Often, watching several great musicians play together and do great things, it has occurred to me that each of them should also give solo concerts so that the audience can enjoy the performance of the individual in detail. Music created through collective work is similar to food, such as a salad, in which each of the added components could also be enjoyed on its own. Or with colors, the possibilities of combinations are unlimited, but sometimes only one is enough to achieve an even more impressive effect on the audience, if it happens at the right time and place, where people are ready for it and the usual need for contrasts is simply excluded. You could also observe the structure of the canvas, still untouched by the paint brush, up close and think about how the threads that make it up came into being, how they split into fibers and spread out in all directions.
With a plus sign
At other times, one of the musicians takes center stage, leaving the others in the background. For example, in our own modern folk bands The New Year’s Orchestra or Raxtu raxti on the drums is Artis Orubs, and a large part of the audience, who focus their attention on the soloists Juri Kaukulis and Marta Kristiānas Kalniņu in front of the stage, don’t even realize that it all wouldn’t sound like it would with Artis Orubs on drums. But how would he sound on his own? This year, Artis Orubs has started to give solo concerts, in which he makes do with only a classical drum set, and the performances have been excellent. Bassist Stanislavs Yudins, who worked for many years as an invited musician with double bass or bass guitar, suddenly shone, creating a masterpiece in 2019 – a plate Op. 2 – with Country girl participant Asnati Rancani. On the other hand, the young and talented Latvian singer Keitija Bārbale has not yet found a way to “not color over” the peculiarities of her vocal performance by arranging songs together with other musicians, so she still sounds best when performing alone.
One could cite countless more examples of how the interplay or chemistry between musicians can affect the result with a plus or minus sign, but it’s time to focus on a specific artist whose work has caused these reflections. Friday, July 21, in the culture room Hansa platform Guitar legend Mark Ribo from USA will visit Riga with his first and only concert in Latvia. During his early career as a session or guest musician on Tom Waits’ 1985 album Rain Dogs in the record, he has managed to find a new musical direction for the singer known to every listener, the magazine notes Rolling Stone. Marc Ribault’s guitar can also be heard on many of the following Tom Waits albums: Franks Wild Years (1987), Big Time (1988), Mule Variations (1999), Real Gone (2004), Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) and Bad as Me (2011).
Mark Ribot has been called upon by veterans Robert Plant, Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello, David Sylvian, John Zorn and Elton John, and jazz fusion group Medeski Martin & Woodand the blues rock duo that reached the peak of pop music The Black Keyssinger Norah Jones and Mike Patton, best known as a rock band Faith No More soloist.
No effects pedals
Marc Ribault was born in 1953 in New Jersey and already in his teens he played guitar in many bands while simultaneously studying with the Haitian guitarist and composer Franc Casseus. It is believed that it is not desirable for people who are left-handed to learn to do things with their right hand that would be better for them with their left, because it can traumatize them mentally, and nowadays they try to respect this; but everyone is affected differently by such and other situations of initial discomfort – some can ruin their future life forever, but for some such difficulties are beneficial, allowing them to develop their unique or individual style, which no one else in the world has. The author of these same lines as a child was forced to learn to write with his right hand, “as it should be”, and as a result he can do it with both. A small thing, but useful if for some reason the right hand is suddenly busy with something else very important. In other cases, it can even change history. Let’s remember the guitarists Diego Reinhardt, who was paralyzed in a couple of fingers so important for playing the guitar strings, but he played like a god, and Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath, who had his fingertips cut off while working in a metalworking factory as a young man. In 1978, Mark Ribault moved to New York, where he played in the soul/punk band Realtones and other lineups.
In spite of the long and varied list of cooperation partners, Mark Ribot also performs solo concerts, moreover, with an acoustic guitar, sometimes without using any effects pedal. It was admired by a newspaper in a review after a recent concert in London The Financial Times. Guitarists today usually use so many different technical possibilities that they can achieve any sounds and place parts over each other and sound like a whole orchestra, but if you remove all that, it is possible to follow in much more detail what the musician does with his fingers, guided by his brain and inner feelings, addressing the audience in a very intimate atmosphere, even if the concert takes place in a large hall and with a powerful sound system.
Composer, master of classical and flamenco guitar playing Anna Garano will also travel to Riga with Mark Ribo to introduce the concert of her spouse and musical partner. Anna received her academic education not only in playing an instrument, but also in musicology and music history. She has been an active participant in Italian music life for several decades. Anna’s delicate, sometimes joyful, sometimes contemplative compositions and folk music arrangements are a space where listeners are happy to meet the artist and establish lasting relationships.
Marks Ribo
Hansa platform 21.VII at 20
Tickets Ticket paradises in the network EUR 35
2023-07-20 22:32:07
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