Unsounds
Unprotected Sleep
Unprotected Sleep
Christine Abdnelnour and Andy Moor have explored the notion of hypnagogia or ‘unprotected sleep’ to drive their process for this improvised album, delving in their own experience and memories. Unprotected sleep is commonly defined as an altered state of consciousness that occurs beyond the proper or intended time of waking up, not sleeping in your own safe bed, or even sleeping without a blanket. Being slightly out of phase, one is vulnerable, fragile, but the mind is at the same time very fluid, ultra-associative with an extraordinary memory. In their music making Abdelnour (saxophone) and Moor (guitar) explore the possibilities of real and hallucination sounds and ranges that might come with deep dreaming.
One thinks of the necessary openness and intense acuity that are necessary tools for successful improvisation. And of the naked honesty that can make it touching and powerful. Unprotected Sleep is an imaginative dialogue between two idiosyncratic voices in experimental improvisation.
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Mixed by Andy Moor
Mastered by Enrico Mangione & Luca Martegani – Laboratorio di sperimentazione sonora Nitön, Barasso, Italia
Recorded in Montreuil 2022 and Vandeurvre 2011, France by Christine Abdelnour and Andy Moor
Design by Isabelle Vigier – Photos by Andy Moor
Transfer
Transfer
A collection of poetry guitar music pieces originally released as a series of four seven inch singles based around the themes of transportation and transition; side A constructed from real or factual information and material, side B from fiction and fantasy. -Unsounds
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Music By, Guitar – Andy Moor
Voice, Text By – Anne-James Chaton
Vocals [Additional] – Chiara Solari (track 3)
Saxophone – Christine Abdelnour (track 6)
Voice [Berlin] – Carsten Nicolai (track 6)
Voice [London] – John Edwards (track 6)
Voice [Los Angeles] – Mark Morse (track 6)
Voice [Moscow] – Denis Kaznachev (track 6)
Voice [New York] – DJ Rupture (track 6)
Voice [Rome] – Federico Bonelli (track 6)
Voice [Toronto] – Brodie West (track 6)
Loops [Click Beat Loop] – Yannis Kyriakides (track 7)
Recorded at “Next to Jaap” studio.
Mixed [Remixed], Remastered – Andy Moor
Design – Isabelle Vigier
Mastered – Andy Moor, Corno Zwetsloot
Alternative version of Sul volo and Metro have been arranged for the dance piece “Le cas Gage, ou Les aventures de Phinéas en Amérique”.
Sources :
1 Site du Ministère des affaires étrangères.
2 Jules Vernes, Le tour du monde en 80 jours
3 Journaux télévisés, quotidiens, vidéos publiées sur internet
4 Bernard Meyer-Stabley, La véritable Grace et Alfred Hitchcock, Rear window
5 wikipedia.org, rubrique “Chronologie des catastrophes aériennes”
6 Carte des métros, Google view
7 Romans d’Agatha Christie mettant en scène Hercule Poirot
8 Sites internet relatant la chronologie du naufrage
9 Herman Melville, Moby Dick et John Huston, Moby Dick
The index point for “Une histoire de l’aviation” is missing. The song can be found on track 4, after “Princess in a Rover”.
Comes in gatefold cardsleeve with a 31-page booklet including “lyrics”.
ThermalThermalThermal
ThermalThermalThermal
A set of stunning improvisations by Andy Moor (electric guitar), John Butcher (saxophones) and Thomas Lehn (EMS synth). “One of the most thrilling improv outings released this year so far.” -Dan Warburton, The Wire
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Andy Moor (electric guitar)
John Butcher (saxophones)
Thomas Lehn (EMS synth)
Revolver
Revolver
Inspired by the kinetic physicality and aesthetics of balance found in Ken Unsworth’s work, the music embodies a feeling of suspension between movement and stasis. Evolving and revolving melodies, poised skilfully in polyrhythmic structures, the music creates an intoxicating and emotional impression. There is a feeling of constant motion and flow of sonic currents that typifies much of Kate Moore’s music.
The music shifts from the material world, the gradually shifting stone-like cycles of the title track “Revolver”, the restrained power and poignancy of “The Boxer” to the various slow unfurling melodies of the tightrope inspired “Song Of Ropes”, and finally to a contemplation of the immaterial in “Way Of The Dead”.
