Life of–WeGotMusic, Germany · 9/18

“Es ist schon ein erhabenes Gefühl in die Unendlichkeit des Tibbett’schen Klangkosmos einzudringen. In dieser Musik findet sich so viel, man sollte sie mehrfach hören, um die Stimmungen auf sich wirken zu lassen.”

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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.

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Å–Rykodisc / Hannibal Bio

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

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.”

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Å–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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Å–Downbeat, August 1999

Steve, Turid, Knut, and Marc standing outside the church they recorded in.

“Å (just say “ah”) successful­ly joins the hardingfele, a.k.a. hardanger fiddle, with Tibbetts’ distinctive, often beautiful con­structions.”

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