Shoe String Symphonettes

Shoe String Symphonettes
Soundtrack album by Marc Ribot
Released March 18, 1997
Genre Avant-garde jazz, experimental music
Length 45:13
Label Tzadik
Producer JD Foster
Marc Ribot chronology
Don't Blame Me
(1995)
Shoe String Symphonettes
(1997)
The Prosthetic Cubans
(1998)

Shoe String Symphonettes is a 1997 album of film music by Marc Ribot released on Tzadik Records.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Sean Cooper awarded the album 3 stars stating "Symphonettes features some of Ribot's most compelling work to date, both creatively augmenting the originals and sketching out cinematic spaces more or less autonomous from the films they were inspired by".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

All compositions are by Marc Ribot except where noted.

  1. "Looks Like Hell" – 2:17
  2. "Hitman" – 2:07
  3. "Aelita Suite I: Martian/Lost in Space/More Martians/Harping and Burning/Prepare for Landing" – 6:46
  4. "Montuno" – 3:28
  5. "Bells" (Albert Ayler) – 1:07
  6. "Aelita Suite II: Martian Telescope/Men of Science" – 3:05
  7. "Before the Prison Riot" – 3:28
  8. "You Kill Him" – 5:01
  9. "Surf's Down" – 1:27
  10. "Paul's There" – 2:22
  11. "Did You?" – 2:05
  12. "Aelita Suite III: A Message from Mars/Martian Battle/Avante Popolo" – 6:54
  13. "End Credits (Landlord Blues)" – 2:12
  14. "End Credits (Death By Unnatural Causes)" – 2:54

Personnel

References

  1. Tzadik catalogue
  2. 1 2 Cooper, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 4, 2011.
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