed that El Khatib was like “if Joe Strummer came back as an angry young Filipino-Palestinian American

The rest of these songs are simple one take snapshots into my process of research - essentially conversations with myself

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which Doerell found in a hidden room in his house served as soundsource

Portico Quartet Monument 9/1/09  The Guardian claimed that El KhatibMonument, the electronic driven follow up to their acclaimed ambient minimalist suite Terrain, presenting the band at their most direct. It's rare that a band releases two albums within six months of each other, rarer too that while both are so different, they are both as epochal in terms of the band's output as Terrain and Monument are to Portico Quartet. The irony is that Monument, a stripped back, intentionally direct album, was the album that the