Steve Tibbetts - Life Of (2018)
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Fusion, Experimental | Label: ECM Records - ECM 2599
After another extended break (which has become a trademark), guitarist Steve Tibbetts returns to ECM with Life Of, his eighth album for the label in 36 years. Breaking with his own precedent, this is his second acoustic offering in a row following 2010's Natural Causes. That said, aside from recording with his 12-string Martin guitar and a piano, and mixing in the concert hall of Macalester College, the two projects have an altogether different feel. The music on the former has a more active, nearly ritualistic feel. Life Of is more basic, stripped down, and less pronounced. The guitar is a skeletal tone generator, a gateway with a nearly obsessive sense of economy.