The pieces are performed with extraordinary virtuosity by the musicians Anna McMichael, Rowena Macneish, Kirsty McCahon, Genevieve Lang and Claire Edwardes. This album is Kate Moore’s first collaboration with Unsounds. Anna McMichael has released several projects with the label.
Kate Moore, composer
Anna McMichael, violin
Genevieve Lang, harp
Claire Edwardes, percussion
Rowena MacNeish, cello
Kirsty McCahon, double bass
Bob Scott, sound engineer
red v green
red v green
Yannis Kyriakides – live electronics
Andy Moor – guitar / radio
Recorded in 2003 at Jottem Krommenie and Zaal 100 Amsterdam.
Mixed and edited by Yannis Kyriakides and Andy Moor.
Mastered at OT301 by Colin McLean.
Cover photograph: Joe McBride.
Photos inside: Andy Moor, selected and edited by Isabelle Vigier.
Artwork: Isabelle Vigier.
Based on 3 improvisation sessions.
© Yannis Kyriakides (PRS), Andrew Moor (PRS)
Special thanks to Isabelle, Colin, Ayelet, Marion, Mark & Mara, Mary, Grrrt, Zaal 100, OT301, Stephie, Kraakgeluiden, Alain, STEIM, Anne-James, Giuseppe & Domenico, Steve & Joe, Fofi, Magpie.
Unsounds, 9U, 2004
Rebetika
Rebetika
Andy Moor (guitar) and Yannis Kyriakides (computer) lovingly deconstruct and reassemble their favourite rebetika music in a set of 9 pieces that encompass a wide scope of musical vision. This is an unusual and original take on the so called “blues” music of the Greek diaspora of the early 20th century. -Unsounds
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Computer – Yannis Kyriakides
Guitar – Andy Moor
The live set recorded in Glasgow’s CCA in Feb 28.2006 was originally recorded and released as an exclusive download for 7hings Music.
Reinterpretations of Classic Rebetika Songs.
A1, A2, A3, A5, B1, B3, B4 recorded live at the CCA, Glasgow Feb 28.2006
Track A4 recorded at the Grand Theatre, Groningen 02.08.06 for dance group Club Guy & Roni.
Track B2 recorded at Zaal 100, Amsterdam 2009.
Artwork – Isabelle Vigier
Pavilion
Pavilion
“The music they produced is much more jagged than the clean lines of the room in which they made it, but it nonetheless feels like it was sculpted to emphasize textures and shapes, instead of the melodies that define the duo’s other work.” -Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader, June 5th, 2020
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In 2017 Andy Moor and Yannis Kyriakides were invited to participate in Xavier Veilhan’s ‘Studio Venezia’ at the French pavilion for the 57th Venice Art Biennale. This was a space where a series of musicians were in residence throughout the six month duration of the festival, recording and performing there in an open environment. The two musicians had access to a variety of instruments and machines including Moog, Buchla and Vermona synths which were used for some of the recordings. The unusual situation here was that they were working in a studio, experimenting, trying out ideas while at the same time being a part of an ongoing art installation. So they were part of the space, yet not really knowing whether they should play for the crowds who were constantly passing through the pavilion or just ignore them.
“The intensity of the situation brought out a different way of playing, and created the feeling as if we were stranded in the middle of a busy street playing to an unremitting traffic of ghosts..”
The result was nine hours of recorded material mostly im- provised or based on a few basic rhythmic patterns that Kyriakides had prepared as starting blocks. For this album they selected 45 minutes of what they considered to be the strongest material after several listenings and editing sessions.
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Andy Moor: electric guitar
Yannis Kyriakides: computer & synths
Recorded at Xavier Veilhan’s ‘Studio Venezia’ at the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale Oct 23-24 2017
Mixed and Mastered by Yannis Kyriakides and Andy Moor March 2020
Artwork: cardboard wallet with cut-out design and inner sleeve
Medea
Medea
“Medea, a melodrama for 8 instruments” by Calliope Tsoupaki performed by Ensemble MAE
It is the first in a series of chamber music compositions focusing on drama.The composition is written for ensemble MAE, that distinguishes itself for its colourful, direct, physical and improvisatory character; Tsoupaki uses the ensemble’s palette, composing solos, duets, trios, wrapped in larger sonic fields, with a strong associative and visual impact. Further there is no story-telling for the listener to be led into the piece; the music material itself is suggestive, and the melodies have a leading role, as characters in a theatre play. Coming back as in different scenes in a film, each time changed and transformed, they are the vectors of tangible dramatic development.
