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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.
For live performances, when not singing unaccompanied, he works with members of the industrial band Knifeladder. As well as his work with Knifeladder, he has also worked with Les Sentiers Conflictuels, Andrew Liles, Leisur::Hive, Brown Sierra, and Tony Wakeford, and has performed with Changes and Waldteufel.
As well as his solo work, he is also a member of Sol Invictus, Duo Noir and The Triple Tree.
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.
For live performances, when not singing unaccompanied, he works with members of the industrial band Knifeladder. As well as his work with Knifeladder, he has also worked with Les Sentiers Conflictuels, Andrew Liles, Leisur::Hive, Brown Sierra, and Tony Wakeford, and has performed with Changes and Waldteufel.
As well as his solo work, he is also a member of Sol Invictus, Duo Noir and The Triple Tree.
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wisbech wrote:
New album is incredible!
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NorseDave wrote:
Amazing and underrated artist...
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Greatbeast_333 wrote:
A unique Traditionalist artist whose work has some actual depth and purpose. King is one of the very few people doing something interesting and worthwhile in a genre that long ago ran out of steam. Make sure you catch him live with his band — should hear a lot more about him in the future.
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Epiphany66 wrote:
Hopefully see some of you at WGT?
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Verdonck wrote:
Best voice I ever heard.
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Hendim wrote:
Fantastic! Amazing!
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Gotha_Bella wrote:
Incredible voice? I'd rather say: a bit irritating. He would be a good priest.
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gloomydoom wrote:
That voice is just incredible. I'm addicted.
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Obs_Cure wrote:
impressive stuff
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Vinceremo88 wrote:
Greetings! I admire you music! It's good that there is TRUE music in this spoiled world. I've written music for Ezra Pound's poem, please listen and I'm interested in your opinion. It is only 30 seconds here, but at R&R it is full You can view my profile here http://randrworld.com/Vinceremo/ Btw, this network offers many benefits for artists so I would like to see you at http://randrworld.com/ Don't forget to add me to friends cause I suppose our views are similar!
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AroraBorealis wrote:
This guy does amazing illustrations as well as music! Check out his art work at http://www.fluxeuropa.com/andrewking-gallery.htm
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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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doyourwardance wrote:
plenty interesting.
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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!
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