TAMING POWER — Six Pieces

"Still being a man on his own, somewhere in Norway, away from the usual noise crowd is Askild Haugland. Since some years he works as Taming Power, and has released a whole bunch of vinyl, of which 10" is his favorite. His tools include anything but a computer. Strictly using cassette recorders and reel to reel tapes, he crafts with the use of singing bowls, voice, metallophone, dingsha and harmonica, a kind of drone music. Before his music sounded some crude, perhaps due to his more lo-fi techniques, but on this new record I must say the music sounds much better. There is a clear diversification of sounds within each piece, a finer tuned mix of the music, but it's still clearly drone music. Much along the lines of the old Maeror Tri, with a slight touch of mystickal influences (but luckily well covered), this is perhaps the finest moment of Taming Power I have encountered. Only 110 copies were made, so act fast to grab this beauty." [FdW / Vital Weekly]