Biography
Bing & Ruth, the Brooklyn-rooted ensemble headed by pianist and composer David Moore, crafts post-minimalist works marked by a cinematic sensibility. Group size fluctuates with the demands of each Moore composition, although a stable chamber-sized core always forms the foundation. Drawing from Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich, the music unfolds at a deliberate pace, moving between remote crystalline textures and sweeping luminous peaks. The instrumental resources span strings, winds, and voice to lap steel, drums, and tape manipulations. Their 2014 full-length Tomorrow Was the Golden Age served as the decisive breakthrough, attracting broad critical notice while reaching listeners across ambient, post-rock, and neo-classical spheres.
Moore launched Bing & Ruth in 2006 alongside fellow students at New York City’s New School. Two CD-Rs appeared in 2006 and 2007, followed in 2010 by the first proper album, the warm and deeply textured City Lake. Moore subsequently concentrated on separate folk- and Americana-oriented efforts such as the Piledrivers and Pepper Johnson before reassembling Bing & Ruth in 2014 as a reduced seven-piece group. Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, their second LP, surfaced later that year. RVNG Intl. reissued City Lake in November 2015, adding three bonus tracks drawn from the original sessions.
Late in 2016 the ensemble signed to 4AD and revealed the forthcoming No Home of the Mind. The album was realized by the quintet of Moore, Jeremy Viner on clarinet, Mike Effenberger on tape delay, Jeff Ratner on bass, and Greg Chudzik on bass, and reached the public in February 2017. Bing & Ruth resurfaced in 2020 with Species, a collection of pieces that probe the capacities of the Farfisa organ together with clarinet and double bass.
Moore launched Bing & Ruth in 2006 alongside fellow students at New York City’s New School. Two CD-Rs appeared in 2006 and 2007, followed in 2010 by the first proper album, the warm and deeply textured City Lake. Moore subsequently concentrated on separate folk- and Americana-oriented efforts such as the Piledrivers and Pepper Johnson before reassembling Bing & Ruth in 2014 as a reduced seven-piece group. Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, their second LP, surfaced later that year. RVNG Intl. reissued City Lake in November 2015, adding three bonus tracks drawn from the original sessions.
Late in 2016 the ensemble signed to 4AD and revealed the forthcoming No Home of the Mind. The album was realized by the quintet of Moore, Jeremy Viner on clarinet, Mike Effenberger on tape delay, Jeff Ratner on bass, and Greg Chudzik on bass, and reached the public in February 2017. Bing & Ruth resurfaced in 2020 with Species, a collection of pieces that probe the capacities of the Farfisa organ together with clarinet and double bass.
Albums
Divergence: Species Remixes
2020
Species
2020
Dorsal
2017
No Home of the Mind
2017
Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
2014
Singles
