Legendary command in certain circles Portishead from an English city of Bristol (Bristol, UK). The group name is a name of small town in 12 miles from the Bristol. It as is read to "Portishead".

Music of this group - a combination of jazz elements with characteristic lo-fi sounding of arrangements, and all it is necessary on structure trip-hop.

Many eminent musicians today speak about influence on the creativity of group.

The group has been formed in 1991 by multiinstrumentalist Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons. Later the former jazz guitarist Adrian Atli has joined them (Adrian Utley) which became the third constant participant of group. Cî time of basis Portishead have let out three studio albums and don't suffer haste in this business, as well as many other things trip-hop executors.

The certain mess in a discography is brought ostensibly by the third studio album of group under the name «Pearl». Actually it is an album «Empathy» groups Mandalay.

Music Portishead and creativity of others similar to it on style of groups associate with a genre "trip-hop" though groups avoid this term, giving reason it is attempts of mass media to categorize their creativity resistant to a categorization.

Not Portishead have invented trip-hop,but Massive Attack are pioneers of a genre, and nevertheless, without this group the biography trip-hopa would be much more boring. Hide review