ANDY MOOR

Composer and sound designer Andy Moor (Wings of Desire) was born in London England and began his musical life in Scotland playing guitar with the band Dog Faced Hermans. In 1990 he moved to the Netherlands to join the Dutch band The Ex and continues to be a full time member of this band. In 1995 he performed his first series of completely improvised concerts as a duet with Terrie Ex, and later released a video of the best performances. In 1996 he began another group with Tony Buck (Necks), Joe Williamson and Leonid Soybelman (Ne Zhdali) called Kletka Red, fusing traditional Klezmer, Greek and Russian songs with their own frantic styles of playing. In recent years he has worked with electronic musicians (Kaffe Matthews, Yannis Kyriakides, Thomas Lehn, and Colin Mclean), composed soundtracks for films and performed regularly with dancers such as Magpie Music and Dance Company. He created soundtracks for the film Epic by artist Marion Coutts (Dog Faced Hermans) and for her film No EvilStar; and launched a new CD label along with Yannis Kyriakides and Isabelle Vigier, called Unsounds. Mr. Moor has worked with Thermal (John Butcher and Thomas Lehn), with Magpie Music and Dance Company, and sound poet Anne James Chaton; collaborated with dancer and choreographer Nora Heilmann, and with the Dutch theatre companies The Ex and D’Electrique, including the production of A Clockwork Orange. He has toured extensively with The Ex worldwide.

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