Rural Tapes has today released his fourth album Oneiric via Clay Pipe Music to great acclaim. Oneiric is available now on vinyl LP, CD, and digital/streaming here.
Oneiric is an expansive and enthralling record from the Rural Tapes moniker of Norwegian producer and multi-instrumentalist Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen. It is a record for the dreamers, a trippy cosmic aural experience of largely instrumental music, recorded analogue and crafted together at his Nygrenda Vev & Dur studio in rural Norway.
On Oneiric Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen play organs, synthesizers, piano, mellotron, drums, drum machines, percussion, field recordings, trombone, tuba, electric guitars, vocals, vocoder and tape treatment. He is joined in parts by collaborators including Alexis Taylor, Gary Olson, Kristine Tjøgersen, Lars Løberg Tofte, Marin Stallemo Bakke, Sigurd Thomassen, Silje Høgevold, Terry Edwards and Øystein Braut.
In a career which spans two decades, Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen has cemented himself as a vital name from the Norwegian music scene. He has been a part of important Norwegian bands such as I Was A King and Heroes & Zeros, as well as the bi-continental jangle band The No Ones with Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey from R.E.M. and Minus 5 along with I Was A King frontman Frode Strømstad.
Launching his Rural Tapes project with the self-titled record in 2021, he solidified his status further for his inventive and progressive music. Rural Tapes is consistently met by a wealth of high praise as seen across the further studio albums including Inner Space Music (2022) and Contact (2024). He now heightens senses further with Oneiric, an album set to prove a vital record in his catalogue.
Celebrating the new album release Rural Tapes will be touring throughout Norway and Germany. The tour seven-date tour will include a special show where Oneiric, and the rest of the Rural Tapes catalogue, has been created at Nygrenda Vev & Dur on November 20th. Full Rural Tapes tour dates are listed below.
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