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‘Casino’ - the new album from alternative music veterans Tape marks their 14th year of activity. It was recorded at the legendary Atlantis studio in Stockholm by engineer Janne Hansson in December 2013. The music of Tape still continues it´s growth, in it´s own way, separated from the rest of the world in many ways. This time the emotional depth are even stonger and clearer as well as their focus and interest in details. \rSwedish trio Tape was set up in 2000 by brothers Andreas and Johan Berthling with Tomas Hallonsten. Taking cues both from pop, experimentalism, and minimalism their sound with a mixture of acoustic and electronic instrumentation has become recognized internationally and is clearly something of its own. \rTheir first album Opera was released on the Häpna imprint (which Johan is a co-owner of) in 2002. Working intuitive, all by themselves, they created mini symphonies out of electronic sounds paired with a stunning melodic lyricism. With an array of electronic and acoustic instruments at hand they recorded at a small stone barn on the island of Öland, east of Sweden. 2003 saw the release of Milieu, recorded at the very same barn. These recordings had a more arranged feeling and a clear pop sensibility in some parts. \rIn 2005 they went to Cologne to have Marcus Schmickler produce and record their third album Rideau. This was done in his Piethopraxis studio in Cologne and his involvement left traces; an almost architectonical approach was taken and some of the intimacy that characterized the first two albums were replaced by a somewhat harder edge. \rIn 2006 they collaborated with Japanese duo Tenniscoats on their album Tan–Tan Therapy. The same year they recorded in Tokyo with Japanese quartet Minamo, which resulted in the record Birds of a feather. In the years, their touring has taken them to places like Japan, China, Taiwan, USA and most parts of Europe. Since Luminarium (2008) they are working out of their own Summa studio in Stockholm and there they also recorded what became Revelationes, their 5th album. \rAfter a hiatus for two years the group did a tour of Europe in nov 2013, where they tried out new material which later was recorded in Stockholm at the Atlantis studio and is now released as the album Casino. It´s their 6th full length album if you omit all the different collaborations and other stuff they’ve done over the years. \rJohan Berthling is also the bass player for the trio Fire! with Mats Gustafsson & Andreas Werliin and is involved with many other projects ranging from free jazz to rock. His collaborators include Mats Gustafsson, Oren Ambarchi, Akira Sakata & Paal Nilssen-Love. \rTomas Hallonsten is a keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist running the trio Time is a Mountain including Berthling on bass and drummer Andreas Werliin. \rAndreas Berthling is a musician using modular synthesis and laptop as his instruments. He´s released a string of recordings under his own name.
