STEVE TIBBETTS
A Man About A Horse
Steve
Tibbetts' guitar speaks in Eastern tongues: the acoustic liquid-raga curls
of "Lupra"; the watery electric suggestion of Tibetan monks
deep in murmured prayer in "Black Temple"; the icy distortion
whipping through "Glass Everywhere." A Minnesota instrumentalist
whose pursuit of the transcendent in feedback and non-Western scales has
taken him to Nepal and Indonesia and encompasses ten albums since 1977,
Tibbetts also loves to rock: He recorded much of the searing guitar on
"A Man About A Horse" in a single night, over frenetic Balinese
drum samples colored and doubled by percussionists Marc Anderson and Marcus
Wise. And Tibbetts' white-hot screams and dives in "Chandoha"
combine echoes of Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, wailing as one in the snowy
peaks of Kashmir. Rolling
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