Words // Sarah V I was fortunate enough to be in New York City for Joe Henry's two concerts at City Winery recently. To add to my great luck, my favorite guitarist, Marc Ribot, was the opening act both nights, and he sat in with the band on a few songs during the main set as well. The band consisted of the same set of musicians that were on Joe Henry's recent studio album, "Reverie," plus his son, Levon Henry, as a guest saxophonist on a few songs. (Unlike other acts of on-stage nepotism I've witnessed [...]
So in addition to Vimeo's still ongoing "Old Ideas With New Friends" series , which has already seen Bradford Cox , Cold War Kids , Cults , and The Afghan Whig's Greg Dulli cover tracks from the great Leonard Cohen, there's also a covers album of Cohen's 1967 debut that comes included in the new issue of MOJO magazine. Contributing artists included Bill Callahan, Cass McCombs, The Low Anthem, Field Music, and ex-Fleet Fox'er Father John Misty , as well as Marc Ribot and My Brighest Diamond, who teamed up for a bonus track version of "Bird on [...]
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Marc Ribot Trio - Live in Bishopsgate Institute London 2011 (by ribotaddict ) Personnel: Marc Ribot: Guitar Henry Grimes: Bass Chad Taylo: Drums
Last Night: Marc Ribot The KesslerDecember 1, 2011Better than: Not crying Listening to guitarist Marc Ribot have his way with a song is an adventure. The kind of adventure Griffin Dunne found ... Continue reading "Marc Ribot at the Kessler " >
Words // Sarah V When I heard Marc Ribot was bringing his Ceramic Dog band to the Boston area, I was beyond thrilled. When I found out it was going to be three blocks from my house at the tiny little Lilypad venue in Inman Square, I figured life just doesn't get any better. My favorite live rock band - right here in the neighborhood! Although calling them a rock band doesn't quite convey the right mood - they are a wild, funk- and punk-influenced noise-rock band with a talent for developing killer grooves. Mr. Ribot [...]
For the uninitiated the music of Tom Waits is a challenge at best. It's slightly abrasive, filled with odd guitar tunings, clanking rhythms, off-beat time signatures and of course Waits' unmistakable vocals, which sound something like a ragged world-worn homeless man that has been drinking cheap whiskey and smoking unfiltered cigarettes for the last 50 years. While those things might be a turn off for some people, they are the things that his scores of dedicated fans love about the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter . Waits' music is as undeniably progressive as it is familiar, a hauntingly creaky blend of rock, folk, jazz, blues and [...]
You're right – that isn't a photo of Marc Ribot. Or of anyone else named on the ticket to this event, which listed the following artists' names on it: Marc Ribot, Matthew Bourne, Mayming. However I wasn't at this gig to see any of those. It seemed a little odd to me just how little billing was being given to the presence of one Henry Grimes as part of Ribot's trio, given that his recorded – and unrecorded – history makes for a legend that would dwarf that of most jazz musicians on the planet. Read the rest of this [...]
A well-rounded Tom Waits album in 2011? Well, ya' don't say...
Here's the predictably super-contrasting second single from Tom Waits' upcoming album Bad As Me . Are we on for an eclectic mix of musical genres in the vain of Orphans ? From Tom's official site: "'Back in the Crowd' is a romantic ballad featuring the Spanish Tinge guitar work of both David Hidalgo ( Los Lobos ) and long time collaborator, Marc Ribot . Crooned in his best "Jim Reeves-meets-Elvis tenor" Waits' describes his richly intimate performance "as an old fashioned jukebox tune for [...]
Marc Ribot (by Peter Gannushkin )
La Cumbiamba eNeYe, featuring Marc Ribot, performing "Sombrerito Blanco" at the Oval in Stuyvesant Town, NYC 6-30-10.
Marc Ribot @ Teatro Palamostre, Udine (by Gabriele Fuso ) The ever charming Marc Ribot speaks to the Montreal Gazette . "Avant-garde is a very old-fashioned word. To talk about an avant-garde, you have to believe that history is going in a single direction and that you are in the front guard of this column of soldiers. I have big doubts about all this – it may be expanding in a circular direction or it may not be going anywhere."
On Wednesday night we had the pleasure of stopping in at Le Poisson Rouge to catch the first-ever live performance by two of the greatest guitarists out there today. Nels Cline and Marc Ribot came out to a packed house at LPR to bring together their unique styles, and reward the room with an evening of uniquely riveting composition that left us hungry for more. The first half of the set was entirely acoustic, with the two trading lead [...]
words & photos by Benjamin Lozovsky It could have been a showdown - a forceful match of skills, an exhilarating yet grueling slugfest . Instead, it was purely symbiotic and nurturing, a solemn and unwavering alliance between two endlessly energetic musical minds. Marc Ribot and Nels Cline , perhaps the two greatest living guitarists dispensing a seamlessly cerebral yet hefty blend of virtuosic avant-jazz and rock fusion, performed in tandem Wednesday night at Le Poisson Rouge [...]
Tinariwen will release a new album called Tassili on August 30 via Anti- Records (pictured above). The album was recorded entirely acoustic with contributions from Tunde Adebimpe & Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio , the Dirty Dozen Brass Band , and Nels Cline of Wilco (who plays a show with Marc Ribot at LPR on June 15th ). Tinariwen will head out on a short North American tour in July which will hit the Winnipeg Folk Festival and the previously [...]
The philosophy tenet of dualism has a long history, going back at least as far as Plato. Many noted figures have weighed in over the year, all concerned to a greater or lesser degree with the concept of a sharp division between two states of being. These might be self/not-self (Buddhist dualism), mind/body (Zoroastrian dualism), subject/observer (scientific dualism), and tune/words (Humphrian dualism). It's this latter case that I want to deal with today. Put simply, any given song can be broken up into two parts. One of these parts is what we like to [...]
Here's another musical surprise. I dunno, maybe with Marc Ribot we should have come to expect the unexpected. He's recorded albums of Cuban music, tributes to Albert Ayler, no wave scoriations, and he's a regular fixture in the bands of both John Zorn and Tom Waits. True to form, his Ceramic Dog project is like nothing else he's ever done. It's a band who know how to alt.rock hard. Girlfriend comes from the 2008 album Party Intellectuals , and it's all about the heavy beat and the drunken electronic warbling. Oh, [...]
Dia 6 - A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Musicbox, Lisboa Dia 8 - Linda Martini + Filho da Mãe - Centro de Artes do Espectáculo, Portalegre The Allstar Project - Passos Manuel, Porto Dia 9 - Swans - Aula Magna, Lisboa Diamanda Galás - Guarda The Allstar Project - Bar N101, Guimarães Dia 10 - Swans - Casa da Música, Porto Dia 12 - Marc Ribot - Cinema São Jorge, Lisboa Dia 14 - Paus + Hookers on Rockets - Hard Club, Porto Dia 15 - Mr. Joe Black - Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, Coimbra Dia 16 [...]
Famed Nashville guitarist Buddy Miller has achieved near-legendary status as a gifted sideman and Grammy-nominated producer on projects like Robert Plant's recent Band of Joy. But beyond Miller's skillful fretwork and finely tuned studio ear is a deep appreciation and encyclopedic knowledge of classic American roots music: the dusty musical intersection of raw and honest country, shuffling blues riffs, colorblind soul and the power of rock and roll. His inspired and inspiring new album Buddy Miller + The Majestic Silver Strings (March 1, New West) is a welcome culmination of Miller's unequivocal genius. With a world-class [...]
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