Andy Moor (born 1962) is an English guitarist best known for his work with
Dog Faced Hermans
Dog Faced Hermans were a post-punk band that formed in Scotland in the mid 1980s and remained active through the mid 1990s. They emerged from the UK anarcho-punk scene with a guitar/bass/drums line-up, but also incorporated trumpet and other ...
Moor began his musical life in Edinburgh, Scotland playing guitar with
Dog Faced Hermans
Dog Faced Hermans were a post-punk band that formed in Scotland in the mid 1980s and remained active through the mid 1990s. They emerged from the UK anarcho-punk scene with a guitar/bass/drums line-up, but also incorporated trumpet and other ...
, an eclectic group that mixed post-punk energy with traditional tunes and improvisations. In 1990 he moved to the Netherlands after an invitation to join Dutch band The Ex. In 1995 he began another group, Kletka Red with Tony Buck Joe Williamson and Leonid Soybelman, fusing traditional klezmer, Greek and Russian songs with their own styles of playing.
Moor's own background is rooted in the post-punk Britain of the 1980s, but in more recent years he has collaborated with many musicians from varied backgrounds and disciplines. Many of these collaborations are duos, with amongst others Cypriot composer
Yannis Kyriakides
Yannis Kyriakides (Greek: Γιάννης Κυριακίδης, born 1 August 1969) is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighti ...
with whom he performs a set of
rebetika
Rebetiko ( el, ρεμπέτικο, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the s ...
songs (urban Greek tunes from the 1920s and 1930s), French sound poet Anne James Chaton, ex bass player from Dog Faced Hermans Colin Mclean, who now works with electronic music and live sampling, Brooklyn-based DJ, producer and writer
DJ /rupture
Jace Clayton, better known as DJ /rupture, is a New York-based American DJ, writer and interdisciplinary artist. In addition to his music, Clayton has established a blog identity with musical and non-musical posts on his website, "mudd up!". His ...
, and Lebanese Paris-based saxophonist Christine Abdelnour.
Moor has also begun composing soundtracks for films, working former
Dog Faced Hermans
Dog Faced Hermans were a post-punk band that formed in Scotland in the mid 1980s and remained active through the mid 1990s. They emerged from the UK anarcho-punk scene with a guitar/bass/drums line-up, but also incorporated trumpet and other ...
vocalist-turned filmmaker Marion Coutts, with Iranian filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi and US experimental filmmaker
Jem Cohen
Jem Alan Cohen (born 1962) is an Afghan-born American filmmaker based in New York City. Cohen is especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats ( sixteen-millimetre, Super 8, videotape) and collab ...
. His latest projects include a quartet with
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compos ...
, Terrie Ex and
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974) is a Norwegian drummer and composer in the jazz, free jazz and free improvisation genres. (in Norwegian)
Early life
Nilssen-Love was born in Molde, Norway. His parents ran a jazz club in Stavanger, and h ...
called Lean Left, a trio with Berlin-based artists and musician
Alva Noto
Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a German musician and visual artist. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryoj ...
and Anne James Chaton called Decade, and a trio project with Anne James Chaton and
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Mo ...
called Heretics. In 2013 he began a duo project with John Butcher. Moor lives in Amsterdam at present and continues to be a full-time member of The Ex. He is a founding member of the music label Unsounds, in Amsterdam, with Yannis Kyriakides and Isabelle Vigier.
Discography
*''Locks'' (2001, CD, with
Kaffe Matthews
Kaffe Matthews is a British electronic composer and sound artist. She collaborated on the work ''Weightless Animals'', which won a BAFTA Scotland award.
Biography
Matthews is from Good Easter in Essex, England.Unsounds)
*''Thermal'' (2001, CD, with John Butcher/
Thomas Lehn
Thomas Lehn (born 1958 in Fröndenberg) is a German piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music.
Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malfatt ...
, Unsounds)
*''Red V Green'' (2004, CD, with
Yannis Kyriakides
Yannis Kyriakides (Greek: Γιάννης Κυριακίδης, born 1 August 1969) is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighti ...
, Unsounds)
*''Live in France'' (2007, CD-R, with
DJ /rupture
Jace Clayton, better known as DJ /rupture, is a New York-based American DJ, writer and interdisciplinary artist. In addition to his music, Clayton has established a blog identity with musical and non-musical posts on his website, "mudd up!". His ...
)
*''Marker'' (2007, CD, solo, Unsounds)
*''Patches'' (2008, CD, with DJ /rupture, Unsuitable Records)
*''Everything But the Beginning'' (2009, CD, with
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* Colin (given name)
* Colin (surname)
* ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie
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, Unsounds)
*''Le Journaliste'' (2009, CD, with
Anne James Chaton
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, Unsounds)
*''Rebetika'' (2010, CD, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
*''Folia'' (2010, CD, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
*''Lean Left'' (2010, CD, with Terrie Ex,
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compos ...
,
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974) is a Norwegian drummer and composer in the jazz, free jazz and free improvisation genres. (in Norwegian)
Early life
Nilssen-Love was born in Molde, Norway. His parents ran a jazz club in Stavanger, and h ...
, live at Bimhuis Vol. 1&2, Smalltwon Superjazz)
*''Guitargument'' (2010, CD, with
Mia Clarke
Mia Clarke (born 20 March 1983) is an English guitarist from the alternative rock band Electrelane and an entrepreneur. She was born in Brighton, England and following a short period living in the Czech Republic moved to Chicago, United States ...
, hellosQuare Recordings)
*''Décade'' (2012, CD, Album, Ltd, Book, with Anne-James Chaton and
Alva Noto
Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a German musician and visual artist. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryoj ...
, Raster-Noton)
*''Lean Left Live at Café Oto'' (2012, CD, with guests, Unsounds)
*''Transfer'' (2012, CD, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
*''Lean Left Live at Area Sismica'' (2013, CD, Unsounds)
*''A Life is A Billion Heartbeats'' (2014, with Yannis Kyriakides, Unsounds)
*''Experiments with A Leaf'' (2015, with John Butcher, Unsounds)
*''Raft – Hope lies Constant in the Mouth'' (2015, download only, with
Steve Heather
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* Steve ...
,
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The 1999 Ru ...
*''Transfer 1 Departures (22U)'' (2011, 7-inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
*''Transfer 2 Princess in Car (23U)'' (2011, 7-inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
*''Transfer 3 Flying Machines (24U)'' (2012, 7-inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
*''Transfer 4 Inbound/Outbound (36U)'' (2013, 7-inch, with Anne James Chaton, Unsounds)
Film Soundtracks
*''Epic'' (2000, Marion Coutts, short film)
*''No Evil Star'' (2003, Marion Coutts, short film)
*''Transit'' (2004, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi with Yannis Kyriakides, short film)
*''Blessed Are the Dreams of Men'' (2005,
Jem Cohen
Jem Alan Cohen (born 1962) is an Afghan-born American filmmaker based in New York City. Cohen is especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats ( sixteen-millimetre, Super 8, videotape) and collab ...
, short film)
*''Moving Pictures'' (2007, Jem Cohen, four 1-minute films)
*''Why No Colour?'' (2007, Jem Cohen with Mia Clarke)
*''People of The Shadows'' (2008, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi with Yannis Kyriakides, documentary)
*''Kiba'' (2012, Banafsheh Khoshnoudi with Yannis Kyriakides)
*''Sud Eau Nord Deplacer'' (2015, Antoine Boutet with Yannis Kyriakides)