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Rootless Cosmopolitans

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Released
  
1990

Producer
  
Arthur Moorehead

Release date
  
1990

Genre
  
Experimental music

Length
  
46:27

Artist
  
Marc Ribot

Label
  
Island Records

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Recorded
  
Sound On Sound Recording, New York City

Rootless Cosmopolitans (1990)
  
Requiem for What's His Name (1992)

Similar
  
Marc Ribot albums, Experimental music albums

Rootless Cosmopolitans is the debut album by Marc Ribot released on Island Records in 1990. It was recorded in New York City at Sound on Sound Recording except "I Should Care", which was recorded at Harold Desau, and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", recorded on Port-A-Studio.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 3 stars stating "There is a decent amount of enjoyable music here, but it's hit and miss, very much a grab-bag affair. All of the musicians involved went on to do finer work later in their careers, though, so what value Rootless Cosmopolitans retains tends toward the historical. ".

Track listing

  1. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 1:17
  2. "Shortly After Takeoff" (Marc Ribot) – 4:14
  3. "The Wind Cries Mary" (Jimi Hendrix) – 5:01
  4. "Friendly Ghosts" (Ribot) – 5:20
  5. "The Cocktail Party" (Brad Jones, Ribot, Richie Schwarz) – 4:59
  6. "New Sad" (Ribot) – 3:01
  7. A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (Ribot) – 1:13
  8. "Beak Lunch Manifesto" (Jones, Ribot) – 6:31
  9. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison) – 1:57
  10. "Nature Abhors a Vacuum Cleaner" (Ribot) – 4:31
  11. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 4:40
  12. "Have a Nice Day" (Ribot) – 3:43
  • Track 12 does not appear on the original LP pressing.

    • Personnel

  • Marc Ribot – guitars, harmonica, vocal
  • Don Byron (2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12) – bass clarinet, clarinet, turkey calls
  • Anthony Coleman (2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12) – keyboards, piano, organ, sampler
  • Melvin Gibbs (2, 3, 6) – bass, guitar
  • Richie Schwarz (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) – drums, sampled percussion
  • Michael Blair (3, 5) – drums, backwards vocal
  • Ralph Carney (3) – sona
  • Arto Lindsay (3, 8) – guitar
  • Brad Jones (4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) – bass, guitar on (11)
  • Curtis Fowlkes (5, 10) – trombone
  • Roy Nathanson (5, 8, 10, 12) – saxophone
  • David Sardi (10) – guitar

    • Songs

    1I Should Care1:21
    2Shortly After Takeoff4:13
    3The Wind Cries Mary5:04

    References

    Rootless Cosmopolitans Wikipedia
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