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Passionate Complexity
It's difficult to describe the style of Tibbett's music because it's absolutely unique. No one makes music of a similar style. No one. And if that were all there were to this stuff it might merit some attention - but this music is so much more.

It's probably fair to say that Tibbett's music is not for the timid. This is enormously intense music of great power as well as great subtlety. The dynamic range is enormous, with passages of quiet probing yielding to passages of ferocious attacks of percussion and distorted guitar. There's a vision and a symbol here of life's intense complexity and dynamic range, and the listener whose brain also works these channels of thought and emotion is likely to experience a powerful confirmation of their sense of life. For those not consonant with this way of understanding the world this music can seem fractured, dissonant, fearful, and terrifying, even in it's moments of quiet beauty. It's certainly a symbol system that conjures a worldview, and "The Fall Of Us All" is probably the apotheosis of Tibbett's development of his expression to date (the more recent and also magnificent "A Man About A Horse" works similar ground in a different way - a little more intensely focused with a less broad canvas). There's astonishing texture and atmosphere in this recording. It envelops you and probes at you from varying directions and at different velocities, with shapes appearing and dissolving in the mist, only to gather for moments of accumulating focus and power, occasionally prolonged almost to the breaking point (a technique especially prominent on Tibbett's previous "Exploded View"). The compositions are masterfully structured in their lack of conventional structure. How many musicians can forge a musical identity by embracing complexity and ambiguity, and probing so incisively the subjective objectivity of the world, with its extremes and apparent contradictions? For all that, this is an affirming journey, both for its astonishing revelatory power and it's breadth of expression. Tibbetts is another of those American masters, quietly working his amazingly fertile ground away from the masses who will never journey with understanding to a land of this complexity that asks, and rewards, so much.

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Otherworld Music
In a perfect marriage of form and content,Tibbets and long time collaborator Marc Anderson really shine on this disc of otherworld music.
Tibetan punk rock / Cambodian bluegrass/ Brazilian chanting / African insect folk dance tunes /symphonies of rhythm... it is all here.... and more.
Buy...Enjoy.

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exellent
I was listening to this Record quite often several Years ago, it was my "explore the possible Musics" Phase. This Record set the new Standards at me, i saw how beatiful and wonderfull it can get, i always avoid to make statements of "Perfection". But, sure This Record is very close to Perfection.
Like the other Reviewer, i categorize this record as a Musical
Experience of highest order.
I remember it was 4 o'clock in the morning, it was as if i left the World behind with this wonderfull Music, my foots were cut off the ground.