BERNARDO DEVLIN was a founder member and the singer of Osso Exótico, an experimental project made in the late 80s. He left the band in 1994 to follow his muse. He made theatre music for a company based in Berlin, where he lived for three years, and made music for films, animation movies and a TV series. He has explored an individual approach to singing and song thinking on ..Albedo.. (AnAnAnA 1997) and ..Circa 1999.. (EXTREMOCIDENTE 2003).
ANDREW POPPY
was a founder member of The Lost Jockey a London based electric chamber orchestra writing and performing minimal music in the early 80s. He has an extensive and eclectic body of work including orchestral music, three operas and many studio productions that explore classical and pop forms. He became internationally known with the release of ..The Beating of Wings.. (ZTT 1985) He has worked in the studio with many pop and experimental musicians.
Influences
Sounds Like
It sounds like a Rilke poem mashed up with the spirit of Pessoa.
Its sounds like the collision of a desire and a loss.
It's the thought of travel.
The fragmentation of a name.
The water lapping in the ports of London and Lisbon.
The sound of apples falling from the trees onto the ground.
Onto the baking red earth of the Alentejo
Onto the dank brown orchards of Kent.
We love Schubert, Scott Walker and Phil Spector. And a lot of other things!
We remember the era of electro pop (when was that) and the Mahlerian orchestral song cycle.
It's the sound of the splinter sloooowed dooooown sooooo slooooooow it starts to breath.
AUGUST ROUGH is a unique collaboration between Portuguese singer Bernardo Devlin and British composer-pianist Andrew Poppy. Sung in Portuguese and English and presented in sound, images and words, on CD, in concert and on DVD.
AUGUST ROUGH
will be released in the coming months WATCH THIS SPACE
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If it's too far from your home, if you have better things to do, if you're scared to go out...discover
Jack Dupon's video almost live at a private concert...
Oppression
Si c'est trop loin de chez vous, si vous avez mieux a faire, si sortir vous fait peur... Découvrez la vidéo de Jack Dupon presque en live lors d'un concert privé filmé sur Clermont-1ère en octobre 2008...