Friday 21 March 2025, 7.30pm
An electrifying long-form improvisation of music and words by live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi. Each From the Lips to the Moon performance is a unique experience with a fresh line-up of guest musicians and poets weaving together live electronics, unearthly melodies, noise, twisted beats, fierce poetry, heavy subs, and non-stories told in goosebumps and half-familiar languages.
From the Lips to the Moon creates an immersive space filled with fantasy, noise, experimentation, and thrown-togetherness. Since 2022, they have performed at the V&A, Southbank Centre, The Vinyl Factory, Reference Point, NTS, Soho Radio, Radio al-Hara, and internationally, and worked with over 95 guest artists. Their first book of poetry, music, runaway words, and echoes is called In times of darkness (2024) and they’re debut album is coming out in 2025. www.lipstomoon.com
POUYA EHSAEI is a live electronic musician, composer and sound designer working on the intersections of experimental electronic music, live improv and dub techno, characterised by influences from industrial music, breakbeat, jazz, noise, and Iranian folk and classical music. He is the band-leader of Cuban-Iranian ensemble Ariwo and co-founder of Parasang where he led long-from improvisations in a clubbing context. He has released two solo albums There (Entr’acte), RocRast (Zabte Sote) and two albums with Ariwo and performed at Montreux Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Barbican, Southbank Centre, Womad, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Womex, Fold and many more. www.pouyaehsaei.com
TARA FATEHI is a performer, actor, writer and multidisciplinary creative. She has sixteen different voices and performs apocalyptic facts, soul-crunching laughs, adult lullabies and theatrical treasures that forefront mistranslation, ambiguity, disjunction, playfulness and unfinishedness. She has performed at Nottdance, Southbank Centre, Nuffield Theatre, Montpelier Dance, Alkantara, and many more. Her 365 day artwork Mishandled Archive is published as a book by LADA (2020) and tours as performance and lectures. She was the first ever resident artist at the United nations’ Archive in Geneva. www.tarafatehi.com
