Davey Ray Moor, Music

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Subject Leader, Commercial Music

Personal Statement:

Having sold over 300,000 albums, each of which received consistent critical praise (see below), my songwriting, production and performance career informs and grounds my teaching practice with healthy measures of tangible industrial experience.

Building on an established career as a film and TV composer, I bring to my teaching an ability to focus both musical and visual semiotics, which all come together within the all important process of marketing and launching musical products into an increasingly competitive industry.

Here is what other people have said about my work....Thanks for inquiring!

The melodies float from heaven to hell like Burt Bacharach standards. Silky without being slick, even when sorrowful like boulevardier Jacques Brel. A sophisticated realm of edgy, romantic pop

Rolling Stone, USA

These songs evoke a swirling rapture of the deep reminiscent of David Bowie, Bryan Ferry and Nick Cave at their most unguardedly romantic. It's a sophisticated and unsettling sound.

The New York Times

Moor's songs are genuinely lovely creations arranged, Bacharach-style, with discreet double-bass, piano and horn textures. Their greatest gift, though, is in the melodies, oozing haunted disaffection and melodrama underpinned by a sizzling sense of glamour.

The Independent

Sincere songwriting and catchy melodies... Beautifully crafted with the timeless feel of songwriters like Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello and Leonard Cohen. The perfect songs for a heartbroken listener

Billboard, USA

He provides the songs of distinction that every lovelorn vocalist needs, but doesn't always have. Moor's lyrics deal with broken souls, doomed romance and dislocated lives, all underscored by a lonely lustfulness.

The Guardian (Album of The Week)

Like sobbing in front of Chet Baker and Nick Drake and finding your tears have turned into rhinestones. Perfumed intrigue, late-night melancholy and a shag-pile sensuality- which, despite being romantic, never once sinks into mawkish sentimentality. Perfect poise and irresistably bruised glamour.

Time Out

Just quietly beautiful..... Darkness can be strangely welcoming.

NME

Professional Qualifications:

Teaching Fellow, Bath Spa University 2009

Masters Degree in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Gold Album (Cousteau 2001 - 230,000 sales)

BAFTA (1998 soundtrack for Best Documentary, DMP Productions' Dispatches, Ch4)

Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:

Member of Performing Rights Society/MCPS

Teaching Specialism:

Songwriting, contemporary music production, performance and marketing

Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:

ADVERTS - UK+International

Nintendo, Pepsi, Bacardi, Budweiser, Sony, Nissan, Remington, Siemens, Smarties, Clearasil, Cover Girl, Capri Sun

TELEVISION TITLES AND IDENT COMPOSITION

Over 200 title sequences for

BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, MTV, VH1, Sky, Sky Movies, Playboy, History Channel, Weather Channel, Cartoon Network, Bravo

DOCUMENTARY SOUNDTRACKS

Dispatches ALF (1998 BAFTA winner), Crackdown (Ch4), Murder Hotel, Secrets of The Saucermen, Killer Lightning (CH5), Sex Bomb (Ch4 Secret History), Sex in the 90's (Ch4), NHS Postcode Lottery (Dispatches, Ch4)

DANCE THEATRE

Renegade Theatre at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, Nov 30-Dec 1 2007.
Recommended in Time Out, London, Four-star review in The Guardian Nov 2007

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM RELEASES

(as songwriter, producer or performer)

- Remote Luxury, The Church, EMI
- Persia (UK), The Church, EMI
- From Now On, The Crystal Set, RedEye Records
- Va Va Voom, Cinerama, Cooking Vinyl
- Cousteau, Cousteau, Palm Pictures
- Sounds Eclectic Too, KCRW Records
- The First Blood Mystery, Carina Round - Animal Noise Records
- Sing A Song For You - A Tim Buckley Tribute - Manifesto Records
- Sirena, Cousteau, Palm Pictures
- Dove Sei Tu, Cristina Dona, Mescal Records
- Cristina Dona, Cristina Dona, Rykodisc
- Mambassa, Mambassa, Mescal Records
- Telepathy, Davey Ray Moor, Lakeshore Entertainment
- Lubjan, Lubjan, Fire Records
- Ballads for Little Hyenas, Afterhours, One Little Indian

LIVE TOUR SUPPORTS

Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Nico, The Violent Femmes, Paul Kelly, The Damned, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Flaming Groovies, David Gray, The Dandy Warhols, Goldfrapp, Nick Cave, Del Amitri, The Go-Betweens, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, They Might Be Giants,

LIVE BROADCAST PERFORMANCES

Later with Jools Holland, The Craig Kilborn Show (LA), MTV, VH1, The World Café (NYC), Rai 1, NPR Network Radio, KCRW LA, Jonathan Ross (BBC2), Janice Long (BBC2), Richard Allison (BBC2), XFM , GLR, London Live, KMTT Seattle, WYEP Pitsburgh, The River Boston, Oui FM Paris, Radio Monte Carlo Rome, WHFS Annapolis,

FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES

Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds, Edinburgh Fringe, Fleadh, Pukklepop, The Gavin Convention USA, Fete De La Musique, Festival Bar, Immola, Arrezzo Wave Festival, Ronnie Scott's Songwriting Festival

TOURED TERRITORIES

USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Canada