Andrew Thompson
Biography
There are multiple artists known as Andrew Thompson. 1.) Composer focused on video game and afro-cuban music, best known for his YouTube channel Orchestral Fantasy. 2.) Comedy musician.
1.) Andrew Thompson is a composer and multi-instrumentalist focused on video game and afro-cuban music. Thompson is most known for his YouTube channel Orchestral Fantasy- where he performs orchestral renditions of classic JRPG pieces from the 8-bit and 16-bit era. Thompson is also a member of the the band Calle Soul.
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2. Armed with a DMX drum machine, a kazoo, a Wurlitzer, some junky synthesizers, tubas, trombones, a robot, and a broke-ass piano, Mr. Thompson sings tales of the absurd and the everyday. Oh yeah - and the boy can sing.
The Brooklyn resident has a background in Jazz vocals and corporate entertainment. In fact he won the Jazz Vocal M.V.P. award at Boston's prestigious Berklee School of Music and went on to sing in high-class restaurants, stuffy hotels and big name corporate functions.
Now flying solo, Andrew's new single 'We're in Business' (released November 6th) is set to be this year's most thrillingly unusual, genre-defying pop song, about one man's love-hate relationship with a robot companion.
Before signing with Lewis Recordings, Thompson gained some publicity on-line through his track, "We're In Business" which, along with the accompanying video, tell of a love/hate relationship between Thompson and a robot. This track became the 2nd most requested song for 2005, at Western Kentucky University's college radio station, WWHR Revolution 91.7
He seamlessly mixes a diverse palette of influences that include ELO, De La Soul and the legendary Muppet Show pit band - Electric Mayhem - into material that is familiar, yet impossible to pin down.
Fresh from supporting Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in the U.S., Andrew is currently recording his debut album scheduled for release in late 2007.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.