Portishead's Adrian Utley to release live album with 19 guitarist orchestra

Firstly Portishead frontwoman Beth Gibbons announced that she was releasing a new solo album, and now guitarist Adrian Utley is to do the same.

Utley performed ‘In C’ by minimalist composer Terry Riley (whose work is also currently being toured by the Kronos Quartet), at Bristol St. George’s Hall, with his Guitar Orchestra: 19 guitarists, four organs, and a bass clarinet- just 10 musicians short of the “desired” 35 purportedly called-for in Riley’s own directions. A recording of the show, which also featured John Parish and the Portishead’s live guitarist Jim Barr, will be printed by Invada- a label owned by the band’s instrumentalist, Geoff Barrow. It’s nothing if not a family affair.

Utley’s In C will be released on 30 September, while a date for Gibbons’ own LP is yet to surface. You can watch both of them perform with Portishead at Glastonbury, courtesy of the BBC, here, and see a preview of In C below:

[via The Quietus]