Steve Tibbetts

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 traditions. Tibbetts calls his music "post-modern neo-primitivism." His acclaimed string of intermittent releases for ECM began with 1982's acoustic Northern Song. 1989's panoramic...