jeremy keens
Taming Power is one of the maverick artists who have followed their own path. Tapes and vinyl have been his main output, and while this is a tape work at heart, having access to a digital version will hopefully give more of the world an insight into his unique vision.
1. 25-6-17 IV
2. 25-6-17 V
3. 17-4-17 III
4. 26-8-99/4-7-00 VI
5. 2000/21-2-02
6. 2000/9-3-02 VII
7. 29-12-94/13-8-98
8. 29-12-94/15-8-98
9. 15-8-98 I
10. 15-8-98 II
11. 29-12-01 I-II
12. 29-12-01 III
13. 29-12-01 IV
14. 28-5-07 I
credits
released December 18, 2017
Composed & performed by Askild Haugland.
Cover painting - 1993.
Many thanks to Paul Condon and Fort Evil Fruit for taking care of this release.
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Askild Haugland has been releasing instrumental music as Taming Power on his own Early Morning Records for the last twenty years, including recordings that date back a decade further. His discography includes six LPs, ten 10" EPs, a couple of 7"s and an array of micro-edition cassettes. 2016 saw the appearance of a double cassette on Jon Collin's Winebox Press, the first release on another label, which we're delighted to follow up here.
Working in isolation, Taming Power's music reveals little in the way of discernible influences, whether he's playing electric guitar or no-input tape machine feedback. No matter the instruments, the music feels detached from the human world, instead evoking vast natural landscapes or the microcosmos of electrical circuits.
Selections for Fort Evil Fruit is comprised of mostly unreleased tracks, and some culled from privately distributed cassette releases. The recordings date as far back as 1998, with a trio of 2017 guitar pieces opening the album. Elsewhere Haugland uses organ, tape machine noise, and musique concrete, the longest tracks being in-depth explorations of guitar harmonics.
Taming Power is a real rarity in this day and age - an underground project that has maintained a singular vision over a lengthy career with a minimum of online presence and media attention.
supported by 15 fans who also own “Selections for Fort Evil Fruit”
“With Julius, he was based in repetition, but here was a spirit of openness and improvisation. His scores, if they were written out that way, were often like jazz scores. He loved multiplying instruments – four pianos, ten cellos – so there was a real feeling of the presence of the instrument, not just using an instrument in some kind of equation, as a means to an end.” ~ Mary Jane Leach
Enough said. pt
supported by 14 fans who also own “Selections for Fort Evil Fruit”
incredible album one of the most exciting tapes ive heard in years a gutter poetic industrial band reminds me of the wolf eyes album releases ,but i much prefer this, gets me pounding my fist in the air and smiling and shouting , mix those feelings with the intricate tape loops and guitar that have a heavens touch , soz rambling, but yes in love with it xxx Robert Shackleton
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