Kimathi Moore was born in Paris, France in 1966 amidst a very rich multicultural backdrop. Both parents were very involved in the cultural, literature and artistic boom that were taking place in Paris. During those days Kimathi traveled a lot with his parents and lived for many years in Nigeria, Senegal (West Africa), Paris and the French Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe). In this environment Kimathi developed a profound love for the arts as a whole and was primarily drawn to sound synthesis. As a child, Kima always felt this acute sensitivity for textures, colors and sounds and as that feeling grew and matured, this would lead him to become a sound artist, electronic composer, percussionist and a videographer.

Recorded sounds, which are usually field recordings and resampled synth sounds, are meticulously shaped and molded to convey certain base impressions within the listener, which could border on synesthesia. In that sense Kima considers his music to be more like a sound “narrative painting” which is a temporary way of calling it. The philosophy being that there ought be no limits to sound and where it can go within the imaginative realm.

A major influence on Kimathi’s compositions are the works of painters like Jacek Yerka, Remedios Varo, Kandinsky, the Impressionists and post Impressionists, Hieronymus Bosch and composers like Debussy, Ravel, Schumann, Tailleferre, Ralph Towner, Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Nana Vasconcelos, just to name a few.