Cadenza / 32 Frames
The Object is a Hungry Wolf / Listening in
presented in a specially devised show at Capstone Theatre Liverpool 29 march 2017
performed by Andrew Poppy (piano/voice/bass guitar/guitar)
and guest musicians from Liverpool.
violin - Simmy Sing, percussion - Lucy Mercer, sax - Dan Thorne
video: Julia Bardsley, lighting: Marty Langthorne, sound design: Fred DeFaye
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“Andrew Poppy is a veteran English avant-garde artist, - a recent discovery for me: a character off the radar of much of contemporary criticism, he is one of the interesting outsiders presented by this festival. With a stage presence and attitude that recall both the seraphic Battiato or the histrionic David Byrne, Poppy moves between the shaft of the microphone at centre stage, the pc and the piano slightly set back. At the piano Poppy juggles a recurring matrix of Cageian melody and Philip Glass forms. The piano sonatas interleave with the almost spoken word pieces at the microphone. This alternating is bipolar both calculated and theatrical and marked by moments of surreal comedy. Its quite sui generis.”
Performance at "VIAGGIO ALLA FINE DEI GIORN at Teatro Collossoe, Turin. Lorenzo Giannetti for Outsiders
