Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
Well, I’ve searched the thread and this...
...doesn’t appear to have been mentioned, which is astonishing.
I was sitting in the kitchen of @foxwelljsly just before Christmas exchanging views over a mug of coffee. ‘You like Naked City, and Zorn’s Books of Angels - you ought to hear ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ he told me.
What he should have done was grab me by the lapels and shout ‘I’m not letting you leave the table until I have seen you place an order for it!’ because it is fabulous.
My copy arrived today - I’ve only managed CD1 so far, but that’s good enough. At times it sounds (unsurprisingly) like Naked City, at other times (when Jamie Saft’s Fender Rhodes goes multo distorto) like the Cellar Door Sessions, sometimes like King Crimson might have been in 1974 had Ian McDonald rejoined, sometimes (when the electronics kick in) a bit like Hawkwind.
The playing is extraordinary, but Marc Ribot is the star, sounding from time to time like Pete Cosey, Todd Rundgren, Adrian Belew as well as a good deal like Marc Ribot. I really wish I’d seen this live - I would have been punching the air a lot. I did tonight after Metal Tov, and that was sitting in my armchair.
...doesn’t appear to have been mentioned, which is astonishing.
I was sitting in the kitchen of @foxwelljsly just before Christmas exchanging views over a mug of coffee. ‘You like Naked City, and Zorn’s Books of Angels - you ought to hear ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ he told me.
What he should have done was grab me by the lapels and shout ‘I’m not letting you leave the table until I have seen you place an order for it!’ because it is fabulous.
My copy arrived today - I’ve only managed CD1 so far, but that’s good enough. At times it sounds (unsurprisingly) like Naked City, at other times (when Jamie Saft’s Fender Rhodes goes multo distorto) like the Cellar Door Sessions, sometimes like King Crimson might have been in 1974 had Ian McDonald rejoined, sometimes (when the electronics kick in) a bit like Hawkwind.
The playing is extraordinary, but Marc Ribot is the star, sounding from time to time like Pete Cosey, Todd Rundgren, Adrian Belew as well as a good deal like Marc Ribot. I really wish I’d seen this live - I would have been punching the air a lot. I did tonight after Metal Tov, and that was sitting in my armchair.
