When by Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper

It's approaching two years since Tara and Jack first played music together one frosty January evening in a Woolwich railway arch. It's not for us to liken it to the moment Paul McCartney met John Lennon at Woolton Village Fete, but the similarities are clear. Whether Tara and Jack will have the same kind of cultural impact is difficult to say. Perhaps?

If you've been fortunate enough to see Tara and Jack perform over the last year, you'll know they're onto something unique and something that's completely their own. Early shows of spiralling, hushed free improvisation slowly started to morph into performances that glided on a line between tonality and atonality, ambience and melody.

'When' is a collection of pieces recorded earlier this year that represents a snapshot along the road to where they're at now. Jack and Tara aren't afraid to play beautiful music, to repeat melody or harmony that resonates with them and to let notes bask in silence. It takes the approach of non-idiomatic music and ends up somewhere closer to blown out free songs or abstract memories of music.
Tara and Jack are on tour in North America this winter with their group Modern Nature... they will be carrying copies of the cassette
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