As the music material unfolds, we get close to an ultimate Medea, ever changing, beautiful, and wild, but also dignified and powerful. But next to an exploration of the myth, “Medea” attempts to compose a self-portrait, the composer shedding light onto a deep, unspoken part of herself.
Pasolini’s “Medea” was an inspiration for writing this piece, and most of all Maria Callas in the role of Medea, “so tragic that she did not sing a word.”
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Composed By – Calliope Tsoupaki
Performed by Ensemble MAE
Conductor – Bas Wiegers
Clarinet – Michel Marang
Contrabass – Jelte Van Andel
Electric Guitar – Wiek Hijmans
Percussion – Fedor Teunisse
Piano – Reinier Van Houdt
Recorder – Karolina Bäter
Trombone – Koen Kaptijn
Violin – Marleen Wester
Recording – Dick Lukas
Mixing – Yannis Kyriakides
Design – Isabelle Vigier
Marker
Marker
“On this, his debut solo CD, Andy Moor explores a wide spectrum of his unusual guitar style, resulting in an exciting, varied and challenging collection, ranging from melodic solo guitar pieces to atmospheric soundscapes and wild outbursts of radical sound.” -Unsounds
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Track 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14 and 15 recorded at Zaal 100, Amsterdam
Track 2 used later as the main theme in a theatre production of “Clockwork Orange” directed by Ola Mafaalani with The Ex and D’Electrique
Track 4 is part of a recording for the soundtrack of a film by Esther Eva Damen, called “ik ga terug en ik kom nooit”
Track 7 recorded at STEIM, Amsterdam, part of recording for “Locks” with Kaffe Matthews
Track 9 recorded at OT 301, Amsterdam, while rehearsing with Ema Nik Thomas
Track 10 recorded at STEIM
Track 13 is a piece originally made for guitar and violin, for a theatre production of “Wings of Desire” by TOneelgroep Amsterdam
Recorded, mixed and mastered between 2003 and 2006
Locks
Locks
Andy Moor – guitar
Kaffe Metthews – live converter
All pieces are improvisations and were recorded by Bob Field at Annette Works, Hillside studios, London, and STEIM, Amsterdam, between april and august 2000 except tracks 8, 10 and 16 recorded live at Instant Chavires, Paris, in November 2000.
Mastered and edited by the ever patient Colin McLean at OT301, Amsterdam
© Andy Moor, Kaffe Metthews 2001
Photography: Ilse Schrama, Andy Moor, Sharon Topper
Design: Isabelle Vigier
Unsounds, 02U, 2001
Live at Cafe Oto
Live at Cafe Oto
Lean Left throws together two explosive duos – the sax/drums collision course of Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilsson-Love with the piledriving guitarists from The Ex – to make up a positively apocalyptic quartet: an elemental musical force featuring Grade A international players zoning in and scrambling together rock, jazz, noise and blistering free improv into a highly-charged onstage assault, each member taking their sounds and bodies to the edge and often snapping out of the wilds and into glorious passages of regular rhythm. Recorded live at Café Oto, London in 2011.
The music of Lean Left is extrovert, energetic, powerful and inclusive but also confrontational and provocative: where rhythm, noise, melody and harmony melt together in perfect union. In two tracks “Live at Café Oto” captures one moment of high powered, highly varied improvisation. Pretty much the dream ticket for those who like their live music raw, hard and violently soulful.
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“This is an album that is all about the rhythm. From beats to pulses to heartbeats to the sounds of the doomsday clock. From precise muted guitars to repetitive saxophone lines and tones, they are all being accented by Father Time himself Paal Nilssen-Love (drums).” -Phillip Coombs, Free Jazz Blog
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Terrie Ex: Guitar
Andy Moor: Guitar
Ken Vandermark: Tenor Saxophone, B Clarinet
Paal Nilssen-Love: Drums
Recorded live at Café Oto, London on September 11th and 12th
Design – Isabelle Vigier
Mixed By, Mastered By – Colin McLean
Photograph – Andy Moor
Live at Area Sísmica
Live at Area Sísmica
Terrie Ex: Guitar
Andy Moor: Guitar
Paal Nilssen-Love: Drums
Ken Vandermark: Reeds
Recorded live in concert at Area Sismica, Forli, Forli – Cesena, Italy,September 22 2012.
