Thurston Moore, Andy Moor, Anne-James Chaton

May 3, Bimhuis

Thurston Moore – guitar
Andy Moor – guitar
Anne-James Chaton – voice

More poetry and noise with radical guitarists Andy Moor and Thurston Moore and Anne James Chaton’s poetry fragments, distinctive, deadpan delivery and depth charge electronics…

THURSTON MOORE

Although a key member of the critically acclaimed art/punk rock band Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore has also been involved in numerous side projects, including the Dim Stars with Richard Hell and Even Worse. His first solo album, Psychic Hearts (recorded during and immediately after his wife and Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon’s pregnancy in 1994), with ex-Half Japanese guitarist Tim Foljahn and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, had an appropriately offhand feel but was far from sloppy. Along with carrying Sonic Youth into the 2000s, Moore collaborated with artists including DJ Spooky and Nels Cline, wrote music reviews and other pieces for Arthur magazine, and issued a book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, in 2005. His second song-based album, Trees Outside of the Academy, arrived in 2007, and featured largely acoustic arrangements and cameos by Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis, Samara Lubelski, and Moore’s fellow Sonic Youth member Steve Shelley. In 2010, Moore guested on the Hat City Intuitive’s A Ticket for Decay and began laying the foundation for another solo effort, Demolished Thoughts, which appeared the following year. Following Moore’s separation from lifelong bandmate, wife, and partner Kim Gordon in late 2011, Sonic Youth’s future became incredibly uncertain and put on indefinite pause. Despite the unclear circumstances surrounding their split, Moore and Gordon worked in collaboration with Yoko Ono the following year on the album YOKOKIMTHURSTON. By 2012, Moore had begun touring and recording with new act Chelsea Light Moving, as well as joining black metal group Twilight on guitar. The year 2013 saw the release of @, a collaborative album of sax/guitar improvisations with fellow N.Y.C. fringe dweller John Zorn.

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ANNE JAMES CHATON voice, electronics

Anne James Chaton based in Paris, is sound poet and performer. He has directed several reviews and has had six books of his poetry published by Al Dante. He has performed with the Dutch experimental rock group The Ex, and released Cds with guitarist Andy Moor (“Le Journaliste”) who regularily perform live all over europe, Alva Noto (“Unitxt”) and his own solo releases, including recently “Evenements 09”. In 2010, he presented a new performance, called “Black Monodie”, with the French performer Philippe Menard and continues to work with both Alva Noto and Andy Moor on a project called “Decade”.

ANDY MOOR guitar

Andy Moor based in Amsterdam , born in London , began his musical life in Scotland is a full time member of Dutch Band The Ex and was a founding member of Scottish band Dog Faced Hermans and Berlin based Kletka Red ….he has other duo projects with Yannis Kyriakides, Christine – Abdelnour -Sehnaoui, DJ/Rupture, Colin McLean, Kaffe Matthews and with quartet Lean Left (Terrie Ex, Paal Nillssen Love and Ken Vandermark) and trio Thermal (Thomas Lehn and John Butcher) and Trio Decade ( Anne James Chaton . Alva Noto). Andy also works creating soundtracks for several film and dance companies.

Andy Moor and Anne James Chaton first began performing together in 2004 when Chaton joined the Ex onstage to perform one of their songs …they later began to collaborate as duo building the music and text for one of Chatons portrait series of a journalist which later resulted in their first CD ” le Journaliste “. Since then Andy and Chaton have toured widely in Europe, Canada and Japan ..always building, reconstructing and adjusting their set and performance using improvisation as a creative source ..also in more recent months including video projections. They combine guitar riffs and loops, abstract noise, live sampling, dark beats and the unmistakable voice of chaton very present and rhythmic and somehow musical though never intentionally. At present they are working on their Transfer series based around the themes of transition and transportation the results of which will be released as a series of 4 seven inch singles in 2011 of which 2 are already out on the unsounds label.