Andy Moor (guitarist)


Andy Moor is an English guitarist best known for his work with Dog Faced Hermans and the [Ex (band)|the Ex].

Biography

Moor began his musical life in Edinburgh, Scotland playing guitar with Dog Faced Hermans, 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 with whom he performs a set of rebetika songs, French sound poet, 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.
Moor has also begun composing soundtracks for films, working former Dog Faced Hermans vocalist-turned filmmaker Marion Coutts, with Iranian filmmaker and US experimental filmmaker Jem Cohen. His latest projects include a quartet with Ken Vandermark, 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. He is a founding member of the music label Unsounds, in Amsterdam, with Yannis Kyriakides and Isabelle Vigier.

Discography

  • Locks
  • Thermal
  • Red V Green
  • Live in France
  • Marker
  • Patches
  • Everything But the Beginning
  • Le Journaliste
  • Rebetika
  • Folia
  • Lean Left
  • Guitargument
  • Décade
  • Lean Left Live at Café Oto
  • Transfer
  • Lean Left Live at Area Sismica
  • A Life is A Billion Heartbeats
  • Experiments with A Leaf
  • Raft – Hope lies Constant in the Mouth
  • ''Futuro Ancestrale''

Singles

  • Transfer 1 Departures
  • Transfer 2 Princess in Car
  • Transfer 3 Flying Machines
  • ''Transfer 4 Inbound/Outbound ''

Film Soundtracks

  • Epic
  • No Evil Star
  • Transit
  • Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
  • Moving Pictures
  • Why No Colour?
  • People of The Shadows
  • Kiba
  • ''Sud Eau Nord Deplacer''