Thurston Moore

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Moore in 2008
Moore in 2008
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Demolished Thoughts
  US 139 06/11/2011 (1 week)
The Best Day
  UK 78 11/01/2014 (1 week)
  US 193 11/08/2014 (1 week)
Rock n Roll Consciousness
  DE 66 05/05/2017 (1 week)
  UK 65 05/11/2017 (1 week)

Thurston Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables , Florida ) is an American guitarist , songwriter and singer who was best known for the band Sonic Youth .

biography

Moore was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida and raised in Bethel , Connecticut . A degree in journalism, which he began in 1976 at Western Connecticut State University , he broke off after a semester, and then moved to New York . In 1980 he became a member of Glenn Branca's ensemble, in which Lee Ranaldo was already playing at the time . It was there that he first encountered the alternative guitar tunings that would later become a typical trademark of Sonic Youth's guitar work. Moore also recorded some of his first symphonies with Branca .

Moore later released several solo albums, including Psychic Hearts in 1995 , Root in 1999 , Trees Outside the Academy in 2007 and Demolished Thoughts in 2011, and co-founded the Dim Stars side project with Richard Hell . He also worked with Borbetomagus .

Moore also runs the independent label Ecstatic Peace! , on which recordings of Sonic Youth appear rarely. In addition to some works by artists such as Lydia Lunch or Karlheinz Stockhausen , works by unknown musicians such as Fursaxa, Hush Arbors and Arthur Doyle appear there .

He married Kim Gordon in 1984 and became parents in 1994. In October 2011, Moore and Gordon announced the end of their 27-year marriage. After the breakup, Thurston and his new partner moved from New York to London .

In 2012, YOKOKIMTHURSTON was released, an album from a collaboration between Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Yoko Ono . The solo album The Best Day , released in October 2014 , again on Matador Records , received good reviews.

In 2011, the Rolling Stone listed Moore 99th of the 100 best guitarists of all time . In a list from 2003 he was ranked 34th.

Discography (selection)

Thurston Moore at the music club Das Bett in Frankfurt am Main (2019)

Solo albums

  • 1995: Psychic Hearts , Geffen Records
  • 2007: Trees Outside the Academy , Ecstatic Peace
  • 2011: Demolished Thoughts , Matador Records 953
  • 2014: The Best Day , Matador Records 1062
  • 2017: Rock n Roll Consciousness , Caroline
  • 2019: Spirit Counsel

With Kim Gordon and Yoko Ono

Chelsea Light Moving

literature

  • David Browne: Goodbye 20th Century - The Story of Sonic Youth . From the American English by Ralf Niemczyk with Imke Trainer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, KiWi Paperback 1132, Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-462-04162-0 .

Web links

Commons : Thurston Moore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK US
  2. ↑ David Browne: Goodbye 20th Century - The Story of Sonic Youth . From the American English by Ralf Niemczyk with Imke Trainer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, KiWi Paperback 1132, Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-462-04162-0
  3. ↑ Christiane Rösinger: Memoirs by Kim Gordon , Spiegel.de, April 7, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Thurston Moore: New love, old preferences , review by Karl Fluch at Der Standard from October 29, 2014, accessed November 2, 2014
  5. ↑ Visions 240 p. 54
  6. ↑ Guitarist of Sonic Youth Thurston Moore presents a successful solo album "The Best Day" , review by Philipp Holstein in Rheinische Post from October 26, 2014, accessed November 2, 2014
  7. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - David Fricke's Picks. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Thurston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Thurston Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American guitarist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Coral Gables , Florida , United States