Steve Tibbetts - The Fall of Us All
Steve Tibbetts
The Fall of Us All
ECM 1993
Produced by Steve Tibbetts
Personnel:
Steve Tibbetts - Guitars, Percussion, Discs
Marc Anderson - Congas, Steel Drum, Percussion
Marcus Wise - Tabla
Jim Anton, Eric Anderson - Bass
Claudia Schmidt, Rhea Valentine - Voices
Mike Olsen - Synths
Steve Tibbetts has been around for decades holed up in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he isn't busy searching for new musical structures in places like Tibet, Nepal and the Polynesian Islands. A rather eclectic mix puts him in an overlap in spaces also travelled by folks like Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Jah Wobble among others.
His guitar style is a collage of approaches; from pastoral, resonant acoustic work to punked-out electric feedback and short bursts of compressed riffing and slurred out drones. On this album (his only release of the 1990s) he relied on open backdrops of fever-dream synthesizers, tribal percussion and the occasional vocal chant to build rythmic structures to snake his stringwork through.
The album starts with an electro-crash angular workout called Dzogchen Punks which simply alternates between pummeling you and relenting for 7 minutes of sonic catharsis. Like Tom Morello meets the Dalai Lama. Nyemma crosscuts Celtic and Balinese percussion with a sweet sounding acoustic phrase here andthere as it builds to a delirious apogee and then crashes down in an apoplexy inducing noise-solo. Formless is largely well named, since most of it comes down to sounding like a long tone poem, rather than a typcially structured composition, with long, complicated lines of interlocked string instruments providing the propulsion before things fully disintegrate. Hellbound Train is a dark and distressed slow motion nightmare that sounds like Porcupine Tree doing the theme for the movie Deliverance.
The album was clearly meant to be listened to as a full work, and it paces well as such. While certaily not designed for the faint of heart, those that enjoy a more varied content may enjoy this. It makes for engaging listening or as a rather lush backdrop to a really avant-garde martini party.
You might like this if you like:
Dead Can Dance - any
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Eno/Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Fripp/Rieflin/Gunn - The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior
The Fall of Us All
ECM 1993
Produced by Steve Tibbetts
Personnel:
Steve Tibbetts - Guitars, Percussion, Discs
Marc Anderson - Congas, Steel Drum, Percussion
Marcus Wise - Tabla
Jim Anton, Eric Anderson - Bass
Claudia Schmidt, Rhea Valentine - Voices
Mike Olsen - Synths
Steve Tibbetts has been around for decades holed up in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he isn't busy searching for new musical structures in places like Tibet, Nepal and the Polynesian Islands. A rather eclectic mix puts him in an overlap in spaces also travelled by folks like Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Jah Wobble among others.
His guitar style is a collage of approaches; from pastoral, resonant acoustic work to punked-out electric feedback and short bursts of compressed riffing and slurred out drones. On this album (his only release of the 1990s) he relied on open backdrops of fever-dream synthesizers, tribal percussion and the occasional vocal chant to build rythmic structures to snake his stringwork through.
The album starts with an electro-crash angular workout called Dzogchen Punks which simply alternates between pummeling you and relenting for 7 minutes of sonic catharsis. Like Tom Morello meets the Dalai Lama. Nyemma crosscuts Celtic and Balinese percussion with a sweet sounding acoustic phrase here andthere as it builds to a delirious apogee and then crashes down in an apoplexy inducing noise-solo. Formless is largely well named, since most of it comes down to sounding like a long tone poem, rather than a typcially structured composition, with long, complicated lines of interlocked string instruments providing the propulsion before things fully disintegrate. Hellbound Train is a dark and distressed slow motion nightmare that sounds like Porcupine Tree doing the theme for the movie Deliverance.
The album was clearly meant to be listened to as a full work, and it paces well as such. While certaily not designed for the faint of heart, those that enjoy a more varied content may enjoy this. It makes for engaging listening or as a rather lush backdrop to a really avant-garde martini party.
You might like this if you like:
Dead Can Dance - any
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Eno/Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Fripp/Rieflin/Gunn - The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior
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