Posts Tagged ‘Loud’
Hellbound Train – Absolute Sound Review
Steve Tibbetts is less famous than some other guitarists in the ECM catalog, such as Ralph Towner, Terje Rypdal, Pat Metheny, and Bill Frisell. This 2-CD retrospective shows why he deserves equal attention. As obsessive in his sequencing as he is in layering his compositions, Tibbetts sampled the endings and beginnings of 28 pieces and programmed the songs into a non-chronological narrative flow.
Read MoreHellbound Train – MOJO Magazine
Tibbetts has been an ECM artist [since 1982], pursuing a movable crossroads of modal psychedelia, dreamscape electronics and ceremonial rhythms across the eight albums anthologised in this set. If you are new to Tibbetts, Hellbound Train is an exciting introduction – with an epic journey on the other side of the door.
Read MoreClose
“Close is like a dark Rothko painting on fire. The love of life, the losses. Honestly, this album breaks my heart.” — Flowworker.org
Read MoreHellbound Train: An Anthology
“Tibbetts has been an ECM artist [since 1982], pursuing a movable crossroads of modal psychedelia, dreamscape electronics and ceremonial rhythms across the eight albums anthologised in this set. If you are new to Tibbetts, Hellbound Train is an exciting introduction – with an epic journey on the other side of the door.” -David Fricke, MOJO
Read MoreCompilation
This three-CD compilation has over three hours of remastered music culled from 11 records and is meant as an introduction to Tibbett’s far-reaching imagination and to whet the appetite for his back catalog and future endeavors.
Read MoreLife Of–Downbeat
“It might be less than an hour long, but Life Of will provide years of deep and rewarding listening.”
Read MoreThe Fall of Us All–Atlantic Monthly
“Tibbetts’s guitar-from-beyond-the-solar-system will take you to realms hitherto glimpsed only by the Hubble space telescope and will offer several plausible explanations of dark matter.”
Read MoreA Man About A Horse–Downbeat Review
“A Man About A Horse embodies Tibbetts’ established strengths – feral electric guitar solos, complex percussion and meticulously detailed production.”
Read MoreA Man About a Horse
“Tibbetts also loves to rock: He recorded much of the searing guitar on “A Man About A Horse” in a single night, over frenetic Balinese drum samples colored and doubled by percussionists Marc Anderson and Marcus Wise.” -Rolling Stone
Read MoreA Man About a Horse–Isthmus
“Tibbetts is one of this city’s great, underappreciated native sons precisely because he deals in a potent magic that’s not easily understood”
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