Marc Ribot

Requiem For What's-His-Name

Marc Ribot's 1992 release "Requiem For What's-His-Name" features The Rootless
Cosmopolitans. Beautifully arranged pieces of melodic movements, punk jazz, and pure avant-garde chaos, Ribot ungulates complicated rhythms and dense layers of instrumentation that keeps you listening again and again, however hilarious some of the musical ideas are. There's even a classic Ribot rendition of a timeless standard, Caravan.

A traveling circus of freakishly virtuosic, grungy, filth mongrels, the Rootless Cosmopolitans complicate the sound of this record with undeniable hell-born jazz antics in the best ways possible.

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

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