{"title":"Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"deerhoof-ceramic-dog-split-7","title":"Deerhoof \/ Ceramic Dog - Split 7″","description":"\u003cp\u003eA split 7″ deserves a split write-up. So, Northern Spy asked Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and Ceramic Dog’s Marc Ribot to write something about this record. Turns out there’s some mutual respect here. It’d be weird if there wasn’t. This is a Record Store Day vinyl release and will only be available at fine music retailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Deerhoof has been making singles where we give instrumental tracks from our records to singers we like. We have no idea what they’ll sing. On tour, we were having a post-show ice cream at Mashti Malones in LA and one of Marc Ribot’s records came on and we realized we have to get him to do one. Every Deerhoof member had already had their favorite from Ribot’s discography since before we ever met each other. Our connection was Ches Smith who was the singer in our favorite hardcore band but moonlighted as a fusion drummer. We toured with Ches\/Shahzad\/Ribot’s band Ceramic Dog and found their sense of humor to be unacceptable. Then i produced Ceramic Dog’s next record. and after that we sent Ribot the instrumental track for one of our songs and before long i had the single you are looking at except that i had to mix it first lest it sound unmixed. Long live Marc Ribot.”\u003c\/em\u003e – Greg Saunier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Ches was tight with the Deerhoof people from when he lived on the West Coast , and he and Shahzad turned me on to some of their CD’s. I thought – wow, these people are really crazy (plus they not only dig a lot of the same 70’s – 80’s no wave stuff I like, they’ve actually taken it several steps further). Then we did some W coast tour dates together – and it all turned out to be true: they were crazy and great. We dug it so much, we asked Greg to produce our last CD. Long live Deerhoof!”\u003c\/em\u003e – Marc Ribot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracks\u003cbr\u003eSIDE A: Who Sleeps, Only Dreams (Deerhoof with special guest Marc Ribot)\u003cbr\u003eSIDE B: Hide With Me (Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy Records","offers":[{"title":"MP3 Download","offer_id":44667161346271,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-12-at-1.26.57-PM.png?v=1703788919"},{"product_id":"ceramic-dog-your-turn","title":"Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Your Turn","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4244495580\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcribotsceramicdog.bandcamp.com\/album\/your-turn-2\"\u003eYour Turn by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond records are a bitch (or, if “bitch” is too offensive,”notoriously hard to nail down,” No?) We thought about this one for 2 years – and even tried to make it a few times. Finally we got it right – meaning, we got it to sound wrong exactly like us.If you listen closely, you can hear the rage, hope, disappointment, ritual excess, love and anarchy that were in our personal and collective airspace during those years. There were (and – we hope – will continue to be) several kinds of riots going on (“Lies My Body Told Me,” “Bread and Roses”). And yes, the CD is “political,” (see “Avanti Popolo,” “Ain’t Gonna Let Them Turn Me ‘Round”). But what fun is raging against the machine if you can’t also rage against the bar line and the tonal system (“Take Five,” “Ritual Slaughter” “Your Turn”)? The astute listener will note our wry comment on the contradictions of producing a recording during the collapse of the industry which once paid for recordings to be produced (“We Are the Professionals,” “Masters of the Internet” and the attached manifesto). The very astute listener with really expensive headphones may hear the water pipes in the basement on Rivington and Allen where we recorded about half the tracks (the guitar amp isolation booth looked a lot like a bathroom). Those searching for rigorously applied formal constraints may have to wait. Ceramic Dogs just wanna have fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePS: We had a lot of help from our friends – Greg Saunier, JD Foster, Eszter Ballint, Andy Taub, Ryan Kelly, Francois Lardeau, and, last but not least, Mary Ho.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial Guest Artists:\u003cbr\u003e\n*Eszter Balint: vocals (1, 6, 10); melodica (9); organ (10); violin (13)\u003cbr\u003e\n*Arto Lindsay: guitar (10)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy Records","offers":[{"title":"CD + Digital","offer_id":44667163803871,"sku":"CD-NS-038","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"FLAC Download","offer_id":44667163771103,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3 Download","offer_id":44667163738335,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/cover12-e1646851687801.jpg?v=1703789051"},{"product_id":"yru-still-here","title":"Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - YRU Still Here?","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3754020197\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcribot.bandcamp.com\/album\/yru-still-here-2\"\u003eYRU Still Here? by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I got a right to say FUCK YOU!!!” is how the new album from veteran guitarist Marc Ribot’s trio Ceramic Dog starts off, with Ribot howling in anger at corruption, tyranny, life in general, and nothing in particular. If you’ve got a serious case of outrage fatigue, Ceramic Dog’s explosive cocktail of balls-to-the-wall abandon, chameleonic disregard for style constraints, political commentary, and absurdist humor is just the shot in the ass (or kick in the arm?) you might need. In fact, Ceramic Dog’s new album — whose title:YRU Still Here? is directed in equal parts at themselves, the commander in chief, and the listening public -- arrives just in time to remind us that now is a moment when anger is not only necessary, and unavoidable, but also good for houseplants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYRU Still Here? careens