Andy Moor (The Ex)

Andy Moor
Background information
Also known as Andy Ex
Born 1962
London, England
Origin United Kingdom[1]
Genres Avant-garde music,[1] punk rock,[1] noise,[1]electronic,[1]improvisation
Instruments Electric guitar,[1]baritone guitar[1]
Associated acts Dog Faced Hermans, The Ex, Lean Left, Kletka Red
Notable instruments
Fender guitar[1]

Andy Moor (born 1962) began his musical life in Edinburgh, Scotland playing guitar with Dog Faced Hermans, a 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 with whom he performs a set of rebetika 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, and Lebanese Paris-based saxophonist Christine Abdelnour. He has also begun composing soundtracks for films working with Iranian filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi and US experimental filmmaker Jem Cohen. His latest projects include a quartet with Ken Vandermark, Terrie Ex and Paal Nilssen-Love called Lean Left, a trio with Berlin based artists and musician Alva Noto and Anne James Chaton called Decade, and a trio project with Anne James Chaton and Thurston Moore 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.

Discography

Singles

Film Soundtracks

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Crane, Larry (2010). Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, Volume 2. Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-0-9779903-0-6.

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