Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog // Break On Through

Longtime Tom Waits and Elvis Costello guitarist Marc Ribot made a welcomed comeback in 2008. The guitarist and composer worked with Jolie Holland on her album The Living and the Dead and with the Black Keys on two tracks for Attack & Release (So He Won’t Break and Lies).

Ribot also founded the new power trio Ceramic Dog. He is joined by bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith. His new album Party Intellectuals is one of his best in years. Ribot’s signature free-jazz sound is accompanied by heavy rock chords. His punk-rock version of the Doors ‘Break on Through‘ is excellent.

Dig Deeper: Marc Ribot – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos

From Ribot’s website:
Ceramic Dog
1. chien du faience: expression: frozen with emotion, as in the perfectly still moment before a fight breaks out.
2. Ultimate kitsch object.
3. A free/punk/funk/experimental/psychedelic/post electronica collective, featuring Marc (Cubanos Postizos, John Zorn, Tom Waits, etc etc), plus two of the best young players on the New York/California underground improv/experimental rock scene, Shazad Ismailly (bass) and Chess Smith (drums)
4. Not a ‘project’: a real band.

Download:
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog – Party Intellectuals (itunes)
Marc Ribot – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (iTunes)

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2 Responses to “Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog // Break On Through”

DeanMoriarty Says:
December 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am
thanks again!
Deiter Says:
February 11th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Mark was also guitarist for a stint in John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. I discovered Marc through a mostly brilliant album 1990 Rootless Cosmopolitans (not available on iTunes for some reason). Marc’s albums reach out in a lot of directions so there’s always the possibility that some of the flights won’t take you along. Or course, one of the great/misfortunate aspects of life in the iPod age is that you can skirt around all that. (Los Cubanos Postizos while not typical MR is a good, not too outre, place to start.) Break on Through is the kind of experiment he’s done before: Take an iconic classic and beat the living hell out of it. (See his versions of The Wind Cries Mary, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Caravan to wit.) It’s the man channeling the boy’s lust for banging on cooking pots with large spoons. It works for me.

Thanks for uploading!