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LIFEM 2011 programme:

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SAT, 29 OCT 2011, 20H00 RICH MIX:

  • Misty in Roots (UK)

    • SAT, 29 OCT 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Joe McPhee (USA) / Decoy (UK) Rare UK Performance

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    SUN, 30 OCT 2011, 18H00 RICH MIX:

  • Festa Umbela (Brazil)

    • SUN, 30 OCT 2011, 19H30 LOST THEATRE:

  • Aline Frazão (Angola) UK Premiere

    • SUN, 30 OCT 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Joe McPhee (USA) / Decoy (UK) Rare UK Performance

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    MON, 31 OCT 2011, 19H30 LOST THEATRE:

  • Maiuko (Mozambique)

    • MON, 31 OCT 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Taavi Kerikmäe / Mart Soo (Estonia) + Taavo Remmel (Estonia) + Free Tallinn Trio (Estonia) Rare UK Performances

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    TUE, 01 NOV 2011, 19H30 LOST THEATRE:

  • Mu (Portugal) UK Premiere | Only UK Performance This Year

    • TUE, 01 NOV 2011, 20H00 RICH MIX:

  • Namgar (Siberia) Rare UK Performance + Silk and Bamboo Ensemble (China)

    • TUE, 01 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Akira Sakata (Japan) / Chris Corsano (USA) / Darin Gray (USA) Rare UK Performance

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    WED, 02 NOV 2011, 19H30 KINGS PLACE - HALL ONE:

  • Claudia Aurora (Portugal) Launch of her debut album, "Silêncio" (World Village/Harmonia Mundi)

    • WED, 02 NOV 2011, 19H30 RICH MIX:

  • Dash Café (Arabic)

    • WED, 02 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Akira Sakata (Japan) / Chris Corsano (USA) / Darin Gray (USA) Rare UK Performance

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    THU, 03 NOV 2011, 19H30 KINGS PLACE - HALL ONE:

  • Huong Thanh (Vietnam) Rare UK Performance

    • THU, 03 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Eugene Chadbourne (USA) Rare UK Solo Performance

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    FRI, 04 NOV 2011, 19H30 KINGS PLACE - HALL ONE:

  • Mari Boine (Norway) Rare UK Performance

    • FRI, 04 NOV 2011, 19H30 RICH MIX:

  • Chinese Man (France) UK Premiere + LeYan & Skoob le Roi (France) UK Premiere + DJ Tchiky Al Dente (France)

    • FRI, 04 NOV 2011, 20H00 KINGS PLACE - HALL TWO:

  • Soname Yangchen (Tibet) Only UK Performance This Year

    • FRI, 04 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Baby Dee (USA)

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    SAT, 05 NOV 2011, 19H30 KINGS PLACE - HALL ONE:

  • Warsaw Village Band (Poland)

    • SAT, 05 NOV 2011, 20H00 KINGS PLACE - HALL TWO:

  • Maria Răducanu (Romania) UK Premiere | Only UK Performance This Year

    • SAT, 05 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Baby Dee (USA) Rare UK Performance

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    SUN, 06 NOV 2011, 19H30 RICH MIX:

  • Amsterdam Klezmer Band (Netherlands) UK Premiere + London Klezmer Quartet (UK)

    • SUN, 06 NOV 2011, 19H30, ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH:

  • Hortus Musicus (Estonia) Only UK Performance This Year

    • SUN, 06 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Aki Onda (Japan) / Alan Licht (USA) / Michael Snow (Canada) UK Premiere

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    MON, 07 NOV 2011, 20H00 CAFE OTO:

  • Aki Onda (Japan) + Alan Licht (USA) UK Premiere

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    ANDREW POPPY (UK)

    LIFEM_andrew_poppyGENRE:
    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)

    LINKS:

    www.myspace.com/andrewpoppy

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