VOCAL (small ensemble) MUSIC

Lullaby for the Witching Hour' was written in 2004 for juice, the experimental vocal trio that Kerry is a member of. It was written with a few different influences in mind: Brian Wilson's 'Our Prayer', the Belgian/African a cappella group Zap Mama, and the soundtrack to the French animated film 'Belleville Rendez-Vous

Lullaby for the Witching Hour by Kerry Andrew

Kerry's first piece for juice, the trio of which she is a member. It was inspired by the first vocal sound you hear on the track, influenced by Meredith Monk's writing and Central African Pygymy vocal polyphony. It sets the translation of a Japanese court poem, a tanka about the moon, in the middle. It is abstractly about madness, cuckoos, and moons.

Lunacy is one track on juice's debut album, 'Songspin'

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I wrote this piece for COMA, the fantastic organisation which gets non-professional musicians to play exciting new music, for their anniversary weekend at Kings Place.

It sets the sound poem 'blues' by Canadian poet bpNichol, whose work I have always loved - I discovered him in a Canadian modern poetry anthology that my folks had bought (I lived in Canada when I was little). bpNichol wrote concrete and sound poetry, music theatre, collage, fiction and children's books and worked in performance and sculpture. Browse his archive here! It is beautiful.  http://www.bpnichol.ca/

Huge thanks to Eleanor Nichol for granting me permission to set her late husband's text.

This recording is of me doing all the parts. It's a flexible piece for any number of voices. It's now been released on Goliard Recordings.

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Kerry Andrew is a composer, performer and author based in London. 
She specialises in vocal music and opera, choral music, folk, jazz, and community music. Choral and experimental work has been heard on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, 6Music and Classic FM and on national news channels. She won a British Composer Award in 2010 and two more for her chamber operas 'Woodwose' and 'Dart's Love' in 2014. She won her 4th for 'who we are' for the National Youth Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall. She was 2010-12's Handel House Composer in Residence. In 2017, she made her Proms debut with BBC Ten Pieces.

Her debut novel, Swansong, is out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/swansong/kerry-andrew/9781911214229 and her second novel, SKIN, is published in February 2021.

Kerry performs as alt-folk artist You Are Wolf http://soundcloud.com/you-are-wolf; music can be heard and ordered here: https://youarewolf.bandcamp.com/

She performs with the award-winning vocal trio https://soundcloud.com/juicevocalensembleuk

She also performs with the jazz/classical/rock collective https://soundcloud.com/dollyman.

‘Stunning‘ Classic FM

‘Brilliant, Berio-like vocal effects…‘ The Times

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VOCAL (small ensemble) MUSIC

Kerry Andrew Composer