Posts Tagged ‘Å’
Å–Xpress Magazine Review
“a beautiful, soothing and utterly unique sound.”
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Audio files from various radio reviews.
Read MoreÅ–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. He became director of intramural athletics at Macalester College where I used to go for a run every now and then. In 1990 or ’91 he gave me a tape of Hardingfele music saying, “Listen to this.” He got it from his wife who was director of the Hardingfele Society of America.
Read MoreÅ–Downbeat, August 1999
“Å (just say “ah”) successfully joins the hardingfele, a.k.a. hardanger fiddle, with Tibbetts’ distinctive, often beautiful constructions.”
Read MoreÅ–Amazon.com
“Å brims with haunting moods and textures that splinter like the spider-web cracks of an ice-covered lake”
Read MoreÅ–Billboard Magazine, 1999
“Å” conjures up an enveloping and imagistic soundscape.
Read MoreÅ–Musician Magazine
“The result is pan-cultural sonic magic that transcends the limitations of language.”
Read MoreÅ–Minneapolis Star-Tribune & Playboy
“repeating fiddle phrases evolve into fresh ideas, while Tibbetts’ guitar slithers off on sympathetic tangents, and gongs and other elements chip in their own wry commentary, creating an ebb and flow of stylish nuance like mist on the fjords”
Read MoreÅ–Jazz times
“…music is the only genuine universal language… That idea springs to mind while listening to the latest project from the category-defying tone poet guitarist Steve Tibbetts, who has teamed up with Norwegian hardanger fiddler Knut Hamre for an intriguing and impressionistic set”
Read MoreÅ–National Post (Canada)
“…this new collaboration between jazz guitarist Steve Tibbetts and world music is dazzling”
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