Andy Moor (guitarist)

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Arnold de Boer (l) and Andy Moor (r) with The Ex in Club W71 , 2016.

Andy Moor (* 1962 in London ) is a British guitarist who specializes in post-punk and new improvisation music .

Moor began his musical career as a member of the band Dog Faced Hermans in Edinburgh. In 1990 he moved to the Netherlands, where he became a member of the anarcho-punk group The Ex . He also worked with musicians such as Tom Cora , Han Bennink , Wolter Wierbos , Djibril Diabate , John Butcher and Anne James Chaton .

In 1995 he gave a series of improvisation concerts with Terrie Ex . In the following year he founded the group Kletka Red with Tony Buck , Joe Williamson and Leonid Soybelman , whose music was influenced by traditional Russian and Greek singing and klezmer music.

From 2000 he worked in the field of electronic music a. a. with Kaffe Matthews , Yannis Kyriakides , Thomas Lehn and Colin Mclean . At the same time he composed several soundtracks for films and performed with Katie Duck's Dance Company . With Kyriakides and Isabelle Vigier , he founded the Unsounds label in 2002 .

After touring with The Ex through Europe, the USA and Ethiopia, he worked with the Thermal group (with John Butcher and Thomas Lehn) from 2003 to 2004 . In 2005 he performed the piece Skunk with the dancer and choreographer Nora Heilmann , with The Ex and the theater group D'Electrique Anthony Burgess ' Clockwork Orange . In the following year he joined a. a. with DJ Rupture .

Discography

  • Dog Faced Hermans: Humans Fly / EverydayTimebomb , 1988
  • Dog Faced Hermans: Mental Blocks For All Ages , 1991
  • The Ex: Scrabbling at the Lock , 1992
  • Dog Faced Hermans: Hum Of Life , 1993
  • The Ex: And the Weatherman , 1993
  • The Ex: Mudbird Shivers , 1994
  • Dog Faced Hermans: Those Deep buds , 1994
  • Dog Faced Hermans: Bump and Swing , 1994
  • The Ex: Instant , 1995
  • Kletka Red: Hijackin , 1996
  • The Ex: Starters and Alternators , 1998
  • The Ex and Tortoise , 1999
  • The Ex: Dizzy Spells , 2000
  • Kletka Red: Hybrid , 2000
  • The Ex: Beautiful Frenzy , 2003
  • The Ex: Turn , 2004
  • The Ex: In the Event with Anne James Chaton , 2005
  • Lean Left: Volume 1 , 2010 (with Terrie Ex, Ken Vandermark , Paal Nilssen-Love )
  • Raft Hope Lies Constant in the Mouth , 2015 (with Steve Heather , Clayton Thomas and Sofia Jernberg )
  • Anne-James Chaton + Thurston Moore + Andy Moor: Heretics , 2016
  • Lean Left: I Forgot to Breathe (Trost Records), 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Moor, Andy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English punk guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH London