The US guitarist Marc Ribot loves provocation. On his new albums "YRU Still Here" with his band Ceramic Dog and "Songs Of Resistance 1942-2018" with an illustrious crowd of guests he directed his anger against political grievances in the USA. Marc Ribot is an edgy guy. At the end of the eighties he played in the jazz bands The Lounge Lizards and Jazz Passengers and lent his woodcutter guitar playing to Tom Waits and Elvis Costello. His clash of punk and jazz resembled crashes without survivors. Patience is not one of his virtues. None of his own bands have lasted for more than two albums. No matter whether it was the Rootless Cosmopolitans, Shrek or the extremely successful Cubanos Postizos or whether he commuted between extremes like John Zorn or Robert Plant, Ribot was always on his mind at the next construction site.
Construction sites always mean responsibility. In order to reach more people, he founded the rock band Ceramic Dog, in which he also acts as a singer. His texts have it in them, they deal with everyday racism, the failure of politics and the creative power of the individual. Ceramic Dog's third album, "YRU Still Here", forms an inseparable unity with the solo work "Songs Of Resistance", which was released shortly afterwards. "YRU Still Here" consists of own songs, the second album summarizes protest songs from World War II until today. Like an axe, Ribot beats the open flanks of a global society that is moving ever further to the right. "In autumn 2016 Ceramic Dog had already finished an album", Ribot remembers. "After the November elections, we were shocked. It didn't seem like the right time anymore to release a CD about my romantic catastrophes..."
