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Adam Moore News & Updates
(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.
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. (29/06/2010) Good news of a very live variety. It’s now time to announce the first performance by The Adam Moore Band. The new line-up will be playing material from all four of my albums plus a few new tunes and a couple of covers. It’s a fantastic band with Matt Dove on drums, Paul Williams on Bass and Al Watts on guitar and keys. These are three of the best players I know and its been wonderful rehearsing with them for the last few months. We’ll be making our first appearance at Norwich’s Marquee on July 22nd with the excellent Norwich pop-metal band Elixir. Also, I’ve now formed of a jazz group, called The Babelfish Quartet, with Matt Hodges on keys, Owen Morgan on bass and Finn Booth on drums. We’ve confirmed a first show at Norwich’s Art Centre on September 22nd, but hopefully we’ll be able to get out for a couple of warm-up gigs beforehand. This should be a seriously cool band playing some very sexy jazz, some originals and some of the more choice standards. All the players a great jazz musicians and fantastic improisers. Shiny promotional materials for both these bands will follow in the next few weeks. (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 (12/06/2010) Last night’s short Mary Lovett & the Cognoscenti performance at Norwich Arts Centre was fun, good for shaking the cobwebs off and trying out some new material- thanks to Chad and Shane for organising the night. Various plans are afoot for The Cogs this year: We’re working on the remaining tracks for a new album, talking to a lovely film maker about a music video and working on a new touring format. Mary’s new songs are just stunning so brace yourself for some beautiful stuff in coming months. You will notice also that Church and State now has its own page at evesound.com. I'll be getting all things moody and ambient together right there. (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.
(03/06/2010) Just a reminder that a couple of shows with Amit Chaudhuri are coming up. Tomorrow we'll be in Oxford at the North Wall Arts Centre starting at 8pm and on Saturday we'll be at the University of East Anglia playing a free gig as part of the Cosmopolis Festival. This one starts at 6:40 in the marquee near the drama studio. (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.... (08/05/2010) Mary Lovett was on BBC Radio Norfolk yesterday with Jo Carr and Derek Williams from City College. Mary's song Sweetest Smile got a play, this has Mary on piano and singing and me doing the rest. We're planning to tour this year so keep an eye out for dates....I can now tick off playing drums, bass and glockenspeil on the BBC from my 'stuff to do in this lifetime' list. Visit the BBC iPlayer here. (06/05/2010) I've posted the audio portion of my tune The Colourless Apple video on my myspace player and made its available for download. It's a pretty sweet version, so if you want it on your stereo then help yourself. Also, I can't convince myspace that I'm not playing in Denmark today. So if you're reading the dates and have become confused fear not. Today I am not in Denmark. I will be on 2nd September. Right, I'm off to vote... (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! (10/02/2010) Some Amit Chaudhuri Band dates are starting to trickle through for 2010. So far we have a date in Denmark in May and another in Oxford in June. More will be appearing shortly. Also, keep an eye out for a full UK tour in November/December. (06/02/2010) Last week's Church & State performance sounded great and was well attended. Thanks to all those who came. We recorded it direct from the desk and will be mixing the results over the next few weeks. (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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