Marc Ribot - Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Long before Marc Ribot made a name for himself as a pioneering force in NYC's downtown music scene, and as guitarist for luminaries like Tom Waits, Wilson Pickett and The Lounge Lizards, he began his guitar studies as a teenager with close family friend, the Father of Haitian classical guitar, Frantz Casséus. In 1946, Frantz came to NYC from his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti with the ambition to compose a distinctly Haitian classical guitar music, to fuse the European classical tradition with Haitian folk elements as Heitor Villa-Lobos had done with his native Brazil's and as Béla Bartók had done with Hungarian folk songs. His three recordings, Haitian Folks Songs (1953), Haitian Dances (1954) and Haitiana (1969) were released on Folkway Recordings (and since reissued by Smithsonian Folkways) and his compositions have been covered by artists worldwide including the song InchMerci bon dieuInch by Harry Belafonte.In effort to preserve Frantz's musical legacy, Marc edited a collection of Casseus' solo guitar compositions, and performed those same pieces on his 1993 album InchMarc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz CasseusInch. This remastered and expanded edition, with three additional bonus tracks recorded in 2020, marks the first time Marc's interpretations of this work is available on vinyl. Also available again on CD Album Tracks 1. Simbi 2. Rara 3. Prelude #2 4. Haitian Suite Petro 5. Haitian Suite Yanvalloux 6. Haitian Suite Mascaron 7. Haitian Suite Coumbite (Merci Bon Dieu) 8. Prelude #1 9. Merengue 10. Improvisation 11. Chanson 12. Congo 13. Dance (On Sunday) 14. Serenade Lointaine 15. Valse 16. Untitled 17. Romance 18. Dance of the Hounsies 19. Romance 1978 20. Meringue Frangeul [Bonus Track] 21. Sobo [Bonus Track] 22. Nan Guinan [Bonus Track]