Andy Mort | Music

Andy Mort is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from the UK. His solo music career started in 2005 with the release of his debut album, The Final Scene, under the pseudonym, Atlum Schema. His second release was the eponymous 2009 album. The track Ballad of the Self-Blessed, Self-Less caught the attention of Tom Robinson, leading to multiple radio plays, an interview on BBC 6Music, and a memorable live show curated by Tom at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London.

Andy released two more Atlum Schema studio albums, One World Less (2011) and Year 0 (2014), as well as the Arrow of Time EP (2017), refining his unique soundscapes and distinctive melodies. Known for his textured live looping, Andy has shared stages with The Enemy, Duke Special, Two Door Cinema Club, Inspiral Carpets, Son of Dave, Nathan Johnson, Lanterns On The Lake, and David Knopfler, among others, and has performed at two TEDx events (Nicosia 2014 and Leamington Spa 2017).

In 2019, he started a new project with Ben Munday and Jon Mort (Andy’s brother), moulding six songs he wrote at the end of 2018 during a season of heartbreak. Earlybird expanded from a weekly electro-jam around the kitchen table into an analogue synth-pop band with nods to influences such as Depeche Mode, Brian Eno, and Public Service Broadcasting. The band produced two singles (Late Again and Miss a Beat) with John Rivers at Woodbine St Studio in Leamington Spa. They played several shows at the start of 2020 (Temperance, The Tin Arts, and O2 Academy 3 in Birmingham) before the pandemic halted momentum in March of that year.

Towards the end of 2021, Andy unexpectedly wrote thirteen songs in six days. This birthed a new project, Home is No(w)here, which is a collection of tracks infused by the spirit of his semi-nomadic existence. Sleep It Off was the first single, followed by Tin Soldier and Raise a Glass. He continues to work with Ben Munday and producer Matt Cotterill at 300 Acre Studios.

The project was briefly interrupted at the end of 2023 by the release of Still Time, a single inspired by an art exhibition at LTB Showrooms in Coventry. The song incorporated found sounds from the building, capturing its essence before its imminent demolition.

Andy is currently in the studio developing ambient soundscapes and continuing work on Home is No(w)here.