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Adam Moore News & Updates
(19/01/2012) Some footage has surfaced from the Amit Chaudhuri Band trip to New York in November of 2011. We're on the last quarter of the film;
I'm told the full concert exists somewhere, so hopefully we can get hold of it pretty soon. (17/01/2012) Happy Birthday Dad! In other news, some new dates: The Bablefish Quartet at The Workshop, Norwich, on 24th February and Thirteenth Sign at King Edward VII, Norwich, on the 12th May and 15th June. (15/01/2012) Happy New Year everyone! Lots to report, so I shall do so in brief: The Duck & Covers New Year gig was really good, with highlights including the whole of Bohemian Rhapsody and Won’t Get Fooled Again. The Ducks will be taking things up a gear in 2012 and playing some more events (weddings, parties and such) so do get in contact via info@duckandcovers.co.uk if you’d like to book our particular brand of high energy pop and rock covering.
Nina Baker’s EP Teacup in a Storm will be released on 3rd February, with a launch party and performance at Norwich’s Marzano’s bar. I’m part of the band, alongside the excellent Simon Dring on drums and Fred Hollis on bass.
The members of The Duck & Covers (Me, Brother Matt, David Thaxton, Kris Winser and Lloyd Stringer) also have an original project named Unborn Twin. We’ll be debuting our EP at London’s Bush Hall on April 12th this year. Tickets are on sale here and the band’s new website is here
Thirteenth Sign have released a free download EP Implosion of the Senses in advance of the full album. This includes two of the new studio tracks to which I contributed solos.
(23/12/2011) Merry Christmas everyone! Matt has completed mixing the Church & State performance in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. Here's his choice of the pieces, #2:
(11/12/2011) Whilst fighting evil illnesses and between boughts of enforced sleep, made it across to Cottenham in Cambridgeshire for an excellent Church & State performance with Brother Matt. This had some great moments so I'm hoping we can make some of it available soon. Seems this music does actually cure the sick (well, me at least). Stuart Aldous of Fenscape Recordings was in attendance and brought some copies of the C&S Live in Huntingfield CD. This is a great little release and worth picking up. I still think this is some of the best music I've every played in public. (08/12/2011) This first review of Church & State: Live at Huntingfield Church (Fenscape Recordomgs) has come in from Norman Records. Very nice it is too: "Oh, this is lovely. Church & State is a collaborative project between two brothers, Adam and Matthew Moore, with Adam playing guitar while Matthew processes and manipulates the sounds. What we’re left with is something which doesn’t sound an awful lot like a guitar...there’s an almost synthy quality to the melodic washes on display here - immersive cosmic meditations that I’m sure must’ve sounded wonderful in its original setting of Huntingfield Church in rural Suffolk...read the rest here" (03/12/2011) I haven't released any instrumental guitar music for ages and fancied putting at least something out there, as I've got so much good music sitting around on my computer doing nobody any good. So here's something with a vaguely Christmassy title I made about a year ago. Hope you enjoy it. Happy Christmas one and all! That Which Falls, Falls as Snow
(01/12/2011) I've been working on some music for Nina Baker recently and we played live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on Monday. Here's the studio footage:
(19/11/2011) Footage and images are starting to come through from some recent gigs. Here's Dean Neal and I on stage with Thirteenth Sign in Huddersfields:
Also, last night's Babelfish Quartet gig in Ipswich was really good and we got a pretty great recording from it. Brother Matt recorded it and we mixed it today. This is likely to appear in bits in different settings in the next few months. (13/11/2011) Great first gig with Thirteenth Sign in Huddersfield last night. Very loud and lots of fun. Photos coming soon. Selby, North Yorks next month should be even better. Other good news: Stuart Aldous at Fenscape Recordings is releasing a limited run of Church & State: Live at Huntingfield Church and will be with us at Cottenham Church, Cambs on December 9th with copies of the first batch. Behold!...
