Format Details:
Release Date: 25 June 2021
Label: Yellowbird
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 767522781526
Release Date: 12 June 2021
Label: Yellowbird
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 767522781519
Description
By May 2020, Marc Ribot had begun to find being depressed depressing. The guitarist who's performed with Tom Waits, Jack McDuff, Diana Krall and countless others and his Ceramic Dog trio - bassist/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith - hadn't played for months. So, all involved decided to head to Ismaily's Figure 8 Recording studio in Brooklyn to record what would become 'Hope'.
The band, which has been releasing music since 2008, devised an order of operations to enter the studio, wash their hands and set up at a safe remove. Ribot, Ismaily and Smith never actually saw each during the sessions because of the safeguards; they were working to keep the bassist's "fucked up" lungs from compromising his health. But because of Ismaily's technical facility, they all "heard each other better than ever," Ribot said. With precautions in place, the trio set about capturing eight originals that reflect the era's uncertainty and cap it with a reimagining of Donovan's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven," where the trio turns the idealistic psych-folk effort into a ruminative, spoken-word piece.
"Wanna," a tune on the new album, simply reflects the band's incalculable joy at being able to play some rock 'n' roll again. But on a few songs [check out "B Flat Ontology"] Ribot flexes minimalist storytelling skills to sketch life's ennui - a kind of pointlessness that goes far beyond existentialism. "My 'No Wave' roots are showing" Ribot said about "They Met In The Middle," a tune that pulses and shuffles, and benefits from the outside contribution of alto saxophonist Darius Jones.
Description
Sophistication has many faces. Certainly among guitar players. Marc Ribot is known to be one of his kin's most unusual protagonists since his brash trashy trademark sound and stubborn intonation enriched Tom Waits' classic Rain Dogs album (1985). With his power trio Ceramic Dog, the multifunctional guitarist from New York has succeeded to produce a gorgeously dirty sounding album. An exceptionally nasty free-funk-psych-electro-punk-bastard, feedbacking with self conscience, withdrawing from the jazz policemens' pull as well as the homuncule idea of one per se "upright" rock music. Present music. This is 21st century jazz, played by a rock group
Ribot's reference list is merely endless, he has played with Wilson Pickett, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithful, Caetano Veloso, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, The Black Keys plus countless others in the last 30 years
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Oded Tzur
Samuel Blaser
Trio Elf
Jun Miyake
Ron Miles
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
JISR
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
