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5 unusual facts about Andrew Poppy


Andrew Poppy

One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member (in 1981) of The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by British composers composed in the style of such composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.

He contributed orchestral arrangements to Force The Hand of Chance, the first album by the group Psychic TV which was released on WEA Records in 1982.

In 1986, Andrew Poppy composed the original score for Portuguese seminal 80's film A Girl In Summer directed by Vítor Gonçalves.

A collaboration between Poppy and German singer Claudia Brücken (another ZTT artist in the 1980s who recorded with Propaganda and Act) resulted in the album Another Language in 2005.

Unnatural History III

Andrew Poppy is credited for participating on "Video Recorder".



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