MARC RIBOT — Asmodeus: Book of Angels, Volume 7 (review)

MARC RIBOT — Asmodeus: Book of Angels, Volume 7 album cover Album · 2007 · Jazz Related Improv/Composition Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
snobb
Down town guitarist Marc Ribot's leading power trio plays heavy improvs based on Hasidic/klezmer tunes from John Zorn's second Book Of Angels.

Trevor Dunn is regular Zorn-related projects collaborator,former bassist of Faith No More and Mr.Bungle and current member of Zorn's Moonchild Trio. Legendary drummer Grant Calvin Weston played with Ornette Coleman Prime Time,then - with James "Blood" Ulmer and toured with Medeski Martin and Wood.But even having extremely competent rhythm section, this album is openly guitarist hour of glory.

Marc Ribot plays heavy angular guitar improvs filling all the space with almost heavy metal energy and heaviness. Compositionally material is very melodic,so even if music is heavy based on guitar improvs with tough rhythm pulsation on the back, collection of quite short compositions are various and often melodic.Technically Ribot's guitar sounds somewhere in a wide range between Hendrix and Sharrock, covering territories between psychedelic blues-based rock jamming and hardcore jazz improvs.

Noisy but melodic and quite easy accessible guitar improvs album,played by excellent trio. Great possibility for Ribot to show his guitar abilities combined with Zorn's catchy compositions material.
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