{"title":"Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hope-7","title":"Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy May 2020, Marc Ribot had begun to find being depressed depressing. The guitarist who's performed with Tom Waits, Jack McDuff, Diana Krall and countless others and his Ceramic Dog trio - bassist\/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith - hadn't played for months. So, all involved decided to head to Ismaily's Figure 8 Recording studio in Brooklyn to record what would become \u003ci\u003eHope\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band, which has been releasing music since 2008, devised an order of operations to enter the studio, wash their hands and set up at a safe remove. Ribot, Ismaily and Smith never actually saw each during the sessions because of the safeguards; they were working to keep the bassist's \"fucked up\" lungs from compromising his health. But because of Ismaily's technical facility, they all \"heard each other better than ever,\" Ribot said. With precautions in place, the trio set about capturing eight originals that reflect the era's uncertainty and cap it with a reimagining of Donovan's \"Wear Your Love Like Heaven,\" where the trio turns the idealistic psych-folk effort into a ruminative, spoken-word piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yellowbird","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50383971778891,"sku":"1124683","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fa70870f-001d-4431-b46f-46d5f7d9115b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726281101"},{"product_id":"connection-5","title":"Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003eConnection is Ceramic Dog's 5th recording (or 6th, if one counts the Bandcamp digital only EP \"What I Did On My Long Vacation\", or 7th including the Deerhoof collaboration).  It's also their best...a work that doesn't resolve the tension between Ceramic Dog's (not-so-post) punk\/new music\/free jazz points of departure and the pop ambitions they've always buried (never too far) beneath the surface... so much as push to the breaking point ...Check out the post-apocalyptic landscape of \"Subsidiary\", the anthemic manifesto \"We Are Soldiers in the Army of Love\", or the unhinged ranting of \"Heart Attack\": all perfect for slam-dancing on a minefield (our current pop moment?). Fans of minimalist polytonal disco will surely appreciate the indescribable \"No Name\". And if multiple time signatures are your bag: the song \"Connection\" has what you need. \"That's Entertainment\" devours\/deconstructs the Hollywood standard's psychotic cliches, while winking at the Gang of Four (see \"Entertainment\") and the \"gang of four\" (Madame Mao Tse Tung et al.).  But it's the tune Ecstasy--whose Boogaloo inflected groove recalls Ribot's earlier work with the Cubanos Postizos-- that states the band's ethic in starkest terms: \"I don't want you to give me nothing...unless you give me...ecstasy.\" After 18 years of collective life on the road\/in this world...it seems that's the only currency Ceramic Dog still accepts. And on \"Connection\", they gamble with\/for it like there's no tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yellowbird","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50490517061963,"sku":"2024708","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50490516898123,"sku":"2024705","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_ad7c5d90_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727665019"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/marc-ribots-ceramic-dog-1.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}