Steve Tibbetts
Yr

THE REVIEW

This is my first (many of you will surely say also the last) review on DEB and I suggest you listen to this jazz - fusion album, with deep progressive, psychedelic and avant-garde influences, recorded in 1980 for Frammis Records by the Minneapolis guitarist Steve Tibbetts, titled "Year", but also known as "Yr".

It is the second album of the talented multi-instrumentalist Steve who plays guitar, kalimba, and synthesizer and is excellently supported by Marc Anderson on drums and percussion, Bob Hughes on bass, Steve Cochrane and Marcus Wise on tabla, and finally Tim Weinhold who tackles bongos, pottery, and bells.

The beautiful and unique original album cover was designed by Tibbetts himself, although it surely draws inspiration from the works of H. G. Giger and Moebius.

The album contains eight instrumental tracks, all characterized by Tibbetts's skill in recording overlapping instrumental overdubs on a 8-track TASCAM with skillful and refined balance between electric and acoustic ones.

The flow of the music is at times hypnotic like in the track "Ten Years" with its intertwining bells and guitar arpeggios, at times it has a syncopated rhythm that merges with the guitar as in the track "UR" or even "atmospheric" as in the track "The Alien Lounge".

Ultimately, an album to (re)discover to detox from the soulless music being produced in this new millennium.