Posts Tagged ‘tabla’
Hellbound Train: An Anthology
Hellbound Train: An Anthology ChandograBlack Mountain SideHellbound TrainNyemmaFull Moon Dogs Some Bio, Some Background Hellbound Questions: ECM’s Interview Hellbound Origins: More Background MyECM playlist Order or download (–the CD package & booklet created by Sascha Kleis is extraordinary–) Some Reviews Santa Cruz Sentinel NYS Music Some Articles Jazziz Some Interviews ECM’s Podcast Interview CKCU Recording…
Read MoreCompilation–Acoustibbetts / Elektrobitts / Exotibbetts
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 MoreLife 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.
Read MoreMyECM
I curated a playlist for ECM as part of their venture into the world of streaming (an article from Pitchfork is here). My annotations for the playlist are below, and a more concise version is on ECM’s website here. The playlist is now up at Tidal and Spotify. Steve’s ECM playlist I curated selections from (mostly)…
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 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 MoreThe Fall of Us All–Soundscapes
“A sense of looped transcendentalism is never far away in the first suite with its swooping guitar distortions, Anderson’s relentless and entirely appropriate percussion and the carefully mixed contributions from samples and the other musicians which creates Tibbetts’s unique kinetic sound sculptures.”
Read MoreThe Fall of Us All–CD Review & Baltimore Sun
“the best thing about “The Fall of Us All” is the astonishing fluidity of Tibbetts’ guitar work, which can be as percussive as a tabla pattern or as liquid and lyrical as a Hendrix solo”
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