SILENT MOVIES (DIG) IN THANE

Marc Ribot is widely recognized as one of the great guitar originals his distinctively edgy and impassioned sound can recently be found on albums by such diverse musicians as Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, Norah Jones, Allen Toussaint, McCoy Tyner, Marianne Faithful, John Zorn, and The Black Keys. Silent Movies finds Ribot taking another surprising step in a career filled with unexpected turns. Almost a polar opposite of his last release, Party Intellectuals, Silent Movies is mostly filled with his gorgeously contemplative compositions performed solo, with minimal overdubs. The album reflects Ribot s fascination with movies and contains pieces intended to function as music for films: some adaptations of music he has written for film, some for movies that he scored that were never released, some for classic silent films that he scored for his own amusement, and some for films of his own imagination.