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Silent Movies

by Marc Ribot

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    Single disc vinyl reissue. Includes a DL code for full album download. Vinyl track listing:

    Side One
    1 Variation 1 1:51
    2 Delancey Waltz 3:18
    3 Flicker 5:19
    4 Empty 2:04
    5 Natalia in E♭Major 5:15
    6 Postcard from N.Y. 6:45

    Side Two
    7 Bateau 4:58
    8 Fat Man Blues 4:47
    9 Solaris 3:47
    10 Radio 4:05
    11 Sous le Ciel de Paris 5:00

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Variation 1 01:51
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Flicker 05:21
4.
Empty 02:04
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Solaris 03:46
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Bateau 04:59
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Radio 04:04
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The Kid 04:16
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about

"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

credits

released September 28, 2010

Marc Ribot - solo guitar, vibraphone (track 12)
Keefus Ciacia - soundscapes (tracks 1, 3, 7, 11, 13)

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Marc Ribot New York, New York

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. ... more

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