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Sam Phillips Fan Dance
Marc Ribot demonstrates yet again his astonishing skills as both a solo artist and an accompanist. With his new album, Saints, Ribot bypasses the buoyant Afro-Caribbean flavors of his discs with Los Cubanos Postizos in favor of thorny abstraction. It's a challenging, yet beautiful solo-guitar disc imbued with the spirit of free-form improvisers such as Derek Bailey anti saxophonist Albert Ayler. (Two Ayler compositions bookend the set.) The playing here brings to mind Louis Armstrong's famous comment that the newfangled bebop style sounded like "Chinese music." Ribot's music is no more Chinese than Dizzy Gillespie's was, but there's definitely something Eastern about the way ...