(12/11/2011) Blimey these are busy times! The Amit Chaudhuri Band's visit to New York's Asia Society last week was a great success: Lovely music, food, beautiful people and generally living life as one ought. Last night's gig at The Workshop with The Babelfish Quartet was cool, dirty, sweaty and had some great moments. Thanks to those who came along. We're at St. Peter's Church in Ipswich on Friday where we'll be recording our set and then hopefully putting out some demos of the original tunes. Tonight I'm in Huddersfield with the charming gentlemen of Thirteenth Sign for the first live outing of the tracks from Rise of the Black Angel. In the next few weeks I should be making some radio appearances with singer-songwriter Nina Baker. More to follow on this. (19/09/2011) Right, here's were the gigs are at: Amit Chaudhuri Band will be playing at the India/China Festival, New York City on November 5th, Thirteenth Sign at The Parish in Huddersfield on the 12th Nov and The Babelfish Quartet at St. Peter's Church in Ipswich on the 18th November. I think that'll all stay put! (09/09/2011) Various things on the go: Thirteenth Sign gigs are starting to come in. We're hopefully playing Norwich (tbc), Selby and Wakefield (tbc) in November and December with more to come. Also, the Babelfish Quartet are working on some new material, as are Sally and I, the Guitar Idol contest is still going so get over there are vote for me, the Duck & Covers will be playing New Year's eve in Massingham. So much to do, so little time... (02/09/2011) The Duck & Covers now have a website, largely this will be to tell you when next we are playing at the Dubbling Duck in Massingham, but also to collect together bits of footage and audio. However, you may wish to book our particular brand of high energy pop silliness for your event or function, in which case trip on over to www.duckandcovers.co.uk
Also just organised a first acoustic duo gig with the lovely Sally Taylor at which we shall play many fine covers plus a few originals we've been working on. We'll be at The Rumsey Wells in Norwich on 26th September from 8pm. (21/08/2011) Busy times. Thanks to all those who came to see The Babelfish Quartet at Norwich's King of Hearts last week, there were some really special moments in both sets. Also, The Duck & Covers world tour of Massingham began and ended yesterday in triumphant style. Photos from both shows to follow soon. From master rock and roll photographer Kel Winser:
(L to R: Kris Winser, David Thaxton, Me, Lloyd Stringer, Matt was hidden behind his laptop) (31/07/2011) Excellent news! I’ve made it to the last hundred entries of Guitar Idol III. This is the last heat before the final and a London-based guitar show in November 2011 at which ten players will fight it out live. So if you think I deserve to be rated amongst the best guitarists in the world (I certainly do!) then follow this link, sign, up and vote Adam for a better future. I’ve entered the new version of Uppingham Down for this stage. http://www.guitaridol.tv/video/adam-moore/323 (24/06/2011) Some recent doings:
(26/05/2011) I've moved all my streaming music over to Soundcloud becasue its nicer there, here's a couple to listen to or you can follow this link to my Soundcloud page for a few more... Whipworms
Empress in the Beginning
(16/03/2011) Church & State now has its own site, to which we'll be uploading all sorts of bits and bots. We're playing at Norwich Arts Centre on April 8th and planning some very unusual performances in 2011. More to follow. (14/03/2011) New and exciting thing for 2011, I’ve joined Thirteenth Sign properly now and will be gigging with them later in the year. Here’s the most recent press release from bravewords.com: British death/thrash metal band THIRTEENTH SIGN have announced that they have a new lead guitarist, Adam Moore. Moore recorded all the solos on Thirteenth Sign's close to complete second album entitled Rise Of The Black Angel, and is currently rehearsing the new material for live shows. Thirteenth Sign comment: “We consider ourselves extremely privileged to have Adam as a part of Thirteenth Sign as he is probably the best guitarist we have ever met and has absolutely no ego! His solos on the new tracks are real highlights of the album, guitar fans will be able to hear influences from Friedman, Loomis and Petrucci in his playing as well as his own style and skills.” (05/03/2011) Last night's Church & State performance went very well, many thanks to all those who attended. (22/02/2011) After School Guitar Club has had its first review from minor7th.com and they've been jolly nice about it. Well done them Here it is. ..."one of the most compelling and alluring acoustic guitar recordings heard in recent years". Many thanks to Alan Fark and James Scott at minor7th for their attention. Three tracks from the album are currently on minor7th's podcast so go have a listen. (07/02/2011) EvesoundGuitar, my youtube channel, has now reached 100 lovely subscribers...and its my birthday. Yippee! (05/02/2011) Over the summer I played with the lovely and talented Matt Hodges and Owen Morgan on some jazz standards. Matt's been updating his site and has added an on-the-fly movie of us playing Angel Eyes. So, if you need more jazz in your life (or your bar, wedding, restaurant or palacial country home) contact Matt via www.simplyjazzband.co.uk
(30/01/2011) An interesting day indeed: This afternoon was spent with the genial Chris Hubbard of Thirtheen Sign learning guitar parts in preparation for touring the band’s new album Rise of the Black Angel. After that I booked the next performance by Church & State at Wootton Church, Norfolk for 4th March. Fact: There’s as many notes in a single Thirteenth Sign solo as an entire Church & State performance. I can’t even begin to get my head around the implications of a devote atheist working on a metal album detailing the rise of the crimson king and performing music that celebrates the calm of English churches. Join me as I embrace all manner of ambiguities. Details to follow. (24/01/2011) Saturday was spent recording death metal guitar solos with Brother Moore and the lovely boys from Thirtheen Sign. I did solos on eight of the nine new tracks. Look out for new album later in the year. (29/12/2010) I recorded this a few days ago in an attempt to encourage the guys at Guitar Euro Media to put me on their latest CD. Its their fusion backing and my widdling in Bb Dorian. As there's no sunshine in Britain at the moment, all my videos are recorded in semi darkness. I admit I could turn more lights on
(20/12/2010) Many thanks to Steve at Fretnet Radio, whose been playing tracks from Regent on his show over the last few months. I have no problem appearing on the same playlists as Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani and Frank Zappa. (19/12/2010) More evidence of The Adam Moore Band in its natural habitat. Scarfs abound at Norwich's Marquee. Sixteenth notes in 11/8 at near freezing is not easy.
