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Marc Ribot at Arts + Literature Laboratory

Where

Arts + Literature Laboratory
111 S Livingston St, Suite 100
Madison, WI
Map
(608) 556-7415

When

Wed, September 3, 2025
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Marc Ribot
guitar

About

Auricle New Music Series welomes guitarist and singer-songwriter Marc Ribot in support of his new album Map of a Blue City on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 7:00pm.Ribot will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily for an evening of deep listening. Tickets are $25.00 general admission, or $20.00 for students (with ID) and ALL members. Advance tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets.

Marc Ribot released Map of a Blue City in May 2025 via New West Records. The 9-song set was produced and mixed by Ben Greenberg based on original studio sessions produced by Hal Willner, as well as home recordings. Most renowned as a wildly inventive guitarist who has collaborated with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Wilson Pickett, Marianne Faithfull, Caetano Veloso, Solomon Burke, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Neko Case, among many, many others, Map of a Blue City features Ribots imaginative playing and leads to what may be his definitive statement as an instrumentalist, as a songwriter, and even as a singer. While its not a traditional singer-songwriter album, it is his first to center his plaintive, wise voice quite so prominently throughout. Map of a Blue City showcases songs colliding disparate traditions: roots, bossa nova, no wave, noise, free jazz, and sounds that have no genre associations. Mostly featuring original compositions, the collection includes Ribots rendition of the Carter Familys When the Worlds on Fire as well as his treatment of Allen Ginsbergs 1949 poem, Sometime Jailhouse Blues....

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