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I'm just another fretless bass player, but shorter.

The rough mix and demo tracks here are to appear on my forthcoming solo album, "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair..." which I hope to release soon. I've written the music and played the instruments.  I have used and occasionally adapted the poetry of my life partner Vienna Forrester. She has a knack of creating strong visuals in her poems and I wanted to showcase her talents and fulfil my need to release my musical work to the general public, hence the reason for this album. I am deliberately trying to stay away from the notion that songs must follow a rhyming verse chorus pattern so think of these lyrics as poetry (which is what they are) and you'll get the idea. Of course, this also means that commercialism is out the window but all I ask is that you listen and if you like what you hear, that's fine by me... if you don't, that's also fine. I just want to be happy with what I create but if it makes you happy too, then that's a bonus.

Thanks for reading and listening.
Ian

Indy/Country/Americana-y songs - please listen, share, comment… ta very much

Abi Moore is an Americana / Roots Rock artist from Nottingham.

It’s almost a decade since the release of Abi's last album – nine years in which Abi Moore experienced breakups, losing her home, lots of moving, touring, burnout and, eventually, a fresh comeback. 

After the success of Amoeba & Stone in 2014, Abi Moore promised herself she wouldn’t return to original solo music until she produced something unexpected, sonically exciting and not written via her usual habit of sitting down with an acoustic guitar. Says Abi: 
“Most of the music that excites me is somewhere on the rock spectrum, 
whether it’s bluesy, rootsy, folky, grungy, or country/ Americana- 
influenced. Even the Laurel Canyon artists I love sit at the rock end of 
the 70s folk/rock genre. I thought a lot about what excites me as a 
listener and had to question why I wasn’t making that sound myself. 
Once I stopped caring about other people’s expectations of me, I bought a Telecaster, stompbox, some pedals and I found a sound that lit me up.” 

Steering purposely away from the demure, acoustic singer/songwriter box she was often mistakenly assigned to, (“I’d rather not fit any box than be stuck in the same one forever,”) she challenged herself to write from the gut instead of the head. Avoiding any overthinking, over-editing or careful crafting to achieve a less considered, more gutsy feel, Abi instead “let out some impulsive, raw emotion in the moment. It’s the sound of my rebel self not filtering its thoughts before it speaks.” 

The result is her new, fourth studio album, No More Chasing. It’s a sonic experiment– every song comes from a unique writing stimulus: one written in silence in her head, another over the drone of her cooker hood, some only with strings, to the beat of her car’s window wipers, from ideas she had in dreams, or to a rhythm stamped passionately into her kitchen floor with her flamenco shoes on. 

No More Chasing sounds like the vocal harmonies of indie-folk band The Staves met the primal guitar riffage of Jack White, via the folk-rock stylings of Fleetwood Mac, the bluesy vibrancy of British duo Ferris & Sylvester, the attitude of When Rivers Meet and the southern gothic edge of Suzanne Santo. 

It’s a unique space that Abi takes up. With influences from 50s rockabilly, 70s blues-rock, 90s singer/songwriter pop-rock and early 00s garage-rock, the end result is an Americana / Roots-Rock sound all of her own. It’s edgy, unafraid and unpredictable. Sometimes we only know it’s Abi because of her one constant signature instrument: her urgent yet soulful vocals, delivered with utter conviction and punctuated by impressive harmonised backing vocals. They are still the main focus, but this record is undeniably her rock moment, and the music is more visceral and looser than her previous work.

Indie/Surf punk and Garage infused jams. Give me a listen and follow me! I've got cats to feed!

I also dabble in science.

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