Jim Moray
Jim Moray
Genres: folk, singer-songwriter, british, english folk, english
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About Jim Moray
Jim Moray (born Douglas Oates in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on 20 August 1981) is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is one-half of False Lights, along with singer and guitarist Sam Carter. While studying classical composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Moray released the home-recorded "I Am Jim Moray" EP in 2001. During 2002 he appeared at the Glastonbury Festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival. A nomination for the "Horizon Award" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2003 followed before he began work on his first full-length album, Sweet England. The album was recorded in his bedroom while completing his final year of study. Sweet England was released in June 2003 on his own Niblick Is A Giraffe record label. At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2004, he was presented with the Album of the Year Award for Sweet England and the Horizon Award for best newcomer. He was also nominated twice in the Best Traditional Song category for Early One Morning and Lord Bateman. Moray's eponymous second album was released on 1 May 2006. Moving away from the electronic sound of Sweet England, it features a more orchestral sound and denser song structures. His third album, Low Culture, was released on 14 July 2008. On this album, he makes use of African kora, the melodeon, mandolin, and mbira thumb piano. Low Culture won the fRoots Critics Poll Album of the Year 2008 and was the MOJO Folk Album of the Year 2008. It was also nominated for the Album of the Year Award in the BBC Folk Awards 2009. In 2010, Moray's fourth album, In Modern History, was released. Moray's fifth studio album, Skulk, was released on Bandcamp in January 2012. In 2014, along with singer and guitarist Sam Carter, Moray launched a new band named False Lights to play traditional music with electric instruments. Moray's sixth album, Upcetera, was released on 30 September 2016. It was nominated for Best Album and Best Original Track for Sounds of Earth at the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. On Moray's seventh album, The Outlander, he explores a more stripped-down style of playing and arranging influenced by the British folk revival of the 1960s and '70s and featuring Bellowhead fiddle player Sam Sweeney on six tracks. In February 2023, Moray entered Abbey Road Studios to re-record songs from across his career to celebrate 21 years of recording and performing. These recordings were released as Beflean in November 2023, and named as Tradfolk.co's album of the year. Aside from all of his own albums, Moray has produced other artists, initially from his own studio in Bristol.
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