RM Hendrix & Nico Guerrero | Mengi Reykjavik | Oct.11 2025
The new experimental duet Nico Guerrero (prepared lapsteel guitar) and R Michael Hendrix (mysterious tapes machines) will play for the first time at Mengi, opening for a special performance with Pan Thoraresen, Þorkell Atlason and Borgar Magnuson 💥
Mengi / Saturday, October 11th
– Pan Thorarensen & Þorkell Atlason
– RM Hendrix & Nico Guerrero
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2500kr / 2000kr students
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Pan Thorarensen & Þorkell Atlason
Pan Thorarensen is a musician, producer and event/festival organizer from Reykjavík, Iceland. Pan has composed music for short films and documentaries and released numerous albums under various stage names, one of them is the experimental-ambient-trio “Stereo Hypnosis,” in which he collaborates with his father, Óskar Thorarensen, and the composer Þorkell Atlason. Stereo Hypnosis have also released collaborative albums with various artists, such as Christopher Chaplin, Eraldo Bernocchi and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Pan has travelled and exhibited his art across the world, performing at multiple music festivals, during these travels, he has bonded with countless musicians, visual artists, agents, reporters and event planners. Pan’s has long been a catalyst of electronic music in Iceland. 16 years ago, he founded and organised “Extreme Chill,” an annual electronic music festival which has drawn both local and foreign electronic music enthusiasts into the amber embrace of Icelandic nature. Extreme Chill and the festival’s numerous sub-events have begotten multiple releases, concerts, friendships and collaborations between Icelandic and foreign musicians.
Pan is now partakes in the newly established “Up Node Network” is a progressive network of collaborating Nordic festivals for experimental music and sonic arts. It consists of six festivals in Northern Europe and aims to develop and strengthen new emerging artistic expressions within the Nordic countries through exchange of knowledge between the partners. The Up Node community is devoted to building and maintaining a sustainable infrastructure to establish, create and promote international awareness of electronic music environments in the Nordic countries and help increase mobility for Nordic artists.
Thorkell Atlason Is an Icelandic composer and guitarist. He graduated from Rotterdam Codearts in composition and electronic music. His works have been performed widely abroad as in Iceland. He is a member of various music groups; experimental composers group S.L.Á.T.U.R, electronic bands Stereo Hypnosis and Tunglleysa as well contributing to various other projects
R.M Hendrix & Nico Guerrero
R.M. Hendrix is a U.S.-born experimental-pop artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer now based in Reykjavík. His creative work is deeply shaped by environment, transience, and emotional tension. With Blindur (2023), Hendrix crafted a sonic diary — choosing eight instrumental tracks from among 30, infusing field-inspired textures, ambient electronics, and subtle noise, resulting in immersive soundscapes that evoke nature and introspection. YUKS (2025) marks a leap: where Blindur was largely instrumental and atmospheric, YUKS layers lyrical content, complex moods, and genre-blurring mixes of trip-hop, dream pop, ambient noise, with political and social themes. Critics highlight its tension between chaos and melody, its capacity to unsettle and soothe, and its ambition to reflect both outer and inner landscapes with nuance.
Nico Guerrero is a French composer-guitarist living between Paris and Reykjavik. He’s first known for his dark shoegaze project Vortex in the early 90′, which already laid the foundations for the cosmic and noisy universe he would explore later. His guitar processing through numerous electronic filters creates a very dense space, rich in overtones, becoming a wall of echoing organ clusters, sometimes cold and incantatory, sometimes more epic and shaping dreamscapes, or darker and threatening.He has performed and worked with numerous musicians, including composer Rhys Chatham with whom he recently collaborated on their duet “Athanor,” to be released this fall on the US Erototox Decodings label.