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Marc Ribot: Saints
by David Adler
Perhaps the most interesting facet of Marc Ribot's solo guitar exposition is its focus on Albert Ayler. Three of the four compositions from Ayler's 1964 recording Witches and Devils appear on the disc, beginning with “Saints," on which Ribot emulates Ayler's austere saxophone cries on guitar or a guitar-like instrument (it's hard to tell). The tone is brittle, the attack aggressive, the pitches practically microtonal--a friend remarked on a certain similarity to Chinese music (echoes of Armstrong on bebop?). The ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos: Muy Divertido! (Very Entertaining!)
by Douglas Payne
>Surely a disc that lives up to its own title, Muy Divertido! (Very Entertaining!) is difficult to consider from a jazz perspective. So maybe it ain't jazz. Maybe it doesn't matter. But, then again, eccentric downtown guitarist Marc Ribot has made a career out of being unpredictable - and never less than totally interesting.On this, his second hip trip to Cuban climes with his group, Los Cubanos Postizos, the landscape is engaging and strikingly pretty. But it's dirty ...
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