MARCH 2021
MOJO MAGAZINE
London UK

COWBOY JUNKIES
Interviews by Dave Bowler

"It was an out-of-body experience."

With roots in post-punk and improv, this band of Toronto siblings were refining a hushed blues aesthetic on the independent margins. The, on Friday, November 27, 1987, they entered their hometown's Church Of The Holy Trinity to record their second album. Sustaining dream-moods of country, the Velvets and Elvis, its hushed, mantric devotionals reverberated into the wider worlds. "A lot of things came together on that record," they say. "We had a taste of being big."

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JUNE 29 2018
THE GUARDIAN
London UK
Joe Strummer demos and rarities to appear on new compilation
Laura Snapes

The 32-track album will include previously unheard recordings made by the late musician before and after his time with the Clash.

A new compilation of Joe Strummer's output beyond his recordings with the Clash will include 12 previously unreleased songs. The 32-track double album Joe Strummer 001 was overseen by Strummer's widow, Lucinda Tait, and Grammy winner Peter J Moore, and includes recordings by his bands the 101'ers and the Mescaleros in addition to solo material.

It was Moore who unearthed the hidden tracks in Strummer's archives, discovering that the songwriter and guitarist would often leave 20 minutes between songs on his cassettes and "superimpose" tracks on to eight-track recordings, which Moore disentangled.

Complete Guardian Article

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JUNE 29 2018
THE GUARDIAN
London UK
Joe Strummer demos and rarities to appear on new compilation
Laura Snapes

The 32-track album will include previously unheard recordings made by the late musician before and after his time with the Clash.

A new compilation of Joe Strummer's output beyond his recordings with the Clash will include 12 previously unreleased songs. The 32-track double album Joe Strummer 001 was overseen by Strummer's widow, Lucinda Tait, and Grammy winner Peter J Moore, and includes recordings by his bands the 101'ers and the Mescaleros in addition to solo material.

It was Moore who unearthed the hidden tracks in Strummer's archives, discovering that the songwriter and guitarist would often leave 20 minutes between songs on his cassettes and "superimpose" tracks on to eight-track recordings, which Moore disentangled.

Complete Guardian Article

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2016 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER:
Best Historical Album
Peter J. Moore, Mastering Engineer
(Bob Dylan and the Band)
Columbia Legacy

Years of sifting through dusty attic boxes and reels of fuzzy audio recordings has given two Canadian music archivists a shot at Grammy glory.

Producer Jan Haust and engineer Peter Moore are nominated in the best historical album category this year for bringing Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes to life.

It’s one of several projects on which the Toronto-based duo has worked, meticulously restoring tapes that were seemingly lost to time.

Toronto Star Article

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THE UNTOLD STORY of Bob Dylan's 'Basement Tapes': Inside the New Issue

Rolling Stone brings Garth Hudson back to Big Pink for the first time since 1968 for an exclusive documentary

Forty-six years after Rolling Stone first alerted the world to the existence of Bob Dylan's secret Basement Tapes sessions, the complete recordings are finally getting a commercial release - and we're commemorating the occasion with a cover story.

Rolling Stone contributing editor David Browne traces the entire history of the tapes in our new issue (on stands Friday), from the 1966 motorcycle crash that preceded their creation to the secret recording sessions in the Saugerties, New York home known as Big Pink to the many bootlegs and partial releases that have come out over the years to the massive undertaking it took to prepare all 130 tracks for release on The Basement Tapes Complete box set.