GENRE:
Downtempo electronica, minimalist classical works for orchestra, concert music, opera and scores for contemporary dance, theatre, film and television.
MORE ABOUT:
Andrew Poppy is an eclectic artist whose music has been compared to Cabaret Voltaire and Philip Glass. Always mixing it up and moving between the studio and the concert hall, treading a path between down tempo electronica and the minimalist classical works for orchestra that shot him to notoriety almost 20 year ago.
He studied at Goldsmiths College and with John Cage and 1980 helped form The Lost Jockey the UK’s first minimalist orchestra. In 1984 he was signed to the maverick ZTT Records by Paul Morley where he continued to develop his own hybrid and irreverent approach to making music.
As well as performing live solo piano and electronics and with his own Staining Ensemble he has been busy writing concert scores. The BBC Concert Orchestra played Poppy alongside Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman and John Tavener at the Royal Festival Hall. Recent premieres include works for the Smith String Quartet, CoMA Ensemble, Mary Dullea, Darragh Morgan and the Crash.
As a creative collaborator he has made work with Julia Bardsley, Impact Theatre, Psychic TV, Claudia Brucken, Erasure, Royal Opera House, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Estonian National Male Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra…
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:
- “The Beating Of Wings” (ZTT, 1985)
- “Alphabed (A Mystery Dance)” (ZTT, 1987)
- “Recordings” (Bitter + Twisted Records, 1992)
- “Rude Bloom” (Artgallery, 1995)
- “Time At Rest Devouring Its Secret” (Source Research, 2000)
- “Blood Sugar” (Bitter + Twisted Records, 2003)
- “Running Naked Through The Garment District” (Bitter + Twisted Records, 2003)
- “Another Language” (There There, 2004)
- “…And The Shuffle Of Things” (Field Radio, 2008)
PRESS REVIEWS:
“Bewitching, beautifully crafted and highly addictive” (The Wire)
“Poppy is a master of hybridization: classical and contemporary classical music, orchestrated rock, chamber music, synthesizer rock, art rock, show music, avant-garde music and post-rock along with performance poetry and declamatory oration are all present in the mix here. But why attach labels to what is in essence new and inspirational music?” (Stride Magazine)
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