Alternative Editions of Contemporary Music.

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For once I'm speechless! Thank God for Robert Fripp and CD :)

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Nice one Mark! Finally someone has been paying attention. That YR album is an absolute stunner encompassing both his electric and acoustic skills.

Here's a story : since I got my new cdp only a few weeks ago (first in twenty years!) I've moved away from downloads etc because I just cannot believe how good the cd medium really is. So there and then I decided to fill in any Tibbetts gaps I had n my collection. I have all the vinyl (naturally!) including multiple copies of much loved albums especially YR. I have an original private Frammis edition plus the reissued ECM edition. Now here's the thing : when I went looking for YR on cd I was aghast to find that it's no longer in the ECM catalogue. Then Discogs reared its ugly over priced head. I thought only second hand vinyl was overpriced! I was wrong. So I'm currently on the lookout for YR on cd.

You do know about the free triple cd/download best of that Steve put out back in 2010? Unfortunately I went for the download and now I'm hoping to find that delicious triple offering. I've only started to look, so we'll see how far I get. Last night when came across this link on Steve's site : Scroll to bottom : https://stevetibbetts.com/licensing/

Got my Tibbetts compilation! It came this morning.

Short story: I contacted Steve about the availability of this set. After a few days he got in contact with me and give me a link to a "record" shop in Minneapolis who had it in stock. I'd conjecture it's his local haunt but I could be wrong. Anyway after a fruitless time trying to order it I eventually gave up. Gremlins and glitches everywhere! Out of frustration I keyed in the title of the set on Discogs and I was staggered to find who had it. Our own Freebird!!!!! Well I'll be damned! Ordered it straight away needless to say! It arrived this morning and it really is a thing of beauty; a triple cd set totalling 50 tracks from his vast repertoire inside a slimline cd box.

Epilogue 1 : Steve told me to wait until v.8 gets a release in a few weeks/months time. But, of course, I couldn't wait.

Epilogue 2: I got most of my Tibbetts vinyl in Freebird over the years when I used to work in Dublin. Still have them obviously and it's great to have a compilation like this not in chronological order which gives a completely different aspect to his music. Bliss!




Acoustitibbetts/Elektrobitts/Exotibbetts


https://electricfetus.com/CustomPage/1167 - I dare you to take the virtual tour. A record shop? Only in the US of A 🎸

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My very first foray into the phantasmagorical world of lil' Lilith. As influential as it gets.....and nary a tv 📺 to spoil the view 😊







https://thequietus.com/articles/24467-n ... ure-review

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Steve Tibbetts again :) This time with Knut Hamre. Out of print so I was lucky to catch its flight as it flew through the ether.....Å







"Å by Steve TibbettsSteve Tibbetts doesn’t make it easy. The innovative Minneapolis-based guitarist has cut some of the most idiosyncratic albums to come out of the German ECM label. Since moving to Hannibal/Rykodisc, he’s given them the difficult but critically acclaimed album called Chö, setting the chants and hymns of Tibetan nun Choying Drolma to an abstract ambient landscape. Now there’s Å, an album of ambient chamber works centered on the hardingfele, or Hardanger fiddle.

The hardingfele is a violin with a flat bridge and sympathetic strings like a sitar. Usually played as a solo instrument, it sounds to the uninitiated like fiddler Vassar Clements playing an Indian raga after his dog has died. But once you get past the atonality of the instrument, it opens up a world of hardscrabble tradition and that isolated, forlorn character that goes deeper than a Nordic cliché. Steve Tibbetts has been intoxicated by this sound for years, and on A he teams up with Norwegian hardingfele player Knut Hamre, clearly a Heifitz of hardingfele. Joined by a core group of fellow hardingfele player Turid Spildo, Tibbetts’s longtime percussionist Marc Anderson, and jazz bassist Anthony Cox, the guitarist orchestrates ambient improvisations and atmospheres that hark back to his ECM debut, Northern Song. Like that album, Å–also recorded in Norway–brims with haunting moods and textures that splinter like the spider-web cracks of an ice-covered lake.

This isn’t Norwegian folk music. Instead, it’s the hardingfele spirit that is steeped in Nordic mythology and legends of trolls. You can just picture the gnarled creatures cavorting to Tibbetts and Hamre’s dance."

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For me the ultimate King Crimson, so far.

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For me the ultimate King Crimson, so far.

Absolutely 100 % agree! It was one I initially wanted to go for but was advised otherwise. In a way it's a good thing I came to it by the scenic route as I can REALLY appreciate the frightening dynamics on display. Plus I was very pleasantly surprised with the Sailors Tales box set (my initial buy) especially Mel Collins gargantuan contribution. The production especially is magnificent. And, of course, let's not forget David Cross coming to the front more on the Starkess set. All that's left is the Larks Tongues box set which I've already ordered. Obviously this is the runt of the litter especially in sonic terms on the live stuff (mostly audience recordings) but I'm really, really interested in the other additions from the studio recordings of LTIA and elsewhere. After all that I can now bask in the knowledge that I'm truly in the lap of the Gods with this amazingly accomplished band and their boxsets. Definitely the best rediscovery ever! I'm now set up for life 🎸

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** Much needed repress, 400 copies only ** With hindsight, the scene which emerged in Britain during the late 1970s and 80s, birthing seminal projects like Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, Dome, Cabaret Voltaire, Nurse with Wound, Current 93, and a great many more, is among the most fascinating junctures of music which has occurred during the last 50 years. Often cast under the banner of industrial music, a term which defies its true breadth and divinity, it's impossible to overstate the range, singularity, and importance of this energetic transition of Punk into an intersecting series of entirely visionary and experimental forms. Now, drawing on their deep dedication to rich veins of neglected underground sound, Vinyl On Demand's latest release - a double LP survey of the remarkable outfit, Two Daughters - Recordings 1979 -1981, takes the ear into the heart of rarely heard territories of this incredible scene.

Like so many projects of their moment, Two Daughters were short lived and sinfully under-documented, producing only two releases - a self-titled cassette, and a single LP, Kiss The Cloth / Gloria, between 1980 and 1981, before concluding activity the following year. Based in Brixton and comprised of Anthony Burke and an artist simply know as Paul, they were closely associated with Throbbing Gristle and Nurse with Wound, but very little other information survives. We're not for a small group of dedicated fans who championed the project's output over the years, all would have likely been lost.

Recordings 1979 - 1981, gathers the lion's share of all the available recorded material from Two Daughters - drawing from their lone releases, into a beautifully produced double LP, marked by the high standards for which VOD has becomes renowned. Far from the standard expectations of what industrial music is historically understood to have been, it is a mesmerizing journey into DIY experimentalism with no loyalties and nothing to loose. Beautiful melodic lines rest in harmony against atonal ambiences, and driving percussion, and flowering avant-garde approaches, which stand up roughly 40 years on.

Wonderful from start to finish, Two Daughter's Recordings 1979 - 1981 is yet another revelation from VOD - an essential piece of the puzzle in all that was. As historically important and musically fascinating as releases come, at long last offering this long overlooked project pride of place. Sure to sell out fast, grab it while you can!

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