Colin Riley (piano, keyboard, electronics), Elisabeth Nygård (voice), Ben Jarlett (sound manipulation), Joe Jarlett (live video), Zoe Martlew/ Natalie Rosario (cello), Pete Wilson (bass), Rob Millett (percussion).
'Fold takes some time to unravel but is worth all the effort'.' (Selwyn Harris, Jazzwise)
'Colin Riley has a restless spirit. Though routinely identified as a classical composer, his activities in the past few years have resisted categorisation: he founded the Homemade Orchestra with jazz saxophonist Tim Whitehead and has helped put together iF, the adventurous Isleworth festival. MooV, which he formed with Norwegian singer Elisabeth Nygård, foregrounds Riley's compositions, yet it is closer to the fractured soundworld of Scandinavian artists such as Efterklang, or Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. While tracks such as Pure and Coil are austere and somewhat alienating in the correct, northern European manner, Beautiful Wounds and Fall Away are poised and engaging. The album is structured in such a way that it improves on repeated listening, and Nygård's voice meshes beautifully with Riley's spare orchestrations, wrought from keyboards, bass, electronics, cello (Zoe Martlew) and percussion (Rob Millett)'. ( John L Walters, The Guardian )
'Moov consists of an ensemble of genre-phobic artists who between them usually orbit the worlds of computer-based music, contemporary classical, jazz and film.' (Jazzwise)
Many thanks for including us here among your friends. We enjoy these tracks very much, and are so impressed by Elizabeth's vocal gymnastics in Fire! Colin, we also love the pieces you composed for Piano Circus.
Hello Colin how's it all going? Really looking forward to meeting up with you soon i hope! Come and see us as a fourpiece - i think you'd like it...! All the best, Jo x
