Andrew Poppy is a composer, musician, vocalist and record producer with a unique body of eclectic work mixing acoustic and electronic sounds with language, visual images and perfor- mance. In the mid 1980s he was signed to Trevor Horn’s Zang Tumb Tumm label as a contemporary composer and artist. The albums The Beating of Wings and Alphabed include works for large ensembles, piano and electric piano, as well as vocal and electronic pieces.
He continues to write, record, and perform solo and with his own ensmble. In 2017 he contributed a solo vocal performance to A New History of Song programme at the London Contemporary Music Festival. Recent performances have been at Outsiders Festival, Turin, Ars Musica Festival, Belgium and Raft, Iklectik and Coronet Theatre, London.
Ark Hive of A Live, a book with 4 CDs of archive recordings covering four decades of work, with writing by Paul Morley, Leah Kardos, Rose English and Nik Bartsch, was published in January 2023. His most recent album is JELLY, a solo vocal and electronic piece in five parts.
