Silent Movies by Marc Ribot
"A visionary guitarist, Ribot is a fount of pithy
commentary."
--New York Times
"He is mercurial in the best possible sense and
impossible to categorize neatly."
--National Public Radio
“Silent Movies is a gorgeous and insular detour for downtown guitar visionary Marc Ribot, a dude best known for frenetic Tzadik -endorsed aggro-jazz, wild excursions with Cuban music, atonal balloon-rubbing antics, and percussive ejaculations on any number of Tom Waits albums. The album is a meditative and sober hour of solo guitar work that ranges from gorgeous to foreboding, everything played with the meticulous unspooling of bittersweet black-and-white slapstick. Its 13 tracks were all composed for films—some released, some delayed, some imaginary—and each bulge with a slow, unraveling sense of drama. “Delancey Waltz” was composed for the as-yet-unreleased John Malkovich indie flick Drunk Boat but doesn’t require images to tell its tale, as Ribot gently strums out his sad, kinetic, intimate tumble.”
-- Chris Weingarten
Tracklist
| 1. | Variation 1 | 1:51 |
| 2. | Delancey Waltz | 3:18 |
| 3. | Flicker | 5:22 |
| 4. | Empty | 2:04 |
| 5. | Natalia in Eb Major | 5:16 |
| 6. | Solaris | 3:47 |
| 7. | Requiem for a Revolutionary | 5:31 |
| 8. | Fat Man Blues | 4:49 |
| 9. | Bateau | 4:59 |
| 10. | Radio | 4:05 |
| 11. | Postcard from N.Y. | 8:31 |
| 12. | The Kid | 4:16 |
| 13. | The Sous Le Ciel de Paris | 6:46 |
Credits
Marc Ribot - solo guitar, vibraphone (track 12)
Keefus Ciacia - soundscapes (tracks 1, 3, 7, 11, 13)
License
All rights reserved.
Ribot was born in Newark,NJ in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. He moved to New York City in 1978. He was a member of the soul/punk Realtones, and John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. Ribot has worked extensively with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, composer John Zorn and producer T Bone Burnett.