MAGNET Exclusive: Marc Ribot Goes Track By Track On "Map Of A Blue City" - Magnet Magazine

SocialOnce a year, the music virtuoso Marc Ribot comes to the Netherlands (for example in the Bimhuis) and then the guitarist - who touches everything from avant-garde to free jazz to rock - flattens the entire hall. Sometimes that happens with crushing force and deafening noise, but then again inventively and small and beautiful. Solo, with a trio or with Ceramic Dog, the man who worked with and for Tom Waits for years but also for Elvis Costel…

MAGNET Exclusive: Marc Ribot Goes Track By Track On "Map Of A Blue City" - Magnet Magazine

Back in the late ’90s, Marc Ribot pitched an early version of Map Of A Blue City to a label known for “brutal death metal bands and puke-splattered poets.” It was rejected as “too dark.” He tinkered with it for about a decade, recording new versions with the late Hal Willner producing. “But by then, […] The post MAGNET Exclusive: Marc Ribot Goes Track By Track On “Map Of A Blue City” appeared first on Magnet Magazine.

Guitarist Marc Ribot Delivers First Vocal Album On Free-Ranging 'Map of a Blue City' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Marc Ribot’s Map of a Blue City is uneven, unsettling, intriguing, and surprisingly warm but not easily accessible to most. It comes off, probably just as he intended, as a late-night conversation that goes in several directions with the prevailing theme about feeling lost. Even though this is the first time Ribot has added vocals, this is not of the singer-songwriter variety but more as spoken word meditations over his customarily inventive gui…