Although closely affiliated with the greater New York experimental scene he has been part of for decades, the guitarist Marc Ribot has always been a wanderer finding his way into new situations throughout his admirably peripatetic career. In recent years he has led the skronky trio Ceramic Dog, engaged in protest songs, and devoted time to playing the tricky new music of his old collaborator John Zorn.
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Porträt-Collage mit MOPCUT, Marc Ribot und MC Dälek
it’s easy to forget the way he fortified and accented some of the greatest and occasionally most twisted American roots music of our time, touring and recording with greats like Wilson Pickett, Rufus Thomas, Brother Jack McDuff, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.
Those roots have always extended into his more experimental endeavors, but earlier this year he released the first song-driven album of his career, “Map of a Blue City”. Ribot has never displayed greater control and nuance with his voice, imparting a charming intimacy and looseness that adds more punch and authentic feeling to his lyrics – as well as a treatment of the Carter Family tune and an original setting of an Allen Ginsberg poem. He still rips off some lacerating solos, reclaiming his old raunch on the sultry “Say My Name”, a stark soul-blues where his falsetto transmits pure vulnerability, while “Daddy’s Trip to Brazil” is a travelogue of a crank set to bossa nova.
22:30
- Marc Ribot: “Map of a Blue City”
- (US)
- German premiere
Line-up
- Marc Ribot – guitar, vocice
23:30
- MOPCUT feat. MC Dälek: “Ryok”
- (AT, FR, US)
- German premiere
French guitarist Julien Desprez, Berlin-based American vocalist Audrey Chen and Austrian drummer Lukas König created a wildly lurching world of mayhem when they joined forces as MOPCUT, one of the most visceral units in improvised music. Beginning with jarring off-kilter funk grooves, the trio wields noise and abrasive textures like paint, splattering them across that thrashing rhythmic foundation.
While König unleashes hurtling beats, Chen performs double duty, loosely filling in the cracks with viscous electronics and unwieldy synthetic bass spams while transforming her voice into the ultimate noisemaker; over the course of a piece she deploys tactile vocal fry, splitting tones into rapidly flowing crackles, upper registers cries and whoops, and mind-warping glossolalia.
Not to be outdone, Desprez – a member of the ferocious collective Abacaxi and frequent collaborator of trumpeter Rob Mazurek and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, whom he joins on Sunday night as part of Fire! Orchestra – deploys his electric guitar as an unhinged sound generator. His feet dance across a complex array of effect pedals, endlessly transforming and altering the acidic tones he coaxes from his instrument. Earlier this year the trio released its second album “Ryok”, a quicksilver assault that benefits from vocal cameos from Jazzfest Berlin veteran Moor Moother and the stern-voiced American rapper MC Dälek, who will join MOPCUT’s roof-raising performance tonight.
Line-up
- Lukas König – drums, synthesizer, voice
- Audrey Chen – voice, analog electronics
- Julien Desprez – electric guitar
- Will Brooks aka MC Dälek – voice, electronics
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Dates
November 2025
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