Party Intellectuals

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Party Intellectuals
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Studio album by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Released 24 June 2008
Recorded October 2007
Genre Rock, jazz
Label Pi Recordings
Producer Joel Hamilton
Marc Ribot chronology
Exercises in Futility
(2008) Exercises in Futility2008		Party Intellectuals
(2008)		 Silent Movies
(2010) Silent Movies2010

Party Intellectuals is the debut album by jazz fusion trio Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog. It was produced by Joel Hamilton and released June 24, 2008 on Pi Recordings.

Jazz fusion music genre

Jazz fusion is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll.

Marc Ribot American musician

Marc Ribot is an American guitarist and composer.

Joel Hamilton is a Brooklyn-based record producer, engineer and musician. Joel performs as a musician with the band Book of Knots. He is also a producer and engineer at Studio G in Brooklyn, New York.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4½ stars out of 5, stating, "Although Ribot has always displayed a great sense of humor, it's on full display here in a way it hasn't really been before. Party Intellectuals is easily Ribot's most fun album to date and one of his best". [1]

PopMatters' Zeth Lundy rated the album 7 out of 10, saying,

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet.

Ceramic Dog is Ribot's first true rock band to call his own, but it’s also an experiment in accessible dissonance—a rock band that spikes the rudimentary nature of the form with aggressive improvisation and noodly turbulence ... The more challenging tracks on Party Intellectuals are the epic mood pieces that freak out in frame-by-frame slow motion ... While a lot of the tracks on Party Intellectuals delight in ripping conventions apart (or, in the case of those epic tracks, deliriously attempt to discover some new ones), most also allow for some truly batshit crazy guitar solos by Ribot. [2]

Track listing

All compositions are by Marc Ribot, except where noted.

  1. "Break On Through" (John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison) – 3:44
  2. "Party Intellectuals" (Shahzad Ismaily, Ribot, Ches Smith) – 5:50
  3. "Todo el Mundo es Kitsch" – 5:11
  4. "When We Were Young and We Were Freaks" (Emilio Cubierto, Ismaily, Ribot, Smith) – 8:18
  5. "Digital Handshake" (Ismaily, Ribot, Smith, Alessandro Stefana) – 10:15
  6. "Bateau" – 4:15
  7. "For Malena" – 3:20
  8. "Pinch" (Ismaily, Ribot, Smith) – 4:43
  9. "Girlfriend" (Ismaily, Ribot, Smith) – 3:35
  10. "Midost" – 10:04
  11. "Shsh Shsh" (Ismaily, Ribot, Jenni Quilter) – 5:49
  12. "Never Better" – 3:29

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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References

  1. 1 2 Westergaard, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 4, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Lundy, Z. Popmatters review June 23, 2008
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