MARC RIBOTS CERAMIC DOG - HOPE (RSD 2021)

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 and Robert Plant, The Black Keys plus countless others in the last 30 years.