(L to R) Paul Williams, Matt Dove, Me, Al Watts. (18/12/2010) On a cold cold night in December I did this...
(20/11/2010) Long train journey back from Glasgow today but worth it for a great slot on BBC 2's Review Show.
(18/11/2010) I'm playing live on BBC2 Review Show tomorrow night with Amit. We'll be doing One Fine Day from his new CD Found Music -Indian pop music in 10/8 to a million people. Other good news, baby Monty Watts is home and doing well. (02/11/2010) Great news leading to bad news. Al Watts, guitarist with The Adam Moore Band, has become a father seven weeks earlier than expected. Mum, Dad and 3-pound baby Monty are doing fine. This means, however, that our gig at Norwich's Marquee on November 11th has to be postponed until Monty is home. More to follow once we have a date. Its all go around here! (01/11/2010) The Amit Chaudhuri Band's performance in New York last week was a great success. Here we are doing our thing...
(L to R) Paul Williams, Matt Hodges, Amit Chaudhuri, Mayoohk Bhowmick, Me. (12/10/2010) Excellent BBC Radio 3 session this morning. Keep a listen out for us on Lopa Kothari's World on Three programme at 11:15 this Friday night. Also last night's gig at Charlotte Street Blues Bar was excellent, thanks to the many people who came to hear us.
(L to R) Hanif Khan, Matt Hodges, Owen Morgan, Amit Chaudhuri, Me. Owen stood in after Paul-the- (26/09/2010) Big news: Over the summer I was fortunate enough to have a couple of weeks with nothing planned. In my studio was a little note pinned to the board that read ‘make acoustic versions of some of your older songs’. This I did, oh yes. On six days spread over that two weeks I recorded twelve songs with varying numbers of overdubbed guitars. Some of these songs you’ll recognise from previous albums, some are new tunes which might well appear again on future releases and others are exclusive to this project. And After School Guitar Club is it…
You may have noticed a conspicuous lack of build-up to this release and this is mainly because I didn’t know it was going to happen. Here’s the track list: 1. The White Hart
(11 Guitars) (24/09/2010) The Babelfish Quartet's first outing at Norwich Arts Centre was a great success and we'll be doing more very soon. Here's a couple of shots of us in action...very slow, moody action. Firstly, the mighty Matt Hodges on keys and then Cath Evans, Owen Morgan and myself.
(L to R) Matt Hodges, Cath Evans, Owen Morgan, Me. (05/09/2010) Back from Herning, Denmark, where The Amit Chaudhuri Band played at the Heart Museum of Modern Art. Fun gig to an appreciative audience. Paul the Bass got this rather cool shot just before we left the hotel:
The Amit Chaudhuri Band now has a month off and then we'll be busy again in October playing London's Vortex and Rich Mix as well as The Charlotte Street Bar for the release of Amit's new CD Found Music, an appearance on Radio 4's Loose Ends and then New York's Rubin Museum at the end of the month. No doubt more dates to follow. (22/08/2010) In an on-going drive for world domination I've entered Uppingham Down in this year's Guitar Idol contest. It's getting plenty of views and feedback, so if you want to see the Regent crowned king then get over there and vote for me. (15/08/2010) The last few videos I've made have been with my Ovation and this one is no exception. Here's my entry for the Shred This III competition.
