Partners in music and life, Mirana and Rick Comstock's latest band, Theory of Tides, is named after scientific theories that date back to Newton and Galileo. A unique fusion of alt rock textures set against cross currents of electronica, hip hop, Latin and trance beats.

Mirana and Rick each brought a special background to the mix when they hooked up in a NY/NJ cover band in the 80s. Mirana came from a long line of acclaimed artists, performers and writers. Trained in the "family business" at Juilliard, the American School of Ballet, Music and Art and Lee Strasberg, Mirana credits her innate storytelling ability to grandfather Konrad Bercovici, a noted Gypsy short story writer and original author of Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." Rick's upbringing was slightly less exotic - growing up in the ‘burbs, he traveled into NYC to catch concerts and club dates, started studying rock and jazz guitar in his early teens and spent summers jamming with local musicians at Asbury Park's famed Stone Pony.

 

The two ultimately left their first band for downtown Manhattan, where Rick designed and the couple launched music studio SoundSpace. Playing host to an exciting indie scene of rock and wave bands including Chris Stein and Brian Setzer inspired the creation of their first original band, Sighs Five.

Subsequently moving to the Boston area's South Shore, Rick built a digital studio in their beachside home. He continued to play and record while Mirana began to "tell her stories," as she puts it, in different mediums, winning multiple international festivals as a screenwriter and photographer. But the pull of music was strong and what started a year ago with a few musical ideas, an occasional jam, quickly returned to the intense collaboration that had brought them together in the first place.