{"id":2035,"date":"2004-10-08T20:11:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T01:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?page_id=2035"},"modified":"2022-05-31T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:59:06","slug":"isthmus-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/isthmus-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Selwa&#8211;Isthmus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 2004<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/selwa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23\" title=\"Selwa 220\" src=\"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selwa220.jpg\" alt=\"Ch\u00f6ying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts: Selwa\" width=\"220\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selwa220.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selwa220-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selwa220-72x63.jpg 72w, https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Selwa220-100x87.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Tibbetts left his hometown so long ago that most local folks who enjoyed his previous \u2013 and internationally praised \u2013 pairing with Tibetan Buddhist nun Ch\u00f6ying Drolma don\u2019t realize he\u2019s a Madison boy.\u00a0 Well, he is. And\u00a0<em>Selwa<\/em>, which again matches Drolma\u2019s plaintive, highly musical chanting with Tibbetts\u2019 spare prog backdrops, deserves to be snatched up by anyone interested in cross-cultural collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s remarkable how deftly Tibbetts adds a snippet of processed guitar or a minimalist percussion track to Drolma\u2019s very serious statements of Buddhist philosophy without diluting them.\u00a0 \u201cKyamdro Semkye\u201d is a particularly fine showcase of Drolma\u2019s airy, elastic voice, even if it is brief, while the acoustic guitar-backed \u201cGayatri\u201d is almost unbearably lovely.\u00a0 Six Degrees\u2019 press materials point out that both Drolma and Tibbetts indulge their pop interests on one cut, and that\u2019s true. But all of the music here has a devotional tone and is intended, one imagines, for calm contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff and a must for those who enjoyed the collaborators\u2019 earlier album\u00a0<em>Ch\u00f6<\/em>.\u00a0 Now if only Tibbetts and Drolma would return to Madison for a live concert.\u00a0 Their last one <a href=\"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/isthmus-review\/\">here<\/a> (which included several other members of Drolma\u2019s order) was among the most poignant live musical events the city has hosted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isthmus.com\/news\/news\/tom-laskin-a-madison-original\/\">Tom Laskin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Great stuff and a must for those who enjoyed the collaborators\u2019 earlier album\u00a0Ch\u00f6.\u00a0 Now if only Tibbetts and Drolma would return to Madison for a live concert.\u00a0 Their last one here (which included several other members of Drolma\u2019s order) was among the most poignant live musical events the city has hosted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[11,12,17,46,51,60,64,72],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Selwa--Isthmus &#183; 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