There is a second band (perhaps the only one?) with the name T.A.P (with no meaning to the acronym). According the band itself, "T.A.P is a studio-based musical collaboration with the aim of producing an instrumental fusion of ambient sounds with elements sourced from genres including, but not limited to, progressive rock, blues, jazz, psychedelic, and ethnic influences.
The beginnings of T.A.P go back to 2012 when Michael Jobborn assisted Gayle Ellett with some promotion for his Djam Karet band. This brought Michael into contact with Mark Cook when Gayle asked Michael to help Mark Cook with promoting his Herd of Instinct band. This lead to Michael asking if Mark would work with him on his own music, which started the ball rolling towards the music now being released.
Around the latter half of 2019, through an online radio station chat-room meeting with Suzi James, Michael helped promote the band Fearful Symmetry's debut album, which Suzi co-founded. Suzi was the next musician recruited into the fold.
Then 'the Covid years' happened...
In 2022 it all sparked back into life, and Gayle Ellett was called upon to input his particular skills, and later, drummers Paul Sears and Bill Bachman added some finishing touches to a couple of tracks.
The collective name for the project is T.A.P - but no-one will give a straight answer to what it means - it's whatever you want it to be. Maybe it's because all the contributors 'tap' something - drums, keyboards (musical and computer), and the frets of various stringed instruments.
The title of the first album, 'Paradigms', might provide a clue...


Here is the second band T.A.P. (Tales About People) is from Tampere (Finland) and have been together as a band since 2006. Ano (25 years), our drummer, is the oldest guy in the band, and the other band members are all 21 years old. Ano and Aapo were the last members to join T.A.P. in 2006, although we’ve all been childhood friends.

We’ve been playing together for four years and have succeeded to win the DemoFinals in the national radio channel called Ylex. Furthermore, the best result in the hit list has been fourth place. At Meteli.net (www.meteli.net) we’ve been number one in both single and artist hitlists for two weeks.

Our music style settles in rock with huge sounds and great melodies with English lyrics. Our single ”Careless” was released in January and includes two songs (Careless and Mirror), which was recorded and mixed by Jari Latomaa at Deerhouse Studios at the end of last year.

We have played dozens of gigs. All past gigs can be seen at www.mikseri.net/tap. Not the very oldest, though. We've been in a tour outside of Finland. For TREvolution 2008 we played 7 gigs in Germany, Czech Republic and France together with two other bands from Tampere.

Stay tuned to check out what we’re up to and what tales we will tell, because T.A.P. is here to stay!! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.