Sunday 17 June 2018, 7.30pm
The duo of writer, poet and artist Anne-James Chaton and The Ex's Andy Moor produce a sound where poetry and guitar combine in explorations of thematic axes. With their project ‘Heretics’, they revive obscure, violent, erotic passions; summoning the great figures of their personal mythologies. In the company of Caravaggio, Marquis de Sade, William Burroughs and figures such as Jose Mujica, the duo immerses the listener in another world history peopled by radical thinkers.
‘Heretics’ pays homage to those heroes who have used transgression and excess as a necessary means for creation. In this new album, recorded live at the Carreau du Temple in Paris on the occasion of Périphérie du 35e Marché de la Poésie (2017), Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor deliver a radical work at the confines of literary and musical creation.
Tonight they celebrate the release of new CD “Tout ce que je sais” on Unsounds:
http://unsounds.com/shop/tout-ce-que-je-sais-cd
Born in London England 1962 Andy began his musical life in Edinburgh, Scotland playing guitar with the band Dog Faced Hermans, In 1990 he moved to the Netherlands after an invitation to join Dutch band The Ex whuch he is still a full time member of.
In more recent years Andy has collaborated with amongst others Yannis Kyriakides (Cypriot composer)), Anne James Chaton (french sound poet), Christine Abdelnour (Lebanese Paris based saxaphonist). He has also worked composing soundtracks for films with Iranian filmaker Bani Khoshnoudi. His latest projects include a quartet with Ken Vandermark , Terrie Ex and Paal Nilssen Love called Lean Left. The Heretics project with Anne James Chaton more recently with the departure of Thurston Moore has become a duo project which they began touring n 2017. In November 2019 Andy began a new project with Marion Coutts from Dog Faced Hermans . In 2020 he began a duo with Scottish composer and performance artist Genevieve Murphy called “The One I feed “ with guitar text and reel to reel tape machine.. End of 2021 also saw Andy begin work as a live DJ and radio producer as DJ ANDY EX) and has been working with Amsterdam based Echobox Radio and does a live show every four weeks on a Friday. The shows are all archived on Mixcloud and is called Blueprints For A Blackout.
Anne-James Chaton is a writer, poet and artist living in Paris. He explores the relations between spoken words & music, both in concert situation and on recordings.
“One of the most enigmatic voices in spoken word.” – The Quietus
Jenna Collins is an artist based in London who works with video, text and music. She makes works about narrative and filmmaking that are by turns dark, funny, deadpan and surreal. Born in London in 1973 she moved to Manchester in the early 90’s, experimenting with the creative potential of computers and the internet with the group IDEA, returning to London in 2006 to undertake MA and PhD/doctoral studies at Goldsmiths and Kingston School of Art.
Collins frequently works in collaboration; with artist and musician Paul Carr (performances at art Camden Arts Centre 2014, and Modern Art Oxford 2015); with artist Rachel Cattle (performances include the ICA 2016); with sound collective Erinyes (performances include Deptford X 2016 and the RCA 2017); with We Are Publication collective (includes broadcasts on Resonance FM 2015); and with artist Alice Rekab (exhibition and performance at Five Years Gallery and forthcoming performance at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston). Her solo video and sound works have been exhibited and screened widely including Quick Millions, London; Case Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba, and the 59th London International Film Festival, with works for radio broadcast on Radiophrenia FM Glasgow, and Radio Quancitca, Lisbon, Portugal.
