Andrew Phillips - voice, instruments, songs, production
Marcus O'Dair - double bass, keys, noise, management
Influences
Martin Hannett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Devo, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, Claude Debussy, John Stewart Collis, William Wordsworth, Robert Wyatt, Hilaire Belloc, Amon Tobin, WG Sebald, Harry Partch, Charles Mingus, Peter Warlock, Ezra Pound, Young Marble Giants, George Oppen, Oliver Postgate, John Barry, Freddie Phillips, Basil Bunting, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Barry Gray, Bernard Herrmann, Kraftwerk, Patrick Keillor, Chris Marker, Arthur Wainwright, T S Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Josef K, John Cage, Ron Goodwin, Thomas Pynchon, Brian Cant, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, Delia Derbyshire and all at the Radiophonic Workshop, Walter Leigh, Murcof, Cliff Martinez, George Oppen, The Beatles, Gene Clark, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Cabaret Voltaire, Moondog, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Phillips, Joseph Beuys
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"ghostly, weird and enveloping electronica" Sunday Times
“one of that select band of artists who are making genuinely daring
music that still remains an accessible and enjoyable listen” Tom
Robinson BBC 6music
"highly melodic, intelligently crafted and genuinely interesting" Clash
magazine
"pastoral psychedelia... wonderful stuff" Stuart Maconie BBC 6 Music
"rich, moody folktronica - and if that doesn't get you going, well - you
might be beyond hope" Bearded
"a celebration of England at its naffest & most beautiful... I like it a
lot!" Steve Lamacq BBC 6music
grasscut is Andrew Phillips and Marcus O'Dair. Phillips is an
award-winning film and television composer with over 100 screen credits
(to be viewed at unitedagents.co.uk/film/andrew-phillips/). His
soundtrack album, Home, is out now on Burning Shed and he has recently
contributed tracks to Lo Recordings. O'Dair contributes double bass,
keyboards and miscellaneous noise.
Their forthcoming debut album is a journey from the Sussex South Downs
of 'High Down', through the collapsing Nintendo Cathedral of 'Muppet',
to the transcendence of 'In Her Pride'. Weaving in between the lead
vocal are voices from the past and the present, snatched from mobile
phones & gramophones - a 1920s tenor, gossiping mums, a Victorian
singing poet, a woman reminiscing about post-war rationing...
As well as opening the main stage at The Big Chill 2009, grasscut have
played Loop, The Great Escape and France's White Night festival, and performed
audiovisual shows at Tate Britain, the ICA, Koko, Cargo and Brighton's
Duke of York's arthouse cinema. Among those with whom they have shared
stages are Plaid, Clark, Luke Vibert, Tim Exile, Nathan Fake, Daedelus, Speech
Debelle, Anti-Pop Consortium, Fujiya & Miyagi, Mark Pritchard, Acoustic Ladyland, The Invisible and Wildbirds & Peacedrums. As well as live sessions for Tom Robinson's BBC
6 Music show and Xfm, they have had airplay from BBC Radio 1, 2 and 3, as well as in Belgium and Japan. Remix work, meanwhile, ranges from Bonobo to Voluntary Butler Scheme. Hurrah.
Ever wondered what Anti-Pop Consortium nearly called themselves, or more pertinently, why they reformed after six years, and what the inspiration was behind their masterpiece, Fluorescent Black? Well, number 2 in the new series of Ninja Tune Podcasts can tell you all that and more. Hosted by the effervescent Dexter and featuring an in depth interview with Beans, High Priest and M Sayid, it’s worth a lot but comes for free. There’s also exclusive snippets of songs from the album, as well as the music that inspired one of hip-hop’s greatest collectives in the first place. Plus new music from The Heavy/Joker, Grasscut, Bonobo, Blockhead and Two Fingers. ‘Av it. Check I Tunes or the podcast section of the Ninja Tune Site. cheers!
