Eclectic guitarist
Marc Ribot has recorded a wide variety of music over his career, working with
Elvis Costello and on
Tom Waits' Rain Dogs. He has also recorded compositions for classical guitar by Haiti's
Franz Casseus, a friend of his parents, and has participated actively in New York City's downtown
avant-garde music scene for some time, most notably as a member of
the Lounge Lizards.
Ribot's solo albums include Rootless Cosmopolitans and Requiem for What's His Name; later
Ribot worked with his
avant-garde jazz-rock fusion band,
Shrek, whose eponymous debut was released in 1994. With a new group,
Los Cubanos Postizos, he also issued The Prosthetic Cubans in 1998; Muy Divertido followed two years later. Additionally,
Ribot played a major part in initiating
the Radical New Jewish Culture Festival in Germany and New York City. Since that time, he has released a bevy of recordings including, among others, Muy Divertido! in 2000, Scelsi Morning in 2003, Asmodeus: The Book of Angels, Vol. 7 in 2007, and Party Intellectuals in 2008. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide