$15
NY Guitar Fest & (le) Poisson Rouge present
Tue., February 02, 2010 / 6:30 PM
Audio / Video
Gallery
About This Event
Minimum Age:
18+Doors Open:
6:30 PMShow Time:
7:00 PMDescription:
This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Artists
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog w/special guest Eszter Balint
Marc Ribot - guitar, vocals, occasional bass
Shahzad Ismaily - Bass, Moog, electronics
Ches Smith - Drums, electronics
Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of downtown New York City mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Lounge Lizards, Elvis Costello) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Secret Chiefs 3), with West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music, including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, 80s No-Wave, avant-garde and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith's indie / electronica experimentation, into the power-packed Party Intellectuals.
Eszter Balint's two releases to date, Flicker and Mud, were praised by the likes of The New York Times, The New Yorker and Billboard Magazine. Eszter has appeared on recordings by Michael Gira's Angels Of Light, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and John Lurie's The Legendary Marvin Pontiac's Greatest Hits, among others. Eszter grew up in New York City as part of the avant-garde theater group Squat Theater, and her past acting work includes starring and featured roles in several films, including the seminal indie hits Stranger Than Paradise and Trees Lounge. She joins Ceramic Dog as special guest on vocals, violin, melodica. website: www.eszterbalint.com
Shahzad Ismaily - Bass, Moog, electronics
Ches Smith - Drums, electronics
Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of downtown New York City mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Lounge Lizards, Elvis Costello) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Secret Chiefs 3), with West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music, including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, 80s No-Wave, avant-garde and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith's indie / electronica experimentation, into the power-packed Party Intellectuals.
Eszter Balint's two releases to date, Flicker and Mud, were praised by the likes of The New York Times, The New Yorker and Billboard Magazine. Eszter has appeared on recordings by Michael Gira's Angels Of Light, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and John Lurie's The Legendary Marvin Pontiac's Greatest Hits, among others. Eszter grew up in New York City as part of the avant-garde theater group Squat Theater, and her past acting work includes starring and featured roles in several films, including the seminal indie hits Stranger Than Paradise and Trees Lounge. She joins Ceramic Dog as special guest on vocals, violin, melodica. website: www.eszterbalint.com
Skeleton$
Skeletons (also known as Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys and Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities) are an American entertainment unit from Oberlin, Ohio. They currently live in New York City.
Skeletons began as the solo project of Chicago native musician and filmmaker Matt Mehlan in 2001. In 2003, Mehlan released the albums Life and the Afterbirth and I'm At the Top of the World on Shinkoyo, an Oberlin College-based music collective known for its focus on group improvisation and DIY ethics. Following the name change from Skeletons to Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys and the addition of a rotating cast of collaborators, the full-length Git was released on Ghostly International Records in June 2005. In 2007, Skeletons released the album Lucas, also on Ghostly, under the name Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The album was recorded in the band's converted Queens warehouse studio and home, The Silent Barn.
Lucas was described by Pitchfork as "an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion."[1]
A new full-length entitled "Money" was released November 4, 2008 on Tomlab.
Most recently, the group has occasionally expanded up to 18 musicians as Skeletons Big Band - premiering new large ensemble pieces and songs via a residency at the venerable Roulette in September - as well as performances at Death By Audio in Brooklyn and The Stone.
Skeletons began as the solo project of Chicago native musician and filmmaker Matt Mehlan in 2001. In 2003, Mehlan released the albums Life and the Afterbirth and I'm At the Top of the World on Shinkoyo, an Oberlin College-based music collective known for its focus on group improvisation and DIY ethics. Following the name change from Skeletons to Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys and the addition of a rotating cast of collaborators, the full-length Git was released on Ghostly International Records in June 2005. In 2007, Skeletons released the album Lucas, also on Ghostly, under the name Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The album was recorded in the band's converted Queens warehouse studio and home, The Silent Barn.
Lucas was described by Pitchfork as "an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion."[1]
A new full-length entitled "Money" was released November 4, 2008 on Tomlab.
Most recently, the group has occasionally expanded up to 18 musicians as Skeletons Big Band - premiering new large ensemble pieces and songs via a residency at the venerable Roulette in September - as well as performances at Death By Audio in Brooklyn and The Stone.