Anna Meredith & Horsebox to support Shlomo & the Lip Factory
My good friend Anna Meredith and her new band Horsebox will be the support act at our Shlomo & the Lip Factory gig at London Union Chapel on October 28th.
Anna Meredith came to public attention as a classical composer, writing for the Last Night of the Proms as well as countless other orchestras and ensembles throughout the world, including spending a year with me working on our acclaimed 2010 commission Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra. She has recently turned her focus to performing her eclectic and irreverent electronic music and has already supported These New Puritans, James Blake and Mira Calix, performing material from her debut EP – Black Prince Fury.
Have a listen to her EP here:
Black Prince Fury by Anna Meredith
Her electronics have been described as “extremely beautiful” (The Times), a “set that would’ve gone down a storm at the Big Chill” (Financial Times) and displaying “admirable chutzpah” (The Wire). Expect epic electronic synth beat-mongery with a harmonic core from one of the UK’s most sought after young composers.
New commission: Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra
I’m so excited to announce that Southbank Centre have commissioned Anna Meredith and myself to write a new classical work entitled Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.
Anna Meredith (who you might have seen recently on TV teaching Goldie how to write orchestral music) is one of the UK’s hottest up and coming composers – she has written two BBC Proms and last year was commissioned for the Last Night of the Proms.
Our new piece will be performed on February 19th and 20th 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with a specially created 20-piece orchestra, plus the Vocal Orchestra (my 8-piece beatbox choir) embedded within the ensemble.
This will be a challenging modern classical work recognising the human voicebox as a musical instrument in its own right, and also a chance to create the first full notation for beatboxers.
I’ll be blogging and tweeting throughout the whole process, and all the latest info, photo, video, blog posts and links to buy tickets can be found on the Concerto’s project page.