All music by Lean Left: Terrie Ex (BUMA), Andy Moor (PRS), Ken Vandermark (ASCAP), Paal Nilssen-Love (TONO)
Concert organised by Area Sismica, recorded live by Ariele Monti, rough mixes by Gionni Gardini.
Final mix and mastering by Andy Moor with helpful advice from Colin Mclean, Arnold de Boer and Lean Left.
design + cover image: Isabelle Vigier.
Photos inside: Andy Moor / Ajay Saggar
Special thanks to Ariele Monti and Gionni Gardini for kindly donating the recordings and rough mixes to us, and everyone else at Area Sismica, Sergio Merino, Olga Abalos, Marta Fontanals, Arco Y Flecha for booking our tours and organising our insane travel schedules, Cafe Oto, Colin McLean, Arnold de Boer and Unsounds.
Le Journaliste
Le Journaliste
“Moor has a beautiful sound and his playing is very to the point. He paints fantastic abstract musical textures that go very well together with the voicework by Chaton. In a piece like Frequencies with extreme manipulations, it becomes hard to distinguish who is doing what. A very satisfying work of conceptual art.” —Vital Weekly
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Voice, text -Anne-James Chaton
Guitar, music – Andy Moor
Sounds [Samples] – Colin McLean (track 2)
Voice – Alain Bolle (track 8)
Voice – Banafsheh Khoshnoudi (track 8)
Voice – Eduard Escoffet (track 8)
Voice – Makiko Ito (track 8)
Voice – Malgorzata Haduch (track 8)
Voice – Melkorka Olafsdottir (track 8)
Voice – Valeria Giuga (track 8)
Voice – Yannis Kyriakides (track 8)
Enregistrements studio realises a l’Atelier, Paris, par Luca Chauviere, enregistrements live realises a Dunkerque (festival Mon Inouie Symphonie) et Lyon (festival Radio Canut fete ses 30 ans).
Mixed at Zaal 100, Amsterdam by Andy Moor and Anne-James Chaton
Mastered at OT301, Amsterdam by Andy Moor and Colin Mclean
Design & illustration by Isabelle Vigier
Stage photos by Andy Moore
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Ice in a Hot World
Ice in a Hot World
“THERMAL (John Butcher / Andy Moor / Thomas Lehn) formed in 2001, three musicians from different musical backgrounds, evolving along their personal routes to meet in free improvisations. For twenty years they’ve been taking their subtle and explosive music throughout Europe. Unsounds released their first album Thermal in 2003. In 2023 the trio of quiet giants comes back with Ice in a Hot World, a new album recorded live in Avignon. The Thermal powerhouse has become highly confident but spontaneity and intuition are at the core of their performance at all times.
Twenty years of working together, and in other formats, turned Thermal into a powerful and intrepid unit, always searching for uncompromising, mysterious and unchartered sonic frontiers.” -Eyal Hareuveni – Salt Peanuts, March 2023.
All Tracks Recorded by Bruno Levee on 8th Feb 2020 at AJMI Avignon France
Guitar – Andy Moor
Analogue Synthesiser – Thomas Lehn
Tenor & Soprano Saxophone – John Butcher
Mixed by Thomas Lehn
Mastered by Andy Moor
Cover image: Andy Moor
Design: Isabelle Vigier
Heretics
Heretics
“Heretics is a series of portraits of radical heretical figures found throughout the history of schismatic thinking.Heretics like Caravaggio, William Burroughs, Jose Mujica, Marquis de Sade and Johnny Rotten, fascinated the artists. These influential figures are presented here in the form of poetic texts and catchy melodies combined with experimental noise.” -Unsounds
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‘Heretics’ was recorded at La Muse en Circuit (Paris), and first performed live at the Theatre de Saint Nazaire, in 2015. The making of Heretics is documented in a film made by Benoît Bourreau.
Anne-James Chaton: voice, guitar, electronics
Thurston Moore: voice, guitar
Andy Moor: guitar, electronics, voice
Handmade Series Vol. 02 – Brillants
Handmade Series Vol. 02 – Brillants
Andy Moor and Anne-James Chaton present the second installment in their new collection of digital singles. The Handmade series is an homage to craftsmanship through an exploration of the lexicons specific to traditional metiers. It unfolds over the course of 4 thematic volumes. With guest Yannis Kyriakides on electronics they create works where abstract notions mix with tangible ones by linking the arts of the hand with sound and poetry.
