The Ibrahim Theater @ International House Grand Opening

Saturday, September 20 at 9pm

Reception + Doors at 8pm

Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog

 

Co-presented by Ars Nova Workshop

 

with Marc Ribot, electric guitar; Shahzad Ismaily, electric bass; Ches Smith, drums

 

Please join International House and Ars Nova Workshop for the Philadelphia debut of Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog at Grand Opening Celebration of The Ibrahim Theater

 

Ceramic Dog is a "post-everything" band that combines the energies of two masters of downtown New York City mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Secret Chiefs 3) with West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music, including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, 80s

No-Wave, avant-garde and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith's indie/electronica experimentation, into the group's power-packed debut recording Party Intellectuals.

Ceramic Dog is from the French expression chien de faience, meaning frozen with emotion - like bristling dogs the moment before they fight, or lovers immobilized in one another's gaze. Live and on Party Intellectuals, the band aims at that intensity, creating hypnotic moments of ecstasy, violence, idiocy, beauty; in other words - pure Rock and Roll. Says Ribot, "This is the first time since high school I've been in a real rock band. We actually get together to rehearse just for the fun of it, even when we don’t have gigs!"

Special Thanks to Philadelphia Brewing Co. 

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