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Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos

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  • Audio CD (26 Oct 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000006OB6
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,874 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Whether playing noir-like pop with the Lounge Lizards or downtown avant garde with John Zorn, guitarist Marc Ribot has always been drawn to the musical margins--a place where jazz is just one of many colours. He emerged in the 1970s, and seems to bring that era's punkish attitude to bear on all he plays. In this 1998 masterpiece, he offers gloriously dishevelled readings of the music of the veteran Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez and others. Despite the "prosthetic" of the band name he creates a very convincing period sound. His guitar has the scratchy, distorted tone so typical of the overloaded amplifiers of the 1950s and the arrangements enhance the raw, edgy atmosphere. The set is full of evocations of old Havana which either drowse in a heat haze or dance like the carnival, but Ribot adds his own touches, including rough-hewn jazz lines and carefully judged rock & roll feedback. --Mark Gilbert


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Guitarist Marc Ribot is well-known and respected for his session work with the likes of Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, as well as his association with John Zorn and other downtown New York experimental musicians. Like several others in thatscene, Ribot has formed a group to create an outlet for an interest in ethnic music, in this case, the music of the late Cuban composer, instrumentalist, and bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez, who wrote most of the tunes on this CD. The result is a well-crafted album that should bring Cuban music to a whole new audience.
The album's overall feel is understated--on many cuts it's just Ribot, a bassist, a drummer, and apercussionist. Ribot's guitar solos are always highly articulate and he has a great command over a variety of tones. A few cuts also feature organ (either frequent Zorn collaborator Anthony Coleman or John Medeski), and Ribot even takes a couple of spoken vocals on "No Me Llores Mas" and "La Vida Es Un Sueno". The production is spare and uncluttered, givingit a live band sound. Anyone who enjoyed the Latin Playboys' album or Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club is sure to respond to Ribot and company's quirky take on Cuban music.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Astoundingly good - humbling at times., 10 Mar 2000
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I wasn't sure about buying this album when I was quoted sixteen quid. But as Tom Wait's major sidekick surely it must be good I reasoned.

Not wrong and then some. Nothing like 90% of Waitsey, Ribot foretrod the Cuban route a couple of years before the rush and his soaring, almost off key guitar indulgences teamed with a demon bongo player and surely misplaced Hammond organist works astonishingly well.

Generally a tribute album, Ribot really gets under the skin and some tracks you just don't want to end. Great for looking a muso officiando as most people don't know the album and on hearing it - want it! I've raved about it so much and have told many of my friends to "just buy it - if you don't like it I'll give you you're money back!"

Victor Kyam gets the rhythm thing.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Where's this guy at?, 28 Jul 2009
By Mr. Cwp Keyes "dronehut" (Deep Suffolk) - See all my reviews
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It was 'Raising Sand' the multi award winning collaborative C/W, heavy, bluegrass, quasi soundtrack album that prompted me to try some of Marc Ribot's wares but I wasted my money. 'Sand' is an all time keeper, strange sounds gel into an extraordinary blast that many other people have also picked up on. 'Prosthetic Cubans' is a sort of nihilist in joke, I thought that a guitar player with such a lovely sound plus Cuban rhythms equals 'a full price CD' no such luck. It starts off nice in a wine barish way and then slowly sinks under the weight of it's own hagioraphic importance. The hagiography is reserved for the composer of the tunes, Arsenio Rodriguez. I should have stuck with Ruben Gonzales. Can white men play the guitar without being lazy and self regarding? Only if the prodder (or player) is (someone like) T. Bone Burnett it would seem.....
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