Pop Mutations presents:
Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham
+ Special Guests
Sunday 13th July
The Doublet
18+

As colleagues in the UK group Modern Nature, Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper play measured music that never feels constrained. The same can be said of their first duo album together, Pond Life, which is even more minimal than the work of their other project. Across ten tracks named for various aspects of the album’s title (e.g. “Fern,” “Koi,” “Great Crested Newt”), the pair gradually pluck their strings, leaving lots of space in between each sonic motion. Everything always seems to be fading out of view; the mesmerizing pace evokes Loren Connors’ sparse abstractions. But the mood Cunningham and Cooper create, one of reverence and exploration, is all their own.

For fans of Bill Orcutt, Bitchin’ Bajas , Taku Sugimoto and Jim O’Rourke