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“Almost, Not Exactly” Out 1 August 2025 via Nonclassical
Pre-order limited cassette: nonclassical.bandcamp.com/album/almost-not-exactly

“I wanted to build a rhythm section out of what I could find around me – sea shells, driftwood, rocks. It became its own strange, percussive language.”
— Tara Cunningham

A guitar pushed past the edge of itself. Beats made from beach detritus. Songs that shimmer like memory, flicker like light off the sea.

Almost - Not Exactly is the new EP from UK experimental guitarist and composer Tara Cunningham, and marks her first foray into beat-led terrain – a direction sparked by a solo residency on a remote beach in Northern France. There, away from cities and signal, she began gathering natural debris — shells, wood, rocks — transforming these into raw percussion, while twisting her guitar into entirely unfamiliar shapes.

Everything on the EP starts from a simple premise: what if rhythm could come from anything? What if melody wasn’t recognisable? Using pedals, edits and pure instinct, Tara builds a world that’s tactile and woozy, like walking through a dream with no fixed tempo.

“I’ve always been drawn to rhythm – in other people’s music – but never properly leaned into it in my own solo work. This felt like a moment to try.”

Alongside the music comes a series of haunting, beautiful short dance films by visual artist Jemima Seymour, capturing the physicality and fragility of the music in motion. The project also features reworks by some of Tara’s close creative community: Liam Noble, Morgan Noise, and Christos Stylianides each offer wildly different perspectives on the source material — from ambient deconstructions to broken-club mutations.

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