(04/08/2010) Part Two of the Composing for an Album has just gone up at Shredknowledge. (31/07/2010) I've just completed a small article for Shredknowledge called Composing for an Album. See what you think. (27/07/2010) This is the first piece of evidence of the Adam Moore Band in flight, taken on a camera phone in the heat and dark of Norwich’s Marquee last Thursday.
(L to R) Paul Williams, Matt Dove, Me, Al Watts. This was a fantastic gig for the four of us and certainly the best debut I’ve ever been a part of. Our set was: Portals, The Knot Garden, Fuchsia, Inca, Whipworms, Purple Circles, Afro Blue, The Green Man and Uppingham Down. I loved every minute of it and am really excited by what this band can do. If you didn’t see us then shame on you, make this the time to claim your place among the chosen. We’ll be adding some more tunes and developing things over coming months. Look out for more shows in Norwich before the summer is out. (13/05/2010) Just to let you know I got the runner up prize in the BRMS Guitar Wars contest, which is nice. That means I'll be getting a cool EMG pickup in the post. Here's the link to the contest. (10/07/2010) In his on-going attempt to do new and interesting things, Shedknowledge's Mark Thompson has put together a cool new stream of consciousness review on Regent. Could this be the way forward for music reviewing? Here it is. How about this for a quote: "Melodic, innovation, exciting, experimental, daring, Vai, Batman, tone, funk, moving, harmony, jazzy, SRV, sliding, slippery, more, slippery." (30/06/2010) I've just added a new-old piece to the downloads page. Go see. (24/06/2010) The next review for Regent has been very kindly written by Trevor Beckett at Do Fret. Writing about The Knot Garden, Trevor says, "...a mix of odd time signatures, fretless bass, synth and soaring lead lines combine to produce a memorable, multi-layered sound over which Adam plays some quite stunning lead." Here's the whole thing.... (21/06/2010) Those of you who've been listening to Regent and who have, in the past, looked kindly upon my work might enjoy a read of Chris Skinner's blog. Chris has produced all of the artwork for my releases to date, is an excellent fellow and his blog, Lestaret, is always worth a read. (13/06/2010) Hi all, some jolly charming words from Dave Thompson at Shred Reviews. He's written an article covering Regent and Curious Liquid. Pick your own glowing quote...I will. Shred Reviews: Adam Moore – Regent and Curious Liquid (11/06/2010) Wondrous news people! Regent is now available in a real-world, physical format that you can hold in you r very hands. CDs will be available shortly from Evesound.com and at gigs, which will be happening soon (more to follow on this).
Christopher Skinner's blog can be found here. Reading through it, you can follow our creative process for the cover design. (11/06/2010) A new interview has just been published on Shredknowledge.com. Here I am talking with Mark Thompson about all things guitar-ike and musical. Shredknowledge: Adam Moore Spotlight Interview (07/06/2010) "Paul Williams and Adam Moore delighted with a consistent dialogue...What will stay with me is the music; Amit’s band moved seamlessly through genres whilst retaining an individual style. The musicians worked together; measured, gauged and satisfyingly moved sounds into spaces between each other, as if achieving the perfect placement of colour on canvas." Read London Jazz Review of the Amit Chaudhuri Band's 2nd Oxford show here. (06/06/2010) Back from a couple of days of performances and bad service station food. Friday's performance at Oxford's Norwich Wall Arts Centre was good. We were joined on stage by Mark Rowan-Hull who painted whilst we played.
(02/06/2010) Dear all, as part of an ongoing enquiry into permutation I've been working on a lesson called The Broken Brain Game, which relates to permutations of beat division. The idea is that if you have a scale or pattern to want to practice you can increase and decrease the speed by changing the beat division rather than the metronome setting. As a consequence you get to explore some unique phrasing possibilities along the way. I've posted a video showing part of the exercise youtube and Shredknowledge.com is hosting a lesson with full pdf and such like. Here's The Broken Brain Game Pt. 1 at shredknowledge.com, and here's the video...
(01/06/2010) I've just completed an in-depth interview with the excellent blogger of all things guitar-like Laurie Monk at Truth in Shredding. Adam Moore: Atonal Ramblings with Laurie Monk (26/05/2010) I've just made a little video of me playing over one of my practice tracks. Pretty good I think...
