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Yo! I Killed Your God (1999)
Exercises In Inexplicable Extremes

I don’t post a lot of the noisier stuff I sometimes listen to, since there never seems to be much call for it. But, I thought I’d offer up this 1999 release from guitarist extraordinaire, Marc Ribot – best known as stringman to the stars (Costello, Burnett, Plant & Krauss, Krall… too many to name, really). I first turned onto him via his work with Tom Waits in the mid-80s, then through John Zorn’s downtown avant-ramblings, but his solo work is also an intriguing diversion, as he’s bound to indulge in everything from sheer noise making to obtuse tinkering to exercises in inexplicable extremes. I admit, myself, that some of his stuff is tough to endure, but… life’s too short to quibble, and you only go around once in life, so you’ve gotta grab for all the gusto you ca… wait, where have I heard that before? If Yo! I Killed Your God is too chaotic for your sensibilities (and you won’t be alone), then at least you can credit this post with pointing you to his two outstanding albums of raw, instrumental Cuban garage dance music, as Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans), HERE. Check out Ribot’s work on John Zorn Plays The Music Of Ennio Morricone, HERE. NOTE: Nothing on this LP really sounds the same, so the streaming player should probably be considered misleading. Find Yo! at Amazon, HERE.

I Fall To Pieces (0:47)
Yo! I Killed Your God (2:58)
Human Sacrifice (10:03)
The Wind Cries Mary (6:37)
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (5:35)
Fourth World (8:18)
Requiem For What’s His Name (5:10)
Somebody’s Walkin’ In My House (3:10)
Clever White Youths With Attitude (2:31)
Expressionless (1:50)
Jamon Con Yucca (4:12)
Pulse (8:09)
Change Has Come (9:07)
Mon Petit Punk (4:17)