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Tape Milieu Plus Milieu Plus is a reissue of Tape's 2003 second full-length, Milieu (HAPNA 014CD), with four new tracks taken from the original 2003 sessions. When this album first came out, it sounded like nothing else. Seemingly improvised but still so tenderly composed, it took cues from both the most gentle free jazz and Brian Eno's ideas of ambient music, but at the same time leaning against both Swedish folk music and broken pop balladry. Milieu - together with its forerunner Opera - became something of a stepping stone for, if not a new kind of pop, at least a new way of approaching it and a new way of seeing what it could achieve. Tape had very little to do with traditional experimental music, they never fitted into jazz and - although many tried to - their beautiful songs could not by any means be labelled electronica. Instead it was the genuine gentleness itself of Tape's music that spoke to their soul mates across the world. Milieu opened a door to a musical heart their contemporaries had been trying to reach for a long time. As Andres Lokko describes of this release, "Tape stir up such forgotten feelings, they restore fading pictures we don't really want to share with anyone else. Or in some cases have forgotten they were ever there in the first place. The aching slowness of these melodies awaken reluctant nostalgia; a forced sentimentality. And they do so without the aid of words, only with the purest music; the electricity in the air that surrounds the captured moment." Now in a digipak with new cover art. Format: CD Album   Label: Hapna Sweden Catalog: HAPN41.2 Origin: Sweden Listed: 2008-04-15 Activity Status: Usually Available in 1 - 3 days   Price: $14.63   More titles from Tape : Luminarium Milieu Milieu Plus Mort Aux Vaches Opera Plus Paintings Rideau specials Jaga What We Must (ltd) Price: $10.99 More Info    Sunn0 & Boris Altar Price: $10.32 More Info

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