Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham are an improvising duo whose music is largely informed by a shared approach to the guitar; wide open chords, hazy tone and obtuse melody. Having played alongside each other in a quartet with Heather Roche and Dominic Lash and then most recently in Cooper’s group Modern Nature; their debut album, ‘Pond Life’ will be released on Mossy Tapes in January 2025. ‘Pond Life’ celebrates both the sonic potential of clean, un-effected guitar, as well as the naive, exploratory nature of responding to musical parameters in tandem. Notes, pitches and melody swirl around, breaching for air before diving below into the abyss. Bringing to mind the guitar improvisations of Taku Sugimoto; Pond Life’s ten tracks skate between the expansiveness of free improvisation and warm tonal meditations. Recorded at the Strongroom, London by Jim Wallis

Historically Fucked is a four way entanglement. It is trying to make short songs at-once but also to destroy them then too. It is about playing and laughing at playing, and it is about not doing either of those things sometimes. Sometimes it is to do with talking, howling or grunting, and sometimes it is to do with hitting and rubbing. It has to do with some of the four people who do it. Phoneme Signals From The Brigantes is a record of songs played in one place and time, surrounded by steam and people. The titles refer to syllabic utterances of both children and adults present. Mossy Tapes (and Historically Fucked) are proud to present this record. -- David BirchallAlex PierceOtto WillbergOdie Ji Ghast

Water Shrews is a mysterious and ever shifting organic music community based in Portland, Oregon. Mossy Tapes is proud to release their new album, ‘Red Eared Slider’ recorded by the founding duo Skyler Pia and Emmet Martin. A collection of 4 expansive improvisations, recorded in different spaces and each a reflection of their own environment, spiralling outward into perfectly quilted free form psychedelia from the misty heart of the PNW. -- Skyler Pia: Guitar, Pedal Steel, HarmoniumEmmet Martin: Reed Organ, Guitar, Tape Loops