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Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals
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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by Troy Collins
Ceramic Dog, legendary guitarist Marc Ribot's new power trio, opens their appropriately titled debut album, Party Intellectuals, with a riotous statement of intent; tearing through a grungy surf-punk take on The Door's “Break on Through," the trio proves they're here to party, political puns notwithstanding.
Ribot's renowned sideman work with Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, The Lounge Lizards and John Zorn (among others) established his singular voice in the nascent Downtown scene two decades ago. A veteran bandleader, Ribot ...
Continue ReadingJohn Zorn: Asmodeus
by AAJ Italy Staff
A proposito di questo CD, il settimo della serie Book of Angels, registrato alla fine dell'inverno scorso, si potrà dire che ormai la saga zorniana prolifera infinita, autoreferenziale, autocelebrativa, che la componente hard rock è sovraesposta e frastornante, che da un brano all'altro non si riscontrano sostanziali differenze timbriche e ritmiche, che... Tutto giusto, ma se consideriamo la produzione dell'eclettico John nel suo insieme, se accettiamo una proposta radicale e l'ascoltiamo al giusto volume e col giusto spirito, magari immaginandoci ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ribot: Asmodeus - Book of Angels Volume 7 & Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Marc Ribot Asmodeus - Book of Angels, Volume 7 Tzadik 2007 In the Country Losing Stones, Collecting Bones Rune Grammofon 2006
Guitarist Marc Ribot is known for his instrumental mastery and ability to play convincingly a dizzying stylistic array. Often overlooked is his uncanny knack for interpreting the music of others. ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ribot: Asmodeus - Book of Angels, Volume 7
by Troy Collins
Asmodeus: The Book of Angels, Volume 7 is the most visceral exploration of the Masada songbook yet. In 2004, composer John Zorn added an additional 300 pieces to his already massive collection of Masada tunes. In the ensuing years, these pieces have been performed and recorded by a variety of ensembles beyond the original Masada Quartet. On the seventh volume dedicated to these new compositions, guitarist Marc Ribot leads a punishing trio featuring bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Grant Calvin ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ribot: The Care and Feeding of a Musical Margin
by AAJ Staff
By Marc Ribot Musicians working in Downtown new music and jazz have a history of self help, often turning to benefits when musicians died leaving family without a pension or got sick without health benefits or when a central venue hit a hard stretch and needed some cash to keep the doors open or buy a PA. I, like most others I work with, have played a number of such benefits over the years. Lately however, ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ribot's Ceramic Dog at Tonic New York
by James Nichols
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog Tonic New York City 107 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington New York, New York
On March 19th Marc Ribot brought to the Tonic his Ceramic Dog. The band was fresh off of a tour of Europe and Turkey, and the venue was standing room only. Ribot opened with a poem, a sort of dry-witted polemic written during the tour (and suiting the venue) about security ...
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