Tara Tainton

Pianist Tara Kamangar's "East of Melancholy" is a luxuriously lovely recital of virtuoso piano music spanning musical traditions from Russia to Iran, executed with spectacular aplomb. She has curated it with a acute and subtle awareness of the connections between musical traditions.

After the runaway success of their first album together, released by Odradek World and acclaimed by both the public and the international press (five stars in BBC Magazine, four stars in Songlines Magazine), Koum Tara and La Camerata present Baraaim El-louz – ‘The buds of the almond tree’.

Transformation is what happens in the hinge between before and after.

JAKOB’S WIFE is a vampire film in the true spirit of the vampire mythos, particularly Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The filmmakers definitely did their research and there are references scattered in the film to other classic films that have come before it. I Speak Machine are vocalist and synth-nerd Tara Busch and filmmaker Maf Lewis. Together, they make brooding soundtracks and horror/sci-fi films, creating audio and visual in unison to give both elements equal prominence. The result is a “live score film”, where all screenings of the film are accompanied by Tara perfoming the score live.