Sound and Music

Andrew Poppy's Sustaining Ensemble of keyboards and percussion will perform music from the recent CD ... and the Shuffle of Things, mixing dark ambient grooves, Schubert samples and the funk, classical piano and some oscillators with enigmatic stories of lost submarines and the head of Orpheus as a football.

Inspired by Francis Bacon's thoughts about the creative impulse and the urge to collect things, ...and the Shuffle of Things brings together new compositions, improvisations and songs without singing. The music has been described in The Wire as 'bewitching, beautifully crafted and highly addictive'.

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, Poppy treads a path between down tempo electronica and the minimalist works for orchestra that shot him to notoriety 25 years ago as a serious composer on a high profile pop label.