LIVE: Rural Tapes(NO) + Hendrik Kaljujärv
Celebrating the new tape release «Alien Territories Vol. 2», Rural Tapes will be touring solo throughout Europe in October and November, bringing tape machines, dictaphones and synths to perform partly improvised sets of gritty, ambient music.
In a career which spans two decades, Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen has cemented himself as a vital name from the Norwegian music scene. As a producer and performing musician, he’s been involved in more than 80 releases, besides composing music for butoh, theatre, dance performances etc.
Launching his Rural Tapes project with the self-titled record in 2021, he solidified his passion for inventive and adventurous music. Rural Tapes is consistently met by a wealth of high praise as seen across the further studio albums including Inner Space Music (2022), Contact (2024) and «Oneiric» (2025). In his latest cassette tape series «Alien Territories», he explores new sonic ground and shares textural and almost tactile sounding tape works, nodding towards the experimental works of Terry Riley, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.»
https://ruraltapes.bandcamp.com/
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Hendrik Kaljujärv (EE)
Hendrik is creatively active across a wide range of formats and roles. He has composed music for theatre, performing arts, films, and exhibitions, as well as directed and performed in both stage productions and performance art. A defining feature of Hendrik's work is an intense, profound pursuit of evocative states of being, paired with meticulous craftsmanship across various media and tools. Beyond his technical precision, he has an intuitive grasp of how different formats function, while remaining steadfast in his aesthetic and conceptual principles.