Posts Tagged ‘Hannibal’
Å–Billboard Magazine, 1999
“Å” conjures up an enveloping and imagistic soundscape.
Read MoreÅ–Amazon.com
“Å brims with haunting moods and textures that splinter like the spider-web cracks of an ice-covered lake”
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Recorded in New York City at the Knitting Factory, August 1999 · Chöying Drolma, Lodro, Sherab: voice and percussion; Steve Tibbetts: guitar and samples; Marc Anderson: percussion and samples
Read MoreÅ–Downbeat, August 1999
“Å (just say “ah”) successfully joins the hardingfele, a.k.a. hardanger fiddle, with Tibbetts’ distinctive, often beautiful constructions.”
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Knut Hamre and Steve Tibbetts. “Once again, Tibbetts has shown that the exposure of geographically isolated traditions doesn’t have to be exploitative or blandly commercial.” -Isthmus
Read MoreChö–Isthmus Review, 11/20/98
“There was no encore, and, frankly, none was needed. The window onto bliss that Tibbetts, Anderson and the nuns offered was treat enough.”
Read MoreChö–Philadelphia Inquirer
“Tibbetts is a man enthralled by the sound of a single strummed chord vibrating in space, his love of the sheer physicality of music makes a perfect marriage with the disembodied songs of Tibetan nun Choying Drolma on Chö”
Read MoreChö–Minneapolis Star-Tribune 1998
“The lead singer sits at a low table on the garage-studio floor. Wrapped in a purple robe, she sings with her nearly shaved head bowed slightly, eyes closed, hands folded in her lap. Her face shows nothing but calm. Her lips barely move, and at times it’s difficult to tell whether she is singing or it’s a recording that’s being played back.”
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