''Shrek'' is a 1994 album by
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (;
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, Rock music, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notab ...
recorded and released by the Japanese
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label in 1994.
Recording
The album was recorded in New York City at Low Blood Studios. Ribot stated "I made ''Shrek'', which was finally a hit. It was the most purely compositional record I had made. It’s quasi-unlistenable. ... I never knew how many ''Shrek'' fans there were till I did Cubanos. They’re coming out of the woodwork."
Reception
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awarded the album 3 stars with reviewer Sean Cooper stating, "The group's debut shifts restlessly among animated jazz, rock, punk, and warped blues themes, filling the inevitable cracks with instrumental textures, minimal vignettes, and formless noise, similar in some respects to John Zorn's Naked City (though with considerably more focus...hell, with focus period!). The group is joined on three tracks by sampler collage artist David Shea. ".
[Cooper, S.]
Allmusic Review
accessed , 2011
In
JazzTimes
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Coverage
After a decade ...
Tom Terrell said "''Shrek'' is firmly in the avant garde camp. Over ten tracks, Ribot and Shrek the band cause wreck, eschewing identifiably standard song structures for a blurry continuum of multi-layered sounds, skewed rhythms and extraterrestrial transmissions. An intense exercise in wild gravity, Shrek careens madly from the pointillistic Frippertronics of 'Forth World' to the grim claustrophobia of 'Romance.' Well worth the listen-just don't look for a melody".
[Terrelll, T]
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Track listing
Personnel
*Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (;
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, Rock music, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notab ...
– guitars, banjo, Eb horn, drums, pump organ
* Chris Wood – guitar on all tracks except "Prelude" and "Half Ass Whole"
*David Shea – sampler on "Spigot", "Half Ass Whole" and "Human Sacrifice"
*Sebastian Steinberg
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– bass on all tracks except "Prelude" and "Half Ass Whole"
* Jim Pugliese – drums on all tracks except "Prelude" and "Half Ass Whole"
*Christine Bard – drums on all tracks except "Prelude", "Spigot" and "Half Ass Whole"
* Marc Anthony Thompson – autoharp on "Half Ass Whole"
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1994 albums
Marc Ribot albums
Avant Records albums