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Andrew King is an English folk singer, neofolk musician and traditionalist, presenting renditions of traditional songs and ballads, both a capella and with minimalist instrumentation, sometimes with an influence from post-industrial music.
His initial creative work was in the visual arts. After many years of experimentation, he dates his mature work from the first of his Emblematic paintings in 1991. In 1994 he started making documentary recordings of vernacular and traditional songs, music, and customs. He moved to London in 1995 to further this work and the illustrative compositions that he was doing for a number of the post-industrial / neofolk bands of the time (such as L’Orchestre Noir, Current 93, Ernte, Sol Invictus, etc), and to complement this made his first attempts at his own versions of traditional song the following year.
His first album The Bitter Harvest was issued and distributed by World Serpent in 1998 but he now sees it as an apprentice work. He sees his second album The Amfortas Wound (issued by Athanor in 2003) as his first proper album.
He is a resident singer at London’s Musical Traditions Club and was employed by the British Library between 2001-2005, for most of that time as an archivist and cataloguer of British traditional culture.
His initial creative work was in the visual arts. After many years of experimentation, he dates his mature work from the first of his Emblematic paintings in 1991. In 1994 he started making documentary recordings of vernacular and traditional songs, music, and customs. He moved to London in 1995 to further this work and the illustrative compositions that he was doing for a number of the post-industrial / neofolk bands of the time (such as L’Orchestre Noir, Current 93, Ernte, Sol Invictus, etc), and to complement this made his first attempts at his own versions of traditional song the following year.
His first album The Bitter Harvest was issued and distributed by World Serpent in 1998 but he now sees it as an apprentice work. He sees his second album The Amfortas Wound (issued by Athanor in 2003) as his first proper album.
He is a resident singer at London’s Musical Traditions Club and was employed by the British Library between 2001-2005, for most of that time as an archivist and cataloguer of British traditional culture.
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Gethsemane
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Polly On The Shore
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Love Henry
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The Week Before Easter
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deathloop wrote:
"Two brothers" is wrought by a true master, Andrew King. raw emotion.
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aethernaut wrote:
Amazing.
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Gyron5 wrote:
I love this stuff... TTTTT
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Gretchen_Ross26 wrote:
Actually an incredibly lovely man.
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doyourwardance wrote:
plenty interesting.
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Fontanelle wrote:
Genious.
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qwallath wrote:
Indeed, I thought it was a marvellous performance.
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Altruism wrote:
Saw him opening up for Sol Invictus last saturday. Extremely powerful vocal performance.
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dwfuji wrote:
Not very interesting overall, but he has an amazing voice. Even carries it off well live.
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qwallath wrote:
Two new (actually old) pics up for voting!
News
Updated List of Available Recordings
5 Oct 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/AndrewStewartKing
Here is my updated list of available recordings. Do check out the new album Ghosts by The Triple Tree. Also, very good news, The Amfortas Wound is back in catalogue! Best Andrew Albums 2008: The Tr...
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2 Oct 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/AndrewStewartKing -
16 May 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/AndrewStewartKing
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