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Released
  
1992

Release date
  
1992

Label
  
Les Disques du Crepuscule

Length
  
50:51

Producer
  
Marc Ribot

Genre
  
Experimental music

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Requiem for What's His Name (1992)
  
Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus (1993)

Artists
  
Marc Ribot, Marc Ribot & Rootless Cosmopolitans

Similar
  
Marc Ribot albums, Experimental music albums

Requiem for What's His Name is the second album by Marc Ribot & The Rootless Comopolitans. It was released on the Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule in 1992. It was recorded in New York City, except "Commit a Crime" which was recorded live at Desi Stadtteilzentrum in Nuremberg, Germany.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Beatty awarded the album 4 stars stating "On his second release as a bandleader, guitarist Marc Ribot is joined by players familiar from his gigs as a hired sideman, including saxophonist Roy Nathanson of the Lounge Lizards and the Jazz Passengers and multi-reed player Ralph Carney from Tom Waits' touring band. Though less swinging and fresh than 1990's Rootless Cosmopolitans, this album's original compositions and renditions of Duke Ellington and Howlin' Wolf tunes still leave plenty of room for Ribot's discordant guitar stylings. Available in the U.S. only as an expensive import. ".

Track listing

All compositions are by Marc Ribot, except where indicated otherwise.

  1. "Requiem for What's His Name" – 4:29
  2. "Disposable Head" – 2:50
  3. "Clever White Youths" – 4:30
  4. "First Time Every Time" – 2:01
  5. "Motherless Child" (Anonymous) – 1:06
  6. "New" – 4:18
  7. "Reveille" – 1:08
  8. "Lamonte's Nightmare" (Anthony Coleman) – 5:56
  9. "March" – 2:00
  10. "Pony" (Ribot, Coleman) – 2:14
  11. "Yo, I Killed Your God" – 2:39
  12. "Commit A Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 3:19
  13. "Caravan" (Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:48
  14. "Blues" – 3:11
  15. "1 Adolph 12" (Ribot, Jones) – 6:57

Personnel

  • Marc Ribot – guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, piano, drum sequencing
  • Wilbo Wright (1, 2, 7–8, 11, 13) – detuned guitar (on (1)), bass
  • Roy Nathanson (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 15) – soprano, chermia, alto, tenor
  • Ralph Carney (1–4, 6–9, 11–12, 14) – alto, sona, tenor, clarinet, assorted duck calls
  • Anthony Coleman (1–3, 6–8, 10–14) – pump organ, sampler, piano, organ
  • Simeon Cain (1–4, 6–9, 11, 13, 15) – drums, percussion, drum overdubs
  • Syd Straw (3, 10) – background vocals, vocals
  • Zeena Parkins (6) – electric harp
  • Brad Jones (6, 15) – bass
  • Greg Jones (12, 14) – bass
  • Rock Savage (12, 14) – drums
  • J.D. Parran (15) – clarinet

    • Songs

    1Requiem for What's-His-Name4:30
    2Disposable Head2:51
    3Clever White Youths4:31

    References

    Requiem for What's His Name Wikipedia
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