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It’s guitar nirvana on the next Vinyl Vault when we feature a 1980 release from Steve Tibbitts entitled “Yr.” This was Tibbitts’ second album and was originally released on Tibbitts’ own label, Frammis Enterprises. The LP was later picked up by ECM and reissued in 1988. But the Vinyl Vault has the original release with the original artist-approved mix.
This album doesn’t contain just music, but rather it’s an entire ecosystem, a total immersive soundscape. Tibbitts creates a symphony of a dozen or more overdubbed guitars layered upon one another like geologic strata exposed by the erosion of the Grand Canyon. The soaring guitars are usually underlain by multi-textural, multi-cultural percussion. The whole expanse will build to a climax, then retreat to the intimate and solitary sound of a lone acoustic guitar. Tabla, kalimba, dobro, sitar, congas, glockenspiel all provide a fluid, ever-changing backdrop to Tibbitts’ shape-shifting 12-string and elect