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Extended Analysis

Silent Movies

Read "Silent Movies" reviewed by Warren Allen


Amidst all the guitar heroes, face-melters and shred lords, Marc Ribot has risen to prominence as one of the more distinctive players. Well-versed in punk, New Orleans, soul-jazz, metal, down-home roots music, the avant-garde and just about everything else in the musical kitchen sink, Ribot taps into a brash mix of energy and humor that allows him to toy lovingly with tradition and genre. From beautifully faux Cuban music to unabashedly dissonant punk-jazz, Ribot always plays with an edge, which ...

Album Review

Marc Ribot: Silent Movies

Read "Silent Movies" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Solo a chi non ha seguito da vicino i passi di Marc Ribot nell'ultimo decennio Silent Movies potrà apparire come l'ennesima svolta spiazzante di un inguaribile eclettico o, peggio ancora, un episodio minore, quasi un capriccio, nella discografia del chitarrista di Newark. Niente di più approssimativo e lontano dalla realtà: Silent Movies è un'opera perfettamente coerente, l'esito più entusiasmante di quel percorso di riscrittura della grammatica delle sei corde che da un bel pezzo ormai sta al centro della galassia ...

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Multiple Reviews

Marc Ribot: El General & Italian Doc Remix

Read "Marc Ribot: El General & Italian Doc Remix" reviewed by Stuart Broomer


John Zorn El General Tzadik 2009 Marco Cappelli Italian Doc Remix Itinera 2008

Marc Ribot has an unusual combination of talents: a strong musical personality and an ability to give himself wholly to the realization of another musician's project. Perhaps it's most evident in his copious recordings with John Zorn including ...

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Film Review

Marc Ribot: The Lost String

Read "Marc Ribot: The Lost String" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Artist Marc Ribot The Lost String La Huit Distribution 2008

Marc Ribot once wanted to sound like jazz guitarist/Blue Note legend Grant Green but, as this film by Anais Prosaic shows, he has gone far beyond jazz in his musical odyssey. His quest, as a player and an innovator, has led him into blues, klezmer music, noise, the avant-garde, classical music, Cuban, instant improvisations and “noise"--all equally part of his artistic nook.

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Album Review

Sarah Jane Morris: Migratory Birds

Read "Migratory Birds" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Gli album di cover non sono sempre uguali. Non tutti sono rassegne noiose e calligrafiche buttate giù più per rispettare contratti discografici e assecondare periodi di aridità artistica. No, non sono tutti uguali. Prendete questo CD, ad esempio. Sarah Jane Morris (sta per pubblicare il nuovo CD, Where It Hurts, a maggio prossimo) ha una voce da far impallidire chiunque. Vale quattro ottave e ha un timbro che è difficile dimenticare. È possente, ma agile. Graffia, ma accarezza. È caldo, ...

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Multiple Reviews

Marc Ribot: Exercises in Futility & Technicolor

Read "Marc Ribot: Exercises in Futility & Technicolor" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Marc Ribot Exercises in Futility Tzadik 2008 Giovanni Maier Technicolor Longsong Records 2007

A humble line might be drawn from Bach's Das Wohltemperirte Clavier through John Zorn's The Book of Heads to Marc Ribot's Exercises in Futility. All are essentially sets of exercises meant to highlight certain techniques. And while several players have ...

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Album Review

Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals

Read "Party Intellectuals" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Inquadrare, classificare, etichettare. Il compito di chi scrive una recensione spesso si riduce, per mere questioni pratiche o per manifesta incapacità, a indicare le assonanze che richiamano un artista e la sua opera. Beh, provateci voi con Marc Ribot. Dalla no wave newyorchese alle genialate di Tom Waits, dalla scuderia zorniana alla downtown, dalla musica cubana a Elvis Costello, dagli omaggi a Giacinto Scelsi alle dichiarazioni d’amore per Albert Ayler, il chitarrista di Newark è musicista onnivoro e sfuggente, a ...


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