Press Pages Archives · Steve Tibbetts

ECM press page for Close

Music is as close to magic as we mortals have. Musicians do revel in being thought of as wizards or shamans or conduits or vessels or prophets.

Hellbound Train: Logorrhea

Photos, Dogs, Teaching, and Travel—My ECM

HellboundQuestions

A Dozen Hellbound Questions from The ECM office.

Things I Did (Press resources for “Life Of.”)

Things I did while I made this album. A list.

Life Of–Bio & Press Page

I like the physicality of playing 12-string. I don’t use a pick. If I’m drifting off to sleep at night and feel my fingertips throbbing I know I had a good day.

Life Of–More Biographical Material

Some Biographical Material, including the all-important Big Influences.

MyECM

I curated a playlist for ECM as part of their venture into the world of streaming and tell how I became enamored with the label.

Natural Causes–ECM Bio

The making of “Natural Causes” took place in a period when Tibbetts was reconsidering some fundamental aspects of his art and craft – in parallel with daily studies of Bach, Bartók, and music theory.

A Man About A Horse–ECM bio pt. 1

There’s a plot, intention and meaning. Do I want anybody to know the specifics of plot, intention, and meaning? Definitely not.

A Man About A Horse–ECM bio pt. 2

When someone opened up a guitar case and pulled out a guitar they may as well have been pulling a sword out of a stone.

1997, with Knut, Turid, Steve Tibbetts and Marc Anderson, near Granvin, Norway

Å–Rykodisc / Hannibal Bio

In 1976 I had a job in a record store in St. Paul. One of my co-workers was a guy named Morrey Nellis. In 1990 or ’91 he gave me a tape of Hardingfele music saying, “Listen to this.”

The Fall of Us All–ECM Bio

“Most reviews of Steve Tibbetts’s music describe it in the context of what it’s not; what it is, plain and simple, is Tibbettsian.”

Chö by Chöying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts

Chö–Rykodisc Press Release

“If the pairing of a guitarist from Wisconsin and a Tibetan expatriate nun seems rather extraordinary, Tibbetts’ narrative makes the encounter seem very predictable, even predestined.”

First Album–Cuneiform Press

By late summer of 1976 I had enough music for an album but little chance of getting a label to put it out.