{"id":2187,"date":"1994-01-13T22:13:14","date_gmt":"1994-01-14T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?page_id=2187"},"modified":"2022-06-11T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T02:04:17","slug":"guitar-player-july-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/guitar-player-july-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Us All–Guitar Player, 7\/94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t
<\/a><\/p>\n Veering from ambient dream\u00adscapes to violent, post-industrial rave-ups, from spellbinding acoustic fretwork to apocalyptic electric fret burn, Tibbetts’ first album in five years is an emotional and sonic tour-de-force. The beautiful \/ brutal contrasts and open-ended spirit evoke Bill Frisell and David Torn, but every passage is Tibbetts’ own–it’s hard to imagine a more clich\u00e9-\u00adfree player. And while Steve’s mu\u00adsic is informed by various non\u00ad-Western traditions (particularly in its use of microtonal ornamen\u00adtation and Balinese-inspired per\u00adcussion), everything coalesces in\u00adto a unique, fully realized tapestry–no tacky world beat mix-‘n’ -match here. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.<\/p>\n –Joe Gore<\/a><\/p>\n\n A definitive album of Steve Tibbetts’ polymorphing, acid burn guitar layered over Marc Anderson’s churning world percussion orchestrations. \u00a0Every song is like a roiling journey with enough melody to charge the synapses and enough surprises to keep you forever on edge, whether it be the surprising acoustic guitar turns or the wailing voice of Claudia Schmidt<\/a>. While many artists look outside themselves to\u00a0create global connections, Steve Tibbetts creates his from the inside.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Veering from ambient dream\u00adscapes to violent, post-industrial rave-ups, from spellbinding acoustic fretwork to apocalyptic electric fret burn, Tibbetts’ first album in five years is an emotional and sonic tour-de-force.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2196,"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":[12,14,16,19,22,23,91,28,100,40,41,47,62,90,72],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCD Review \/ January 1994<\/h5>\n