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Man About a Horse
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0044001706820
Label: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Ecm Records
Release Date: 2002-08-06
Studio: Ecm Records
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Customer reviews of Man About a Horse
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Customer Rating:  
Summary: NO YR
Comment: Having been a fan of Steve Tibbetts for around 20 years now, I was a little disappointed in " Man About A Horse". Some time back in the eighties I heard one track from the album "YR", actually two tracks combined.
"Sphexes and Ten Years". Never had I heard such intricate accoutic guitar combined with what I like to call BLAZIOD electric guitar, and tape looped kalimba.(African thumb piano) This sent me on a search for more of the same. My hunt led me to a previosly recorded record simply entitled Steve Tibbetts. Another piece of guitar and recording magic. (Both are still available)
Not being and Indie freak, I was intrigued by the independent releases, especially "YR" on "YR Records".
Then a while later, as I was working in the record retail business I came across what to me was a new release by Tibbetts. "Safe Journey" on ECM records. This was a little frightening as I was never a big fan of to many of the avant-garde artists normally recorded on the German label. (Kieth Jarret, Chick Corea and the likes).
But I gave it a chance, and I was not horribly disappointed. Still some of what I liked in the first two records, just a little less aggressive and a bit more ambient. Long before "Ambient" was cool. Turns out I has Missed "Northern Song" in between. Far more Ambient then the following release. Then came more. "Big Map Idea", "Exploded View" and "The Fall Of Us All". (Not in order) I began to also learn of his interest in the Eastern Philosophies and religious practices, which is all well and good, don't get me wrong, I'm not attacking hinduism or Buddha, but I feel it took it's toll on the melodies associations with other artist. Strictly my personal opinion. Tibbetts has strayed to far from the original sound that I loved most about his music. "Man About A Horse" is by no means a return. I fear another lost artist to their causes. Witness Bono (U2) and Sting (Police) who unfortunately became more concerned with setting out their messages than composing the good and interesting music they started with.
If you want the BEST of Steve Tibbetts, stick to the first four or five albums. But by no means discard the rest.
You'll never know unless you give it a try, give it a listen, take a chance. It's only money. Google the mans name and read the Wikipedea article and reviews for better information.
P.Ling/Phoenix
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Summary: Fusion meets tomorrow
Comment: Steve Tibbetts is a guitar -- wait -- a music God.
As per his other collections this is yet another step into previously uncharted musical territory. I know of no other music that sounds anything even vaguely like what Tibbetts constructs, this makes it especially hard to describe. This could be a sound track for another world, one where emotions have texture and exhibit color while they make sounds. Against Eastern drums, Tibbetts' guitar work is alternatively etherial and warlike in it's ruthless aggression, only to suddenly fall back to the etherial. If the world were a complex machine directed by a sea of emotion, it might perhaps sound like this. Like I said, this music is difficult to describe -- but it is real and it is music and I like it very very much.
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Summary: spiritual awakening.
Comment: This is one of the best 'jazz' albums I have heard on ECM. It is difficult to explain what I find so compelling about it. It is very different from the other Tibbetts album I have, _Ys_. Tibbetts largely does away with Western jazz conventions here, adopting a much more "Eastern" paradigm -- these compositions unfold in unbroken, monothematic, rising-and-falling shapes. The rhythmic core (two percussions and double-bass) give the album a likelife pulse over which Tibbett's unique, feedback-glazed guitar style is sober and meditative. The track divisions actually seem pretty arbitrary, and whether played continuously in order or on shuffle/random, the album is a fluid journey of emotions and gorgeous imagery. Such is the aural beauty captured here that I cannot hope to explain it with words, but everytime I listen to this album it feels like my heart will burst. highly recommended.
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Summary: music...
Comment: ...that's all you need to call this. One of the keys to appreciating the creativity of Steve Tibbetts is to force yourself to shed any preconceived notions of 'genre'. It's fine in the case of some artists -- but when relating to the music of Tibbetts, it will only impose limitations that are destined to be shattered.
There are elements of assorted styles present in Tibbetts' compositions and playing -- but in the manner of many contemporary classical composers, he has passed through these territories, absorbing and metamorphosing the aspects of them that touched him, emerging with new forms at his command. His guitar is his voice, reflecting the creativity that lives and breathes in his soul. He combines acoustic and electric guitars on this recording -- ably aided by long-time collaborators Marc Andersen (percussion), Marcus Wise (percussion) and Jim Anton (bass) -- into a shimmering audio landscape. The percussion drives the pieces along nicely, without ever overpowering -- the presence of a 'standard' drumkit would be an obstacle, I think, to the mood-generating ability of Tibbetts and crew.
Steve Tibbetts is a master of mood -- the 'story' or 'narrative' aspect of his work is strong as well, but not as overtly presented as in the music of other artists. The listener has to be willing to devote some time and attention to this recording -- but it's more than worth the effort.
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Summary: MOR Tibbetts
Comment: A good effort by-in-large, utterly fantastic in places. I couldn't find much thematic continuity in about half of the songs in this outing, but that doesn't seem the main objective of the creative process here -- Tibbett's heavily distorted staccato chords and gut-wrenching guitar soloing mingle with pastoral guitar washes and thoughtful 12 string fingerings and are combined with his collaborater's percussive inputs resulting in music collages of beautiful originallity.
The Red Temple, Burning Temple, Lachana and Chandoha each tell a story or trigger various sensory imaginations to my mind, while the others either lack flow (Black Temple) or never seem to get beyond a vague idea of a story or an emotion. I understand there's a certain 'calculated randomness' to the workings of the universe, but it's not necessarily interesting to listen to except, perhaps, as an uber look into the interpretations on, or construction of randomness from one man's mind...
If you're new to Steve Tibbetts, this is a very decent work to start with. Not his most accesable (his 2nd album, the overtly emotional "YR" easily takes that honor), but it has some astonishing recording dynamics and guitar and percussion muscianship that you'll find in few other places. If you like the more sedate pieces (or pieces of pieces) you hear, travel next to his "Safe Journey" album then his recent effort with Choying Drolma from 2004; if you like the more percussive and electric guitar dynamics then try Exploded View followed by the even more experimental dynamics of "The Fall of us All."
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Editorial Reviews:
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After a pair of extraordinary but esoteric albums with a Tibetan nun and a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player, respectively, Steve Tibbetts returns to the form of albums like Exploded View. Tibbetts is a shaman with a guitar, although he would cringe at the designation. But what else to make of a musician whose music seems to rip across the fabric of reality, opening up into a sometimes beautiful but often tumultuous world? A student of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibbetts dispels the idea of serene meditation with a sound that rivals the spirit-awakening call of Tibetan trumpets. It's a whiplash mix of throbbing percussion, clangorous samples, plaintive acoustic guitar, and roiling electric fury. Gentle Balinese and finger-picked acoustic guitar segments waft like the scent of jasmine, only to be consumed by thundering drums and electric guitar that ascend from the abyss, spitting hellfire. Like a morphing mandala, A Man About a Horse reveals different aspects and richer details through each listening. --John Diliberto
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