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Marc Ribot
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (September 18, 2001)
  • Original Release Date: September 18, 2001
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Atlantic / Wea
  • ASIN: B00005NSQW
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #91,557 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Saints
2. Book Of Heads
3. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
4. Empty
5. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
6. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
7. Go Down Moses
8. St. James Infirmary
9. Somewhere
10. Holy Holy Holy
11. It Could Have Been Very Very Beautiful
12. Witches And Devils

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On this solo CD, guitarist Marc Ribot takes a break from his Afro-Latin dance group, Los Cubanos Postizos. With his biting and twangy electric and acoustic plectral tones, Ribot turns well-known tunes such as the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim show tune "Somewhere" and the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," into spacey, left-of-center sound collages full of bite and humor. John Zorn's "Book of Heads" rings with a Middle-Eastern tone and Ribot's takes on the spiritual "Go Down Moses" and the classic "St. James Infirmary" highlight his debt to gospel and the blues. The title track and "Witches and Devils," both penned by saxophonist Albert Ayler, provide the best showcases for Marc Ribot's bold, six-stringed excursions into uncharted sonic territory. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Interestingly peculiar solo guitar music, September 20, 2001
By William Merrill "eclecticist" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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I'm amused by the thought that someone might pick up this CD as a "solo guitar" release and expect something like the Windham Hill guitar stuff. Boy would they be in for a surprise! Listening to this is the musical equivalent of eavesdropping on a mad scientist fooling around in his laboratory. While the disc does have its melodic passages - such as Ribot's haunting version of John Lurie's "It Could Have Been Very Very Beautiful" - it's just as likely to hit you with an off-the-wall, experimental piece like "Book of Heads #3" (a John Zorn thing). Throughout the CD, John creates some fascinating sounds with his extreme manipulations of the guitar. Some of the tracks are utterly engrossing, such as the buzzes, scrapes, and moans that make up "Empty." Somehow he combines those sounds to produce a feeling of desolate spaciousness, like bad reception on a radio station from another plane of existence. Then there's his remarkable take on the Beatles' "Happiness Is A Warm Gun." He twists and layers the notes yet retains the song's integrity; this is a version I'm certain John Lennon would have really dug. Sometimes the pieces can be discordant or head-scratchingly obtuse, but Ribot is so good I'm willing to tag along with him as he wanders down many different avenues.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars If Miles or Bird played guitar., May 18, 2002
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The secret of Marc Ribot is to understand he's not from this planet. He's some sort of sorceror. He's one of these guys who invents musical forms as he goes along. Pioneer is a good word. Genius is a good word. As with his Tom Waites' stuff, he breaks new ground here. If you like your music 4/4, with every note neatly in place, you'll hate this CD. If you dig Dali and Picasso in art, you'll love Ribot on the 6-string.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Strange Set, December 3, 2001
By Stephen (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews
I've heard Ribot on everything from Zorn to his latin thing to Elvis Costello and he continues to surprise me. This set seems at first to be an off-the-cuff little session, but after repeated listenings (I can't seem to stop listening) it reveals a great deal of thought. He manages to bring out the melodic side of Ayler songs while really messing with the Beatles and some "standards."

This is a cd I can't fully describe. Its strange, beautiful and compelling, all at the same time.

With the backing of a major label, the recording is like being in the same room and the packaging is quite nice. Lets hope he's not booted off the label the same way Columbia boots their artists.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Wow. Disapointed by a Ribot Effort For The First Time
This avant gard jazz guitar exercise by Mark Ribot is just a bit too avant gard for me. I'm a certified Ribot fluffer too. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing.
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Published on May 2, 2005 by Michael Stack

1.0 out of 5 stars Just didn't work for me
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Published on March 23, 2005 by N. Lang

5.0 out of 5 stars making wrong right
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Published on November 22, 2004 by T. Huff

1.0 out of 5 stars avant twaddle
This cd is a dull exercise in lame NY avant guitar twaddle. Luckily it only cost me 2.98. Spare yourself the financial losses, and avoid this junk at all "costs."
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5.0 out of 5 stars It Could Have Been (and is) Very Very Beautiful
Marc Ribot, like many of the musicians currently part of the New York Underground, has proven his versatility time and time again. Read more
Published on December 15, 2003 by space_antelope

1.0 out of 5 stars don't mistake this for musical creativity
Picture this: mediocre and possibly inebriated solo guitar player half-heartedly warming up in the studio with the tape rolling for 45 minutes. Read more
Published on July 16, 2003 by itazura_jackson

4.0 out of 5 stars Django Rheinhardt reincarnated
Marc Ribot ain't everybody's cup o tea. I discovered him on Tom Waites' Big Time, and read the small print to see who the hell that incredible guitar player was. Read more
Published on June 13, 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Tripe trying to be Avant Garde
Having taken up guitar when I was 13 and investing 40 years of experience and experimentation I was overwhelmed by the deja vu of this cd. Read more
Published on May 15, 2003

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