Marc Ribot: Live solo film score to “Aelita, Queen of Mars”

Enigmatic guitarist Marc Ribot has released 6 very diverse solo guitar albums: (including John Zorn’s Book of Heads, Plays the Works of Frantz Casseus, Saints, Don’t Blame Me, Exercises in Futility) and 2010’s, Silent Movies (Pi Recordings) has been described as a “down-in-mouth-near master piece” by the Village Voice and has landed on several Best of 2010 lists including the LA Times and critical praise across the board. His live solo performances are unpredictable events which may draw on all of these or none, creating a sonic matrix of memory, free improvisation, zeitgeist, extra-terrestrial radio signals, and much more…always leaving the listener on the edge of their seats.

“Aelita: Queen of Mars” (1924) (Live score) 90mins.

Said to be the first full-length science fiction movie ever made, this influential film about space travel by the Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov is re-imagined by avant guitarist Marc Ribot with a new score premiered at London’s Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall and recorded live and released on the composer’s album Shoe String Sympnonettes for the Tzadik’s Film Series.

In 2016, Marc re-worked his score for solo guitar which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in Medillin, Colombia.