SILENT MOVIES

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.