“His recent output remains unpredictable with 2009’s ‘Ceramic Dog’ being an aggressive power-trio effort firmly in the rock vein. Now he returns with an excellent new album titled ‘Silent Movies.’ Here Ribot pulls a 180 from his previous album, offering up soft, nuanced solo pieces that are meant as movie scores, some that according to the liner notes “never existed outside my head.” It shows yet another facet to one of today’s great players. I recently caught up with Ribot to get the lowdown on the new album, being a sideman and what’s it like to be a guitarists’ guitarist.”
by Tad Hendrickson, interview @ Spinner.com
“Silent Movies (out now September 28, via Pi) 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.”
by Chris Weingarten, interview @ Village Voice
Silent Movies, the new release from guitar great Marc Ribot, finds him taking another surprising step in a career filled with unexpected turns. One might expect a program of solo guitar music from Ribot to be filled with bracing atonality or studies in texture. Instead, Silent Movies is filled with performances of gorgeou....... more
“His recent output remains unpredictable with 2009’s ‘Ceramic Dog’ being an aggressive power-trio effort firmly in the rock vein. Now he returns with an excellent new album titled ‘Silent Movies.’ Here Ribot pulls a 180 from his previous album, offering up soft, nuanced solo pieces that are meant as movie scores, some that according to the liner notes “never existed outside my head.” It shows yet another facet to one of today’s great players. I recently caught up with Ribot to get the lowdown on the new album, being a sideman and what’s it like to be a guitarists’ guitarist.”
by Tad Hendrickson, interview @ Spinner.com
“Silent Movies (out now September 28, via Pi) 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.”
by Chris Weingarten, interview @ Village Voice
Silent Movies, the new release from guitar great Marc Ribot, finds him taking another surprising step in a career filled with unexpected turns. One might expect a program of solo guitar music from Ribot to be filled with bracing atonality or studies in texture. Instead, Silent Movies is filled with performances of gorgeou....... more
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