In volume two, ‘Brillants’, Anne-James Chaton takes the precious stones to unexpected places, in his best style: equivocal and a little dark, with great literary sophistication. Side A ‘The Blue Moon’ names extraordinary diamonds as if they were superstars projecting deep hues around them, as on a cinema screen. On Side B, ‘Mon Chaton,’ the poet plays with the curious ambiguities of the jewelers’ jargon.
‘Handmade’ was conceived in the spirit of ‘Transfer,’ a collection of 7 inch vinyl, and later a full album on CD and DL, based on the theme of ‘Transition,’ published on Unsounds in 2013.
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Texts et voice : Anne-James Chaton
Guitar : Andy Moor
Electronics : Yannis Kyriakides
Mixed and mastered by Andy Moor and Yannis Kyriakides
Collection design: Isabelle Vigier
Handmade Series Vol. 01 – Douceurs
Handmade Series Vol. 01 – Douceurs
Handmade – a series of 4 digital singles
Volume 01 : Douceurs
Texts and voice : Anne-James Chaton
Guitar : Andy Moor
Electronics : Yannis Kyriakides
Design Isabelle Vigier
Production Lebeau et Associés and Unsounds records
Folia
Folia
“Folia” is the third CD collaboration of Andy Moor (guitar) and Yannis Kyriakides (computer) created in 2009 and performed in numerous festivals and concerts that year. It is an epic reworking of the famous tune from the 16th and 17th centuries called “La Folia”. Fusing influences from this and South American folk music, they create a unique sound world of slowly evolving soundscapes, fluctuating beats, and rich oscillating harmonies.” -Unsounds
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Folia is based on a famous tune from the 16th and 17th century called “La Folia” of which there have been many versions composed. Its origin is probably Portugese and may have come from a trance-like dance in which the participants become possessed and as the name suggests have gone ‘out of their minds’.
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Computer – Yannis Kyriakides
Guitar – Andy Moor
Mastered By – Foppe Talman
Recorded By, Mixed By – Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides
Artwork by – Isabelle Vigier
Recorded at Stockhausen Studio K.C. The Hague Sep. 4 2009.
Mastered at Vintage Audio.
Experiments with a Leaf
Experiments with a Leaf
The two meet in the middle of the road, so to speak, for this quick half-hour session of maxed-out microtones. It’s an excitingly subdued and intense listen, and while it’s laudable not to follow the compulsion to load the disc to its 80-minute capacity, the one track that stretches past 10 minutes suggests there’s much more ground left for them to cover. -Kurt Gottschalk
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Guitar [Guitars] – Andy Moor
Saxophone [Saxophones] – John Butcher
Recorded live on 26 October 2013 at »zoom in« festival, Münster, Berne, Switzerland,
Mastered By – Andy Moor
Mixed By – John Butcher
Music By – Andy Moor, John Butcher
Photography By [Bird Photos By] – Andy Moor
Recorded By – Fabio Oehrli
Design by Isabelle Vigier
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Everything But The Beginning
Everything But The Beginning
Colin McLean – computer
Andy Moor – guitar / cassette machine
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Recorded live in Amsterdam between June 2006 and November 2007 during Music Dance 301 sessions, a monthly series where musicians and dancers improvise at OT301, except Delta Block and Waiting for the angels which were live duo improvisations recorded November 29 2007 at OT301, Amsterdam.
Text on Waiting for the angels from Fort Capuzzo by Scots poet Hamish Henderson, from Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica, 1947.
All music by Andy Moor (PRS) and Colin McLean.
Caruso
Caruso
Irish composer David Fennessy is known for his intricate textures and arresting harmonies: the four works presented on this album, Caruso (Gold is the Sweat of the Sun), and the viola driven triptych Hauptstimme, Nebenstimme, and Nox, represent the many facets of his inventive music.
The music in Caruso (Gold is the Sweat of the Sun) is almost completely made up of very short extracts from gramophone recordings of the Italian tenor opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) dated between 1903 and 1908, which are looped, stretched and combined to form a kind of ‘choir.’ The electric guitar, played by David himself, is a representation of an obsessive, creative force at the centre of the relentless river of sound of the myriad of voices.
The three other works on the album, Nox, Hauptstimme and Nebenstimme, create a fascinating perspective on the idea of the individual, in relation to the collective.
