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PRESS
"The finest products of the minimalist mentality - Reich's Music
for 18 Musicians,
Rileys exquisitely impure undertakings, Glenn Branca's
tumultuous The Ascension- rise above the cold consideration of
mechanics and draws the listener into the
realms of ecstasy.Cadenza is the track in question, a
mesmerising feature for two
pianos that rise and dip like a tea clipper in a high wind. The
effect is breath-taking;
its superb enough to make me look forward with optimism to
future releases.
LYNDEN BARBER 1981 : MELODY MAKER
The Amusement is The obvious successor to The Art of Noise in
this modern
composers forceful dynamic production. A captivating and
impressive piece."
DAVE HENDERSON : MUSIC WEEK
"The best things I heard (at the Huddersfield Festival) were a
miniature by James
MacMillian and Andrew Poppy's inventively spare and varied Poems
and
Toccatas
NICHOLAS KENYON : OBSERVER
"Noise of industrial labour is submerged in Andrew Poppy's music
as tremendous
gathering melange of piano then brass and synthesiser, finally
electric guitar in greatslabs of impersonal, repetitive throbbing
sound. A scenario of mixed gestures, solo
melancholy and frantic deshabillement.... The Songs of the Clay
People
remembered by a child, are lost, fleeting renascent in a grey
metropolis of granite
rooms.... where excitement is provided by music which really did
strike me as being
of exceptional merit"
MICHAEL COVENEY FINANCIAL TIMES
"A ritual for three performers, offstage voices and musique
concrete. The effect isone of animated hallucination on which
Balthus and Francis Bacon might have
collaborated: arrogant ascetic, utterly sincere.
JOHN PETER : SUNDAY TIMES
Uranium Miner s "impressively full of emotional shrapnel."
PAUL DRIVER : SUNDAY TIMES
"His music is consistently trenchant and telling". MEIRION BOWEN
: GUARDIAN
