MARC RIBOT - AFA VISION 24

MARC RIBOT - AFA VISION 24

 Dunston / Ribot / Rodriguez / Taylor Quartet | AFA Vision 24 (1 of 3)
Dunston / Ribot / Rodriguez / Taylor Quartet | AFA Vision 24 (2 of 3)
Dunston / Ribot / Rodriguez / Taylor Quartet | AFA Vision 24 (3 of 3)
Marc Ribot - guitar, voice / Jay Rodriguez - tenor sax, flute / Nick Dunston - bass / Chad Taylor - drums. Filmed
& recorded at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY at Vision 24, June 12, 2019
This new quartet unites old friends. Drummer Chad Taylor and guitarist Marc Ribot have toured together for
over 12 years in Spiritual Unity; Ribot and Jay Rodriguez have jammed in various ensembles since the early
90s, when Ribot sat in with Jay’s legendary Groove Collective session; and new to the scene is bassist Nick
Dunston, who Ribot met in 2018 when Nick attended a seminar he was teaching at The New School. During a
recent European tour to promote his latest release, Songs Of Resistance, Ribot realized that this quartet had
the potential to be an ongoing project. “The level of musicianship with Chad, Jay, and Nick is just so high...I
realized this is the group to continue the exploration we began with Spiritual Unity, and to check out some
compositions I have been quietly working on for awhile."
The American avant-garde guitarist and composer Marc Ribot plays to individual works of the MARLENE
DUMAS exhibition at Fondation Beyeler.
Australian performer and National Sawdust artist-in-resident Sophia Brous joins with New York icon and
guitarist Marc Ribot to premiere a new collaboration with Shazhad Ismaily on percussion.
In the Birth of Tragedy, Frederik Nietzsche theorized the religious myth of Silenus (“the best thing for you would
be to have never been born”) as the trauma that necessitated the birth of the artistic beauty of Greek Tragic
theater.
The Carter Family’s “When the World’s On Fire” points to a different process at work in American culture: when
utopian optimism collided with the lived reality of the New World and produced apocalyptic visions of devils,
fire, and brimstone. As Greil Marcus writes, paving the way for the “devil” as a primary antagonist in the
sublime musical expression of musician Robert Johnson and a blues and gospel musical heritage of enormous
power and beauty.
Whatever the political effects of these socio-religious transformations might be, it seems clear to us that they
have “stung…into poetry” some of the great beauty of the wellsprings of our musical heritage.
Today, as myth and fantasy spill out into the political stage, New York icon, guitarist Marc Ribot joins with
National Sawdust artist-in-resident, celebrated performer and vocalist Sophia Brous to premiere a new
exploration into songs of beauty, disorder and dissent for a new America, where the blurred lines between
dream and waking call on a new songbook of lullabies, hymns and songs of resistance to guide us in the days
ahead.

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