(16/05/2010) Some late-breaking news, Mary Lovett & the Cogniscenti will be playing as part of the Acoustic Breakout sessions at The York Tavern in Norwich this Thursday. Show starts at 8pm. We have some new material to test, so come and get some.... (03/05/2010) Mark Thompson from Shred Knowledge has set up a Facebook Fanpage dedicated to me me me. Cool. Here it is:
(30/04/2010) Regent is now available for download via Amazon, so get in there, while infinitely reproducible stocks of downloads last. Click right here people:
(29/04/2010) I've started going back over tunes from Curious Liquid (2004) and The Colourless Apple is the first one to get some treatment. I haven't really played this tune since it was recorded. It's pretty simple, but I really like it, more so now than when I wrote it. Enjoy once again...
(24/04/2010) Mark Thompson and the very nice people at Shredknowledge.com have posted a lesson for the first part of Purple Circles from Regent. There's a transcription, backing track and video to play with. Here's the link. Look out for more stuff coming your way via this great little community of guitar players.
(20/04/2010) Excellent news! I've finally gotten the release of my second instrumental album sorted. Regent is available to download from CD Baby right now and iTunes, Napster, Sony Connect and all the normal download outlets will follow shortly. Click on the album cover below to go straight to the CD Baby page and spend, spend, spend. I’m so happy with this record, I think its pretty special.
I’m now finalising the rest of the artwork and some hard copies will be available in the next month or so. These will be available primarily through www.evesound.com. In addition, there will be a very exclusive 2 CD short run featuring Regent and Regent backing tracks on the second disc. This is so all you shredders out there can make me look silly by playing them better than me. (17/02/2010) Here's a good review of Amit Chaudhuri's This is Not Fusion album from All About Jazz. We'll be playing most of this album at our 2010 dates plus material from the forthcoming album. Even I don't know what the new record's called yet, but I'll tell you when I find out! (18/12/2009) Now seems to good time to introduce a new project by brother Matt called The Low Ebb. He has set about writing some everso good songs and hopefully we'll being hearing them live and all over the interweb this year.Here's the new myspace link. (15/11/2009) Last night's Amit Chaudhuri Band show at The Arts Depot in North Finchley was one of our finest. We were joined by the lovely Oliver Jarvis on tenor sax. Here we are in full flow.
(31/10/2009) A good Amit Chaudhuri Band gig in Oxford last night with a receptive audience- there was one very nice moment when Bart and I found we were spontaneously playing a new backing idea together in All India Radio, can’t remember it at all now thought! Here are some kind words about the Amit Chaudhuri Band from very important people from Rolling Stone Magazine to The Daily Telegraph to Stephen Fry, so take heed; 'Stunning', granta.com on the Amit Chaudhuri band at the Hay-on-Wye festival.
'Amit Chaudhuri's avowed aim is to come up with interesting juxtapositions of "East" and "West" without the banalities of fusion music – an aim we should all applaud... The results [at the Brecon Jazz Festival], combining his own ecstatic North Indian classical style with blues riffs, were engaging and unsentimental. And in Rain, which combined all this with a searching harmonic palette, they were touching, too.' Ivan Hewett in the Daily Telegraph on the Brecon Jazz Festival concert. 'A wholly original, absorbing performance that, while it is undeniably unusual and novel, wholly avoids the many pitfalls (chief among them glib superficiality and contrivance) frequently associated with "fusion".' Chris Parker, on the Vortex website, on the band's 2008 London Jazz Festival concert. 'Chaudhuri lets his music do the talking and it’s a measure of his growing stature in the notoriously snobbish world of jazz, that he was invited to perform at the internationally renowned and respected London Jazz Festival, late last year. It’s a mesmerising, challenging two-hour show offering insight into Chaudhuri’s remarkable "fusion"... Chaudhuri’s approach, born out of analyses of Indian classical music and contemporary western music, and conceptual and personal alchemy of music divided by thousands of years and miles, as well as language, religion, ethnicity and culture is extraordinary.' Rolling Stone (India) on the band's 2008 London Jazz Festival concert. 'An unalloyed pleasure... I really do love his voice and his style — and am very very touched by his thoughtfulness.' Stephen Fry. Here's the album we're currently touring:
(27/07/2008) Mary Lovett's fine new album Working to a Click has been released on Full Colour Music and although I didn't play on it but I did master it and it's these tunes plus a few extras that we are currently touring across the land.
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