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\"\"<\/a>

Grand Canyon, with Kenton Grua<\/p><\/div>\n

“Northern Song<\/a>” is not so much a collection of compositions as one of meditations. \u00a0There aren’t more than a couple of true themes on the entire album, and they are deliberately, painstakingly deployed and developed. \u00a0Steve Tibbetts clings to a musical idea as if it were the last he’ll ever have. \u00a0No chord, no note, no harmony is thrown away; each is repeated over and over.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ve ever heard an album so given over to silence. It stretches out for many seconds at a time, and Tibbetts and percussionist Marc Anderson invade it cautiously. Sometimes the silence is broken only by the murmur of wind chimes or the clawing of a fingernail along a string.<\/p>\n

In a sense, this album is an acknowledgement of the ultimate power of silence over music.<\/p>\n

Listeners wedded to form and structure and momentum will probably find “Northern Song” unsettling, even exasperating. Those who can allow themselves to be transported in the few moments a struck chord endures against the power of silence should find it captivating.<\/p>\n

-M. P.<\/p>\n

Northern Song on ECM Touchstones:\u00a0 50 for 50 years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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