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Marc Ribot - Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus [New Vinyl LP]

Artist: Marc Ribot

Title: Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Folk

UPC: 881626573013

Release Date: 2021

Record Label: Knockwurst Records

Album Tracks

1. Simbi
2. Rara
3. Prelude #2
4. Haitian Suite: Petro
5. Haitian Suite: Yanvalloux
6. Haitian Suite: Mascaron
7. Haitian Suite: Coumbite (Merci Bon Dieu)
8. Prelude #1
9. Merengue
10. Improvisation
11. Chanson
12. Congo
13. Dance (On Sunday)
14. Serenade Lointaine
15. Valse
16. Untitled
17. Romance
18. Dance of the Hounsies
19. Romance 1978
20. Meringue Frangeul [Bonus Track]
21. Sobo [Bonus Track]
22. Nan Guinan [Bonus Track]

Long before Marc Ribot made a name for himself as a pioneering force in NYC's downtown music scene, and as guitarist for luminaries like Tom Waits, Wilson Pickett and The Lounge Lizards, he began his guitar studies as a teenager with close family friend, the Father of Haitian classical guitar, Frantz Casséus. In 1946, Frantz came to NYC from his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti with the ambition to compose a distinctly Haitian classical guitar music, to fuse the European classical tradition with Haitian folk elements as Heitor Villa-Lobos had done with his native Brazil's and as Béla Bartók had done with Hungarian folk songs. His three recordings, Haitian Folks Songs (1953), Haitian Dances (1954) and Haitiana (1969) were released on Folkway Recordings (and since reissued by Smithsonian Folkways) and his compositions have been covered by artists worldwide including the song "Merci bon dieu" by Harry Belafonte. In effort to preserve Frantz's musical legacy, Marc edited a collection of Casseus' solo guitar compositions, and performed those same pieces on his 1993 album "Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus". This remastered and expanded edition, with three additional bonus tracks recorded in 2020, marks the first time Marc's interpretations of this work is available on vinyl. Also available again on CD