from punk to funk to flamenco to surf to rock ‘n roll — all turned on their heads and smudged, allowing us to imagine an alternate history where punk icons Jello Biafra and Ian MacKaye fronted no-wave lounge bands on alternate Tuesdays at the Teaneck New Jersey Holiday Inn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks in no small part to the fire, brimstone, and dextrous facility summoned by kindred spirits Shahzad Ismaily (Secret Chiefs 3, Will Oldham) on bass and drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant), YRU Still Here? comes to the table armed with more than just sloganeering rhetoric. Alongside his monumental career forging his peerless guitar style with the likes of Tom Waits, John Zorn, the Lounge Lizards, etc, Ribot has also worked for decades as a tenant union, labor, and artist rights activist, where he mastered the agit-prop skills used to such dazzling effect on sure-fire hits such as “Fuck La Migra” and “Muslim\/Jewish Resistance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Pennsylvania 6 6666\" documents Shahzad’s experiences growing up Muslim and Outrageous in Danville Pennsylvania, where “all the children are insane”: rendering these lamentable memories in a cool vaguely Latinoid jazz style all their own (while providing guffaws for Satanists and Glenn Miller fans)!!! By way of explanation, Ribot comments: “Yes, we too are subject to the post-modern condition, although we actually see it as a kind of psoriasis.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs much as it is a rallying cry, though, YRU Still Here? also further consecrates Ribot’s 10 years of music making with Ismaily and Smith. Referring to them as his “musical conscience” and to the band as a “family...although not always in a good way”. Ribot comments wryly: “Even after all the playing I’ve done, there’s something about this group that still manages to shock me.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy Records","offers":[{"title":"LP + Digital","offer_id":44667173961951,"sku":"LP-NS-098","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD + Digital","offer_id":44667173994719,"sku":"CD-NS-098","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"WAV Download","offer_id":44667174060255,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3 Download","offer_id":44667174027487,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/a4274010494_10.jpg?v=1703789429"},{"product_id":"hope","title":"Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Hope","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1270397148\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcribot.bandcamp.com\/album\/hope\"\u003eHope by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen these recording sessions began in the last week of May 2020, I hadn’t left my house to go anywhere other than the grocery store in over two months. I hadn’t taken a cab or subway. I’d lost several friends to COVID-19, and was afraid I’d also lose more thanks to the non-response of our would-be dictator\/“president”, whose deliberate embrace of untruth fed tens of thousands of lives to the pandemic, and also reduced what little hope was left for avoiding global warming catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hadn’t seen my partner since February (our plans to fly to each other’s countries shut down) and it would be July before we finally got together. Our difficulties were nothing compared with others. When me and fellow Ceramic Dogs Ches and Shahzad figured out a way to record, we entered the studio separately, sat in separate, isolated rooms from which we couldn’t see each other, communicating through mics and headphones. We were careful to wash our hands: one of us has respiratory issues, so fuck-ups could’ve been bad. We wound up with two record’s worth of material, some released on Bandcamp in October on the EP What I Did on My Long Vacation, and the majority of the music here on this full CD-length recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf\/when people look back on these times, maybe they’ll seem\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e unreal... foreign, alien: the way I, as a child in the 1960’s, looked at the faded footage of the 1930’s as impossibly ancient, even though the family members who had survived those newsreels sat next to me at breakfast. In fact, my 9 year old self was closer to the burning of the Reichstag\u003cbr\u003e\nthan we are now to the release of Nevermind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyway, when we went into the studio, I thought we’d come up with something that spoke to our times… a message in a bottle to our equally shipwrecked (imaginary) listeners. But once we started, it was so much fun to jam that we forgot the disasters outside. So instead, we “spoke” to each other. And to other times that we couldn’t yet see: like the day, 5 months later, when people all over Brooklyn would dance in the streets for joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s almost December now. Things are shutting down again, and I’m quarantined in Europe writing liner notes for a record that will be released in the new year--once more, speaking to another time… perhaps a future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM Ribot (Nov 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy Records","offers":[{"title":"2 x LP \"Warp Speed\" Edition","offer_id":44667187003615,"sku":"MLP-NS-139","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2 x LP Standard Black Edition","offer_id":44667187036383,"sku":"LP-NS-139","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD + Digital","offer_id":44667187069151,"sku":"CD-NS-139","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC Download","offer_id":44667187101919,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3 Download","offer_id":44667187134687,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/Hope-scaled-e1646414141614.jpg?v=1703789861"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.northern-spy.com\/collections\/marc-ribots-ceramic-dog.oembed","provider":"Northern Spy Label Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}