Although guitarist/composer Steve Tibbetts and Marc Anderson have collaborated since the late 1970s—the percussionist has played on every one of Tibbetts ECM releases—this is their first duo recording ...
Steve Tibbets has taken an approach on A Man About a Horse that brings his open-minded view of improvised music together with an urgency of personal expression. I found Tibbets' mix of world music and ...
“Hellbound Train” is the new double album from extraordinary guitarist Steve Tibbetts. His music is energizing and calming while moving across terrains of cascading 12-string guitar to explosive ...
No one can accuse guitarist Steve Tibbetts of not following his bliss. "Selwa" is as much a sonic pilgrimage as anything else, a serene and spiritual sequel to the 1997 recording "Cho," which paired ...
You would be excused for suspecting there’s a secret subtext to A Man About a Horse (ECM). Minnesotan guitarist Steve Tibbetts admits that the ebbing and flowing compositions, held together by ...
When Tibbetts plays, he creates an exotic sound that conjures images of India. He tells Liane Hansen he went to a concert in St. Paul, Minn., by Indian performer Sultan Khan that had a huge impact on ...
Like Chö, the first collaboration between Chöying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts (in 1997), Selwa honors the sacred music of North and South Asia and delivers a profound example of the modern music world ...
Like a cicada with an eight-year itch, this worldly-wise St. Paul musical wiz seems to be on a slow but steady cycle as he finally delivers a follow-up to 2010's "Natural Causes" and 2002's "A Man ...
Alongside Stephan Micus, Steve Tibbetts occupies a somewhat rare position in ECM's roster of longstanding musical collaborators. Like the German composer/multi-instrumentalist, this "Zen Guitarist" ...
Natural Causes, the guitarist's new album, features longtime friend and collaborator Marc Anderson. Anderson plays gongs, steel drums and exotic... The Exotic Sound Of Steve Tibbetts The Exotic Sound ...