Steve Tibbetts: Big Map Idea

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Experimental guitar collides with tabla, kalimba, pianolin, cello, steel drum and other percussion instruments, and tapes of "found sounds." The CD opens with a lush cover of Jimmy Page's "Black Mountain Side," and ever afterwards devotes itself to the vast, mysterious explorations of Tibbetts and percussionist Marc Anderson. The music's brooding and orchestral, with moments of Eastern intrigue giving way to sudden crescendos, children's voices, and industrial grunge. Tibbetts' bold single-string passages pilot twists and turns above slapped and strummed acoustic rhythms, and his quirky detunings and oddball figures provide a cinematic, edge-of-the-seat experience. No timidity or lack of ideas lurking here.

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Tracks

1. Black Mountain Side
2. Black Year
3. Big Idea
4. Wish
5. Station
6. Start
7. Mile 234
8. 100 Moons
9. Wait
10. 3 Letters

Steve Tibbetts guitars, dobro, kalimba, pianolin, tapes
Marc Anderson percussion
Marcus Wise tabla
Michelle Kinney cello