โEvery movement which has ever won anything has had songs,โ says Marc Ribot.
With his new album Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance 1942- 2018 (ANTI-), Ribotโone of the worldโs most accomplished and acclaimed guitar playersโset out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The eleven songs on the record are drawn from the World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement, and Mexican protest ballads, as well as original compositions, and feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius....
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โEvery movement which has ever won anything has had songs,โ says Marc Ribot.
With his new album Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance 1942- 2018 (ANTI-), Ribotโone of the worldโs most accomplished and acclaimed guitar playersโset out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The eleven songs on the record are drawn from the World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement, and Mexican protest ballads, as well as original compositions, and feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius.
Over a forty-year career, Ribot has released twenty-five albums under his own name and been a beacon of New Yorkโs downtown/experimental music scene, leading a series of bands including Los Cubanos Postizos and Ceramic Dog. Since his work with Tom Waits on 1985โs Rain Dogs album, though, he is best known to the world as a sideman, playing on countless albums by the likes of Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, the Black Keys, and Robert Plant and Alison Kraussโ Grammy-winning collaboration Raising Sand.
Along with his musical efforts, Ribot has also been an outspoken activist/community organizer in a number of causes, from affordable housing to musiciansโ rights in the digital age. During his time on the protest lines, he became aware of the diminishing
At a time of such overwhelming social turmoil, finding a focus for this kind of project is challenging. Nevertheless, Ribotโs purpose remained clear. โThereโs a lot of contradiction in doing any kind of political music,โ he says, โhow to act against something without becoming it, without resembling what you detest. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what to do, and I imagine weโll make mistakes, and hopefully, learn from them. But I knew this from the moment Donald Trump was elected: Iโm not going to play downtown scene Furtwangler to any orange-comb-over dictator wannabe. No way.โ
Portions of the albumโs proceeds will be donated to The Indivisible Project, an organization that helps individuals resist the Trump agenda via grassroots movements in their local communities. More info on The Indivisible Project can be found at https://www.indivisible.org/.
RISE AND RESIST, a direct action group made up of both new and experienced activists committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties, will be joining this event to provide information on how you can become involved in the Resistance. Representatives from Immigration, Elections, and Actions and Recruitment groups will be on hand.
https://www.riseandresist.org/
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