steve tibbetts: c/d

I am very happy to report that to me this sounds closest to Northern Song, my favorite of his records. Just what I need right now.

This guy's never made a bad record though

Yeah, this is fantastic.

The heavier use of piano really ups the emotional ante a lot. It's definitely picking right up where the last two moody tracks on Natural Causes left off. I love how his later albums have no repetition in the songs. Very much feels like collective improvisation in that regard. And this new one is even more sparse than I had expected. It's a very hefty listen, for sure, but ultimately, eerily gorgeous.

Have been taking walks recently whilst listening to Steve's discography on shuffle. Something about walking around the now significantly less busy streets with his music is actually very comforting. In random order I hear these songs that I recognize in contexts that I don't; all while walking around familiar locations that now seem less familiar without the usual traffic and company of strangers.

Still never checked out the albums with Chöying Drolma. Seems like there's no time like the present.

hi this is tangential—

a while back he posted an ecm mixtape and it's predictably fantastic. some probably pretty obvious choices, but also some real curveballs. xpost to ECM: C/D, S&D

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my inability to crop my own feet of the photo now has me drifting off to thoughts of shoegazing tibbetts... northern song / pygmalion fusion ftw.