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Taming Power - For Electric Guitars And Tape Recorders

Taming Power - For Electric Guitars And Tape Recorders

Musician: Taming Power
Album title: For Electric Guitars And Tape Recorders
Style: Avantgarde, Experimental
Released: 2001
Country: Norway
Size MP3 version: 1944 mb
Size APE version: 1809 mb
Size WMA version: 1256 mb
Rating ✫: 4.3
Votes: 948
Format: WMA WAV ASF MIDI WMA MMF MP1
Genre: Rock

Taming Power - For Electric Guitars And Tape Recorders


Tracklist

A 22-4-00, 23-4-00/12-5-00
B 22-4-00, 23-4-00/10-5-00

Credits

  • Composed By, Written By – Askild Haugland

Notes

Limited edition: 200

Link:

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Side 'A' sees TAMING POWER's spider web guitar being pulled, slowed down, sped-up & generally re-invented by Tape Manipulation. The atmosphere this creates is a heavily-drugged, soporific journey through the imagination of the listener themselves. This is the kinda thing you'd be pleased to hear on cassette releases by TG wannabies 'round about the end of the 70s. Indeed it brings early CABS / KIRK Tape-Work to mind - DADA dream imagery wandering through strange delay - resounding corridors of lazy sunny afternoon daydreaming. It's a pleasant, enjoyable journey, ending up on the shores of a sunkissed beach (Avant Garde Hawaii Sunset) wondering where the hell you've been all this time. Side 'B' takes you on a similar journey to the previous piece, where spiralling strands of guitar string tug the listener through Digital Delayed muddy clouds of languid noise, warped and occasionally stuttering as it shambles over holes and faults. Much more Surreal than the first side, the sound stumbles & trips, only to be re-set on course by some clumsy Deus Ex Machina Tape Manipulation (which at first grates, then becomes accepted - even welcomed!). It concludes warping clumps of grey-bruised storm-clouds, scudding angrily, leading us towards silence. This EP would definitely sound good on CD, when you could loop the soporific lunacy of the first side, or listen through, journeying from limp imagery to the heavy density of the 'B' side's conclusion. Another triumph for TAMING POWER. Originally reviewed for Metamorphic Journeyman.