![]() | Evoking divergent and fêted names like Gastr del Sol, Talk Talk, John Fahey, Faust and Fennesz, dreamy Swedish trio Tape smudge the margins between bucolic and electric; between devised and improvised; between day and night. The triumvirate – Stockholm’s Andreas Berthling, Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten – infuse technological and rural doctrines to striking effect. Armed with an amorous, nigh-infinite arsenal of field recordings, concrete sounds, banjos, vibraphones, synths, Chinese flutes – and countless other aural accoutrements – the three-piece mine a fertile seam indeed. Tape’s second and most recent album, Milieu (Hapna), forages and forges this organic and electronic integration – it’s an experimental, gentle treatise whose impressive, impressionistic, gauzy melodies are at once human and mechanical; measured and spontaneous; dark and light. |