"A" - Knut Hamre and Steve Tibbetts

[david cooper orton <or387751@subnet.virtual-pc.com>]

Brian asked:

>> "A" - Knut Hamre and Steve Tibbetts

>what's this one sound like?
>man i miss the days of his heavy spastic guitar collages ( yr,safe
journey,big map >idea,the fall of us all)............his last collaboration
(cho?) didn't really cut it >for me...

It folows on from Cho in as much as that the guitar remains acoustic, as it
did in Northern Song. Knut Hamre is Norweigan and an exponent of the
hardingfele - the hardanger fiddle. Its not "easy listening" by any means
("the fiddlers and their instruments were thought to be in league with
certain spirits, or even Satan himself, or Satan herself" apparently), just
less direct than the out-bursts of sound familiar from the records you list
above. Amazon.com has some sound samples and a bit of background text, and
Steve's own site (listed in the LD Loopers of the world profile list) has
more details via <http://www.frammis.com/a.htm>

So - depends which side of the Tibbetts duality one favours more, perhaps
(not that one can't like both of course), and hope that helps a little. As
to when a solo record is due - he and Marc seem to be touring quite a bit,
so probably nothing that soon?

Cheers

David
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