Guitar Poetry Tour brings together poets and guitarists "on stage" and abolishes the boundaries of two different scenes from the world of contemporary artistic expression.
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
Thurston Moore was born in 1958 in the state of Florida. He moved to New York for good in October 1979 and started the following bands: The Coachmen and the Untouchables then Sonic Youth with Kim Gordon in June 1981, in which he was guitarist and lead vocalist until the band split up in 2012. He has also played with many artists from a wide variety of artistic scenes. At 24, he was hired by Glenn Branca to play in his guitar quartet, quintet then octet. That was followed by a fleeting appearance with the little known Thick Pigeon on Two Crazy Cowboys (1984). He played with the Dutch band The Ex on their album Joggers and Smoggers (1989). (He reunited with them for In The Fishtank in 2002 with Sonic Youth and I.C.P.).
Andy Moor (The Ex)
In the 90s, Andy Moore joined The Ex for numerous productive collaborations. Moore has also worked with stage musicians such as Han Bennink (drummer), Ab Baars (saxophone), Wolter Wierbos (trombone), Michael Vatcher (drummer), Djibril Diabate (West African harp), John Butcher (saxophone) and Anne-James Chaton (sound poet). For the past few years, Andy Moor has cultivated a strong relationship with the Amsterdan improv scene and grown close to electronic musicians. Similarly, he has composed the scores of many films and formed strong ties with dancers such as Magpie Music and the dance company Katie Duck by performing alongside them on a regular basis.
Anne-James Chaton
Anne-James Chaton develops a multipolar work anchored in the assiduous reading of the textual materiality that structures the lives of contemporary societies. This bastard literature, made up of various documents published by countless machines, ATM receipts, register receipts, promotional leaflets, loyalty cards, business cards, tickets, etc., fuels a poetic, sound and visual investigation developed in individual projects or in collaboration with artists from other backgrounds.
Jean-Michel Espitallier
An impossible to label poet, Jean-Michel Espitallier (born October 4, 1957) plays on multiple keyboards following approaches that are constantly being renewed. Lists, misappropriations, rhythmic loops, false theorems, logical and absurd proposals, and fallacies debunk the overused concept of poetry by inventing new forms in order to continue to bring into play all the weirdness of language and to test its limits. He writes books, plays drums, tinkers with sound objects and dabbles in everything that touches him. He is currently working on several multimedia projects while leading a side career as as a drummer.