synthfreek Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Steve Tibbetts-A Man About A Horse-This was a Stereophile Magazine "Recording of the Month" recently and the review intrigued me enough to buy it. Tibbetts is an experimental guitarist along the lines of noone I've heard. Fantastic soundstage...nice and wide. HUGE walls of guitar sound with DEEP tribal percussion and nice ambient synth work. Released on ECM and that's usually a good thing. HERE is a review. The closest comparison I can come up with is to Michael Brook. He's the inventor of the "Infinite Guitar" that The Edge uses. He produced and AMAZING album about 10 years ago on 4AD Records titled Cobalt Blue and is also highly recommended. Give 'em a listen if you're yearning for something a little left-field. If not, go buy a SKINNERD(sic) cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artto Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 I'll give it a try. My recent "find" is a SACD, Superbass2 on Telarc, recorded at the New York City Blue Note. Ray Brown, Christian McBride & John Clayton. All upright Bass. Nothing else. You'll be amazed. ("we don't need no stinking drums") ("we don't need no stinking vocalist") ("we don't need no stinking violin") ("we don't need no stinking keyboards") ("we don't need no stinking horns").......oops yes you do. to reproduce the bass' full DYNAMIC RANGE you do. and that horn's name is KLIPSCH............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Sounds like an interesting recording I'll have to check it out. Many years ago there was a drum corp in the Emancipation Day parade in Windsor Ontario that played nothing other than drums of one sort or another and were able to play melody and harmony. They astounded me not only because they were able to play recognisable songs solely on the drums but also because they sounded so damned good. That band was no mere novelty act ! The parade is/was a celebration commemorating the abolition of slavery in America and African-American and African-Canadian folks get together for what was at that time one hell of a party. Windsor is the site of the celebration because Windsor and the surrounding area were arguably the most important "stations" on the underground railway in the days when slavery was still legal in the US and the only way for most blacks to escape slavery was to escape their owners and go underground and be smuggled to Canada or less frequently to Europe. I am not sure but I believe some escaped slaves also fled to Mexico. I can't say whether the Emancipation Days Celebrations are still held in Windsor as I left the area many years ago. Perhaps someone from the Detroit/Windsor area could provide more information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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