ADVANCE: $20
DAY OF SHOW: $25
DAY OF SHOW: $25
MARC RIBOT RETROSPECTIVE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos
w/ Cotito and La Cumbiamba eNeYe feat. Marc Ribot and La Cumbiamba eNeYe feat. Marc Ribot
w/ Cotito and La Cumbiamba eNeYe feat. Marc Ribot and La Cumbiamba eNeYe feat. Marc Ribot
Fri., May 15, 2009 / 6:00 PM
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MARC RIBOT RETROSPECTIVE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Part of a week-long celebration taking place in venues around the city.
Marc Ribot (pronounced REE-bow) was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. In 1978, Ribot crossed the river to New York City, where he served as sideman for such musicians as jazz organist Jack McDuff and legendary soul shouter Wilson Pickett. Ribot began his five-year stint as a member of the Lounge Lizards (John Lurie’s innovative and influential Downtown jazz ensemble) in 1984. At the time, Marc’s playing, which blended elements of classic Blues guitar with the ironic No Wave/Knitting Factory aesthetic, caught the ear of a number of artists who were also interested in amalgamating and disrupting disparate musical traditions. Ribot performed on some of these singer/songwriter’s finest records, including Elvis Costello’s SPIKE, MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE, and KOJAK VARIETY; Marianne Faithful’s BLAZING AWAY; and Tom Waits’ RAIN DOGS, BIG TIME, FRANK’S WILD YEARS, MULE VARIATIONS, and the recently released REAL GONE.
All the while, the increasingly in-demand guitarist continued to explore the ever-changing terrain of New York’s New Music scene, working with musicians such as Arto Lindsay, Don Byron, Anthony Coleman, T-Bone Burnett, the Jazz Passengers, Evan Lurie, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Chocolate Genius, Bill Frisell, Medeski Martin & Wood, and John Zorn in any number of incarnations.
Ribot also composed and recorded his own brand of Downtown soul music with his bands, Rootless Cosmopolitans and Shrek. In 1996 his recording DON’T BLAME ME, a solo reinvention of American standards, received praise from the Village Voice as “a record filled with savory and unlikely amusements.” In 1998 Atlantic Records released the critically acclaimed MARC RIBOT Y LOS CUBANOS POSTIZOS, featuring Ribot’s beautifully slanted interpretations of material by the great Cuban songwriter Arsenio Rodriguez. In 2001, Atlantic released SAINTS, a solo work where Marc turned well known tunes such as The Beatles “Happiness is a Warm Gun” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” into left of center spacey sound collages.
Musical scores by Marc Ribot include Yoshiko Chuma’s ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT dance piece, a documentary film by Greg Feldman titled JOE SCHMOE, a feature film by director Joe Brewster titled THE KILLING ZONE, and IN AS MUCH AS LIFE IS BORROWED, a dance piece by famed Belgian choreographer, Wim Vanderkeybus.
Part of a week-long celebration taking place in venues around the city.
Marc Ribot (pronounced REE-bow) was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. In 1978, Ribot crossed the river to New York City, where he served as sideman for such musicians as jazz organist Jack McDuff and legendary soul shouter Wilson Pickett. Ribot began his five-year stint as a member of the Lounge Lizards (John Lurie’s innovative and influential Downtown jazz ensemble) in 1984. At the time, Marc’s playing, which blended elements of classic Blues guitar with the ironic No Wave/Knitting Factory aesthetic, caught the ear of a number of artists who were also interested in amalgamating and disrupting disparate musical traditions. Ribot performed on some of these singer/songwriter’s finest records, including Elvis Costello’s SPIKE, MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE, and KOJAK VARIETY; Marianne Faithful’s BLAZING AWAY; and Tom Waits’ RAIN DOGS, BIG TIME, FRANK’S WILD YEARS, MULE VARIATIONS, and the recently released REAL GONE.
All the while, the increasingly in-demand guitarist continued to explore the ever-changing terrain of New York’s New Music scene, working with musicians such as Arto Lindsay, Don Byron, Anthony Coleman, T-Bone Burnett, the Jazz Passengers, Evan Lurie, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Chocolate Genius, Bill Frisell, Medeski Martin & Wood, and John Zorn in any number of incarnations.
Ribot also composed and recorded his own brand of Downtown soul music with his bands, Rootless Cosmopolitans and Shrek. In 1996 his recording DON’T BLAME ME, a solo reinvention of American standards, received praise from the Village Voice as “a record filled with savory and unlikely amusements.” In 1998 Atlantic Records released the critically acclaimed MARC RIBOT Y LOS CUBANOS POSTIZOS, featuring Ribot’s beautifully slanted interpretations of material by the great Cuban songwriter Arsenio Rodriguez. In 2001, Atlantic released SAINTS, a solo work where Marc turned well known tunes such as The Beatles “Happiness is a Warm Gun” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” into left of center spacey sound collages.
Musical scores by Marc Ribot include Yoshiko Chuma’s ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT dance piece, a documentary film by Greg Feldman titled JOE SCHMOE, a feature film by director Joe Brewster titled THE KILLING ZONE, and IN AS MUCH AS LIFE IS BORROWED, a dance piece by famed Belgian choreographer, Wim Vanderkeybus.
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Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos
Cotito and La Cumbiamba eNeYe feat. Marc Ribot
Pan American Music Night presented by Marc Ribot
with La Cumbiamba eNeYe and Cotito
Marc Ribot presents two of the hottest acts from the Americas: the hard-groove of roots-rock cumbia outfit La Cumbiamba eNeYe, Peruvian master cajón player Cotito who Ribot met while touring with Susana Baca.
After meeting the group La Cumbiamba eNeYe at a recording session for a children’s album, Ribot became an instant fan. “They knocked my socks off,” he says. “They’re one of the hardest rocking groups in New York. It’s not the corny pop cumbia you hear on the radio. They’ve done something with roots-rock cumbia that’s really funky.” Ribot will sit in with the band, and also join the master cajón player Cotito. “He gets the full range of a drum kit out of banging this wooden box,” he says. “His sense of rhythm has something in common with metal [music]. When he really digs into a groove it slows down ever so slightly instead of speeding up. Or maybe I imagine that it slows down because my blood speeds up.”
Ribot will be sitting in with both acts!
with La Cumbiamba eNeYe and Cotito
Marc Ribot presents two of the hottest acts from the Americas: the hard-groove of roots-rock cumbia outfit La Cumbiamba eNeYe, Peruvian master cajón player Cotito who Ribot met while touring with Susana Baca.
After meeting the group La Cumbiamba eNeYe at a recording session for a children’s album, Ribot became an instant fan. “They knocked my socks off,” he says. “They’re one of the hardest rocking groups in New York. It’s not the corny pop cumbia you hear on the radio. They’ve done something with roots-rock cumbia that’s really funky.” Ribot will sit in with the band, and also join the master cajón player Cotito. “He gets the full range of a drum kit out of banging this wooden box,” he says. “His sense of rhythm has something in common with metal [music]. When he really digs into a groove it slows down ever so slightly instead of speeding up. Or maybe I imagine that it slows down because my blood speeds up.”
Ribot will be sitting in with both acts!
La Cumbiamba eNeYe feat. Marc Ribot