Mister Poppy: Jelly
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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