2LP of insular guitar and synth tapestries—sometimes delicate & minimal, sometimes scuzzy & maximal—recorded by Askild Haugland in his home in rural Norway in 2009.

RIYL: Loren Mazzacane Connors, Raffaele Serra, Jandek, The Dead C, Jim O’Rourke, AndreoLina

“Taming Power is an artist from Norway who has been quietly working in isolation and self-releasing music since as far back as 1998, with a substantial catalogue across all analogue formats yet seemingly little online presence or media attention. His music feels like a meditation on the present without any listener or audience in mind. There’s no flowery title tracks or double-entendre in the album names that offer us any clues to the work’s influence or objective, instead pieces are time-stamped, process-driven, resembling La Monte Young / The Theatre Of Eternal Music. A moment in time captured. But this feels removed from the lofty world of the established avant-garde, the works are sparse, consisting mainly of stripped-bare electric guitar mixed with the lo-fi stop / start clunk of the tape machine with the occasional organ or scant electronics giving a glimpse one person’s own private reality at that time.” — Tom Houghton

NM unplayed deadstock with a little waviness to the thin covers.