With Nothern Song, Steve Tibbetts made his ECM debut and introduced listeners to what remains one of the label’s most enchanting, if slowly unfolding, maps. The cover seems to tell us everything: silhouettes of islands superimposed on the journey that takes us to them, as if the dream of arrival were potent enough to burn itself across the rearview mirror of our lives
PERSONNEL:STEVE TIBBETTS, guitars, kalimba, tape loops
MARC ANDERSON, congas, bongos, percussion
Recorded October 26-28, 1981, at Talent Studio, Oslo
TRACKS:01. The Big Wind
02. Form
03. Walking
04. Aerial View
05. Nine Doors / Breathing Space