Tape

Tue., Feb. 9, 8 p.m., $12, all ages, with Mountains, First Unitarian Church Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

instrumental/ambient

This Swedish trio is on a Stateside tour culminating with an appearance at New York's Unsound Festival of electronic music, but there's little that's palpably electronic about their music. Links to jazz and folk, while spiritually apt, are equally tenuous, and, far from feeling "experimental," their loose, understated compositions are calmly, positively assured. Plying a primary palette of acoustic guitars, organs and flutes with subtle sonic manipulations, and finding equal time for lucid drones and sweetly ambling tunes, Tape are ever placid but never boring, the most melodious of pastoral ambient foragers.