Napping or Jungian Archetype
Tibbetts is new to me, though he has an established and
highly regarded musical career as an innovative, distinctive guitar player, on
this album his Martin 12-string acoustic. He has been with the ECM label
since 1981.
In a quote I found out there, he has referred, I’m sure sarcastically,
to aspects of his music as,
We did many interviews
for the Choying albums, and writers were eager for me to talk about plumbing
Jungian archetypes or pulling up buckets of inspiration from the primal
substrate and bringing already-formed music into corporeal existence, giving it
back to the world and so on ad nauseam. If all could gaze online at my
recording studio Steve-web-cam they’d see vacant stares, gnashing of teeth,
rending of garments, confusion, and naps.
and I would say this album Life Of resides more in the nap
rather than rending arena, and by ‘nap’
I am not being pejorative but rather locating its calm, meditative and therefore
soothing atmospherics. The guitar is plucked and notes bent and even at times,
as in Life of Joel, riffed in fast
repetitions, and the piano is a constant if delicate accompaniment, percussion
and other sounds adding ambient variations – but it is always fundamentally as
far from gnashing as a toothless but
very comforting pet Kintamani.
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