DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
Marc Ribot
Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
(Anti-Records)
★★★★★
MADE up of original compositions and traditional songs, this remarkable album from veteran New York City guitarist Marc Ribot is a forceful reaction to the election of President Donald Trump.
Unpolished, musically varied and often angry, it’s like a lost soundtrack to Howard Zinn’s seminal book A People’s History of the United States.
Tom Waits growls through Italian anti-fascist tune Bella Ciao, while Sam Amidon and Fay Victor are the guest vocalists on How To Walk in Freedom, a 1970s soul-sounding civil rights hymn to Rosa Parks, Emma Goldman and Malcolm X.
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