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Steve Tibbetts

Hellbound Train

ECM
Release Date: July 1, 2022

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1 Full Moon Dogs  
2 Chandoha  
3 Lochana  
4 Black Temple  
5 Burning Temple  
6 Glass Everywhere  
7 Roam And Spy  
8 Hellbound Train  
9 Nyemma  
10 Your Cat  
11 Vision  
12 Chandogra  
13 Climbing  
14 Black Mountain Side  
15 Start  
16 100 Moons (excerpt)  
17 Mile 234 (excerpt)  
18 Wish  
19 Ishvarana  
20 Bloodwork  
21 Life Of Someone  
22 Life Of Emily  
23 The Big Wind  
24 Aerial View  
25 Night Again  
26 My Last Chance  
27 End Again  
28 Threnody  
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Steve Tibbetts: guitars, dobro, piano, kalimba, percussion; Marc Anderson: congas, percussion, gongs, steel drum, handpan; Michelle Kinney: cello, drones; Jim Anton, Eric Anderson, Bob Hughes: bass; Mike Olson: synthesizer; Marcus Wise: tabla; Tim Weinhold: vase, bongos; Claudia Schmidt, Rhea Valentine: voice (collective personnel)
Recordings 1981-2017

ECM 2656/57 2CD: 6024 4557480 3 Release: 1. Juli 2022

A question for Steve Tibbetts

Hellbound Train is a double album anthology drawn from your work on ECM. What was the criteria for inclusion? How did you select the pieces? Is this The Best Of Steve Tibbetts?

  • On Hearts of Space...a 'selective retrospective' of the unique Minnesota guitarist and composer: Steve Tibbetts
    Posted At: March 24, 2023 12:00 AM
    As we slog wearily but hopefully through the last storm of winter and welcome the transition to spring, it’s a good time to reconsider the music of the singular Minnesota guitarist and composer STEVE TIBBETTS—a man who fully lives the life of an artist, while still being a responsible citizen, a compassionate family man, an entertaining storyteller, an international traveler to the mountains of Nepal and th...
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  • Steve Tibbetts chats with Northern California Public Media
    Posted At: January 23, 2023 12:00 AM
    Steve Tibbetts is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. His fusion of exotic and urban sonic landscapes offers an intuitively receptive approach to sound creation. He plays guitars, synthesizers, and percussion instruments, using the recording studio as another musical instrument. His music weaves elements of vanguard improvisation, jazz, rock, ambient, and his interpretation of global folk traditi...
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  • Steve Tibbetts' guitar crosses musical and geographic borders / The CAP TIMES Q&A
    Posted At: January 8, 2023 12:00 AM
    Steve Tibbetts is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. His fusion of exotic and urban sonic landscapes offers an intuitively receptive approach to sound creation. He plays guitars, synthesizers, and percussion instruments, using the recording studio as another musical instrument. His music weaves elements of vanguard improvisation, jazz, rock, ambient, and his interpretation of global folk traditi...
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  • Steve Tibbetts - Hellbound Train, An Anthology makes 'All About Jazz - Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings Of 2022'
    Posted At: December 5, 2022 12:00 AM
    A few questions for Steve TibbettsHellbound Train is a double album anthology drawn from your work on ECM. What was the criteria for inclusion? How did you select the pieces? Is this The Best Of Steve Tibbetts?It’s not exactly a “Best of.” It’s “The Best Steve Could Do.” That’s meant in the most positive sense. I made samples of the first and last 10 seconds of my compositions, mapped them out across the ke...
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  • Steve Tibbetts, Hellbound Train makes JAZZIZ: The Week in Jazz
    Posted At: August 23, 2022 12:00 AM
    Hellbound Train is a double album anthology drawn from Steve Tibbetts work on ECM. What was the criteria for inclusion? How did you select the pieces? Is this The Best Of Steve Tibbetts?Steve Tibbetts writes…It’s not exactly a “Best of.” It’s “The Best Steve Could Do.” That’s meant in the most positive sense. I made samples of the first and last 10 seconds of my compositions, mapped them out across the keys...
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  • Steve Tibbetts music is energizing and calming, moving across terrains of cascading 12-string guitar / Santa Cruz Sentinel
    Posted At: July 27, 2022 12:00 AM
    A few questions for Steve TibbettsHellbound Train is a double album anthology drawn from your work on ECM. What was the criteria for inclusion? How did you select the pieces? Is this The Best Of Steve Tibbetts? It’s not exactly a “Best of.” It’s “The Best Steve Could Do.” That’s meant in the most positive sense. I made samples of the first and last 10 seconds of my compositions, mapped them out across the k...
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  • PRX: Echoes rides a 'Hellbound Train' with Steve Tibbetts
    Posted At: July 25, 2022 12:00 AM
    We ride a Hellbound Train with Steve Tibbetts. He is an icon of Echoes and he has a new double CD of music from across his 40 years at ECM. We talk about his unique approach to music and guitar. Join John Diliberto with Steve Tibbetts on Echoes from PRX.Hellbound Train is a double album anthology drawn from your work on ECM. What was the criteria for inclusion? How did you select the pieces? Is this The Bes...
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  • 'Hellbound Train' tells the story of Steve Tibbetts artistic vision, and encourages new fans to dig deeper / The BIG TAKE OVER
    Posted At: July 1, 2022 12:00 AM
    The BIG TAKE OVER's Michael Toland writes….It sounds like hype, but it’s the truth: there’s no one like Steve Tibbetts. The Minnesota guitarist and composer has created a near-five decade body of work that straddles several genres (jazz, folk, rock, ambient, various types of world musics) without sitting comfortably in any of them. From delicate 12-string acoustic drones to raging electric firestorms to uni...
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  • With a wide range of left-field styles, none of the tunes on Steve Tibbetts - Hellbound Train settle into a single genre / JAZZ VIEWS
    Posted At: June 28, 2022 12:00 AM
    A compilation of tunes from Northern Song, Safe Journey, Exploded View, Big Map Idea, The Fall Of Us All, A Man About A Horse, Natural Causes and Life Of.JAZZ VIEWS - Chris Baber writes….Over the past four decades, Tibbetts has been creating a musical genre that is uniquely his own.  While it nods towards a wide range of left-field musical styles, none of the tunes settle into a single genre.  It ...
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