Nox, written for the violist Garth Knox, is like a portrait of the musician. The open string, first a C then a G is explored in all its rich sonic glory. Conversely, in Hauptstimme, it is as if the viola player, this time Megumi Kasakawa, struggles to convey their individuality against the backdrop of the forces of Ensemble Modern, but this is intentional. According to the composer: “For much of the time, the solo viola is buried in a thick ensemble texture with the primary goal merely to be heard. Once it has achieved this, a more complex question emerges – what to say?”
Nebenstimme, the final part of the triptych, is like a photographic negative of Hauptstimme. What was before a loud, forceful rhythm in the percussion, is transformed here into a delicate, ornamented chorale in the celesta. The viola remains the solo instrument but is in this case shy and uncertain.
credits
released April 10, 2026
David Fennessy, Ensemble Modern, Megumi Kasakawa, Garth Knox, Michel Maurer & Pete Dowling.
Made with financial support from RCS Athenaeum Award, Vaughan Williams Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation.
“Caruso (Gold is the Sweat of the Sun)” recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 08/2016.
Recorded and mixed by Pete Dowling.
“Hauptstimme” recorded at Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 18/07/2020.
Recording Producer – Martin Rust
Recording Engineer – Arnd Coppers
Recorded and mixed by Martin Rust
Executive producer Harry Vogt
P) A production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 2020; Licensed by WDR mediagroup GmbH)
“Nebenstimme” and “Nox” recorded in the chapel at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 31/05/2023.
Recorded by Christophe Hauser.
“Caruso”, “Hauptstimme” and “Nebenstimme” are published by Universal Edition.
All music by David Fennessy.
Mastered by Yannis Kyriakides.
Design by Isabelle Vigier.
Break The Record (Remastered)
Break The Record (Remastered)
Break the Record was originally created by Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor in reaction to the Olympics in London in 2012. After the Games in Paris this summer, and 12 years on, Andy Moor and DJ rupture are revisiting this urgent, political piece.
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Music Andy Moor and DJ Rupture
Text Anne-James Chaton.
English Version Remix by DJ Rupture
Design by Isabelle Vigier
Read more on www.unsounds.com
Track 1. Break The Record Remastered (French version) 3:40
Voice : Anne-James Chaton
Music : Andy Moor
Text : Anne–James Chaton
Track 2. Break The Record Remastered (English Version) 3:40
Voice : DJ Rupture
Music : Andy Moor
Text : Anne–James Chaton
Track 3. Break The Record Remastered (Instrumental Version) 3:40
Music : Andy Moor
Track 4. Break The Record Remastered (English Version Remix by DJ Rupture) 3:00
Music : DJ Rupture & Andy Moor
Text : Anne-James Chaton
All tracks remastered by Andy Moor Oct 2024
A Life Is A Billion Heartbeats
A Life Is A Billion Heartbeats
“A Life Is A Billion Heartbeats” continues Yannis Kyriakides + Andy Moor’s exploration and mining of the rich and mysterious terrain of Greek rebetika music from the early 20th century.” -Unsounds
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Andy Moor – electric guitar & baritone guitar
Yannis Kyriakides – computer & analogue synths
Recorded at STEIM, Zaal 100, Jottem Studios between 2011-2014.
Mixed and mastered by Yannis and Andy
Artwork by Isabelle Vigier
3 ÂNES
3 ÂNES
Benjamin Bondonneau, Lionel Marchetti and Xavier Charles form the trio Locus Asper Locus. The acoustic instrument ensemble relies on improvisation and a choice of electronic tools to push the exploration of the Sib clarinet to the extreme, as much for its capacity to produce high intensity ‘noise’ as finesse. Inspired by Voyage with a donkey in the Cévennes by R. L. Stevenson, the trio sets off on an hike in the Périgord, for a few summer days. They will experience the very varied territories through listening, and through the creation of sonic universes inspired by what’s around them, accompanied by the three donkeys who are also their first audience. The three musicians are equipped with packages, instruments, active speakers, a synthesizer, cables and effect pedals, all on batteries for complete autonomy. They choose beautiful sites where they improvise, installing their recording systems in the open air. The tranquil mules lend an attentive ear while nature vibrates and the clarinets converse in the July heat.
Digital release and CD with leporello.
Design by Isabelle Vigier with illustrations by Benjamin Bondonneau.