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Mister Poppy: Jelly

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Composer, musician, vocalist and record producer Andrew Poppy’s vast portfolio has seen scores for theatre, opera, film, contemporary dance and art installations. His latest project, Jelly, a beautifully challenging and intensely-detailed spoken and sung solo performance, sees him adopt his Mister Poppy persona.

Jelly is an avant-garde vocal experiment featuring a continuous electronic score in five parts and staged with video and sound projection. The album was created as a sonic homage to Robert Rauschenberg’s Nightshades and Phantoms, a series of dream-like paintings on the surface of a sheet of polished metal.

Poppy’s finely-crafted loops and dense blocks of electronic sound contain a sense of tantalising, enveloping danger. The piece is accompanied by hyper-visual vocal arrangements reminiscent of a Beat poet’s stream of consciousness. Dramatic, dirty and laced with a Lynchian notion of the fixated gaze, Poppy’s words alight upon grim notions with microscopic detail.

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Andrew Poppy is a post-minimal composer, musician, vocalist, writer and record producer with a unique body of work and collaborations. He performs solo (piano/voice/electronics) (London, Dusseldorf, Lisbon, Oporto, Turin) sometimes with his own Sustaining Ensemble and recently as piano soloist in his work Almost The Same Shame with the BBC Concert Orchestra as part of The Rest Is Noise Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Poppy’s early musical life included playing bass guitar in an improvising rock band, playing Bartok and Debussy on the piano and making music concrete (a form of electroacoustic music) with his father’s tape recorder.

In the early 1980’s he was an accompanist at the Laban Centre for Dance and pianist and composer with The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by minimalist British composers who were influenced by the styles of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.

Since then, his unusual body of work constantly explores different musical contexts. There are scores for theatre, film & video, contemporary dance and art installation; writing collaborations and arrangement for industrial rock and synth pop artist including Psych TV, Erasure, Nitzer Ebb, Claudia Brucken and Bernardo Devlin.

A wide range of ensembles have commissioned and/or performed his works at prestigious musical festivals including Noszferatu Ensemble and the Graham Fitkin Band. He is now in the midst of developing a new project.

 

Photo: John Hollingsworth

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