The Fall of us All - Steve Tibbetts
A favorite of Brian Eno, Roam and Spy is a piece of music which was created in collaboration with guitarist Steve Tibbetts in 1994. Mike's sequenced percussion and screaming Minimoog are very much in evidence as he trades licks with Steve's blasting electric guitar. Marc Anderson joins the fray by adding some human feel to the percussion with is distinctive hand drumming.
Reviews
Rollingstone - October 1994 - David Fricke
"In "Roam and Spy," he shifts with graceful elasticity from revving-motorcycle growls to pitchy dot-dash transmissions and laserlike beams of scream."
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City Pages (Minneapolis) - April 13, 1994 - Will Hermes
"Meanwhile, vocalists Rhea Valentine and Claudia Schmidt, along with bassists Jim Anton and Eric Anderson and synthmeister Mike Olson, add still more textures and patterns to a disc that grows musically deeper on each spin.
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Colorado Daily - April 8, 1994 - David Kirby
Tibbetts' band, especially percussionist Marc Anderson, tablist Marcus Wise and synthesist Mike Olson provide Tibbetts a perfect foil for his broad stroke.
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The $ensible Sound - July 1994 - KWN
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Tibbetts and his cohort, including longtime collaborator Marc Anderson on percussion; Claudia Schmidt and Rhea Valentine, who provide vocalese; Marcus Wise, tabla: Jim Anton and Eric Andersen, bass; and Mike Olson, synthesizers, seem to really be involved in the making of music -- not the packaging of music, or the selling of music, but of the real making of music in the most fundamental, elemental, sense."