Shrek is a 1994 album by Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...

. It was recorded at Low Blood Studios in New York City and released on the Japanese Avant label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Sean Cooper awarded the album 3 stars stating "The group's debut shifts restlessly among animated jazz, rock, punk, and warped blues themes, filling the inevitable cracks with instrumental textures, minimal vignettes, and formless noise, similar in some respects to John Zorn's Naked City (though with considerably more focus...hell, with focus period!). The group is joined on three tracks by sampler collage artist David Shea. ".

Track listing

All compositions are by Marc Ribot, except where otherwise indicated.

1. "Prelude" (Frantz Casseus
   Frantz Casseus
   Frantz Casseus was a Haitian guitarist and composer.Although born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti he spent most of his adult life in the United States. His music maintained a focus on Haitian folk forms, which he incorporated into his recordings and his published compositions...
   
   ) – 1:17
2. "Spigot" – 2:57
3. "Forth World" – 7:53
4. "Romance" – 6:29
5. "Hoist the Bloody Icon High" – 4:40
6. "Half Ass Whole" (Marc Anthony Thompson, Ribot) – 3:44
7. "Big Money" – 4:45
8. "Shrek" – 6:17
9. "Human Sacrifice" – 10:43
10. "Bells" (Albert Ayler
    Albert Ayler
    Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...
    
    ) – 10:08

Personnel

• Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
  
   – guitars, banjo, Eb horn, drums, pump organ
• Chris Wood
  Chris Wood (jazz musician)
  Christopher Barry Wood is an American bass player, best known for playing with the avant-garde jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood .-Biography:...
  
   (2–5, 7–10) – guitar
• David Shea (2, 6, 9) – sampler
• Sebastian Steinberg
  Sebastian Steinberg
  Sebastian Steinberg is an American bass player, best known for his work in the band Soul Coughing.- Biography :Steinberg played with Soul Coughing throughout the band's entire history, from 1992–2000. He also recorded and performed with guitarist Marc Ribot and appeared on William Shatner's 2004...
  
   (2–5, 7–10) – bass
• Jim Pugliese
  Jim Pugliese
  Jim Pugliese is an American percussionist, drummer, composer and international recording artist on over ninety CDs of experimental, jazz and rock music.His performing experience is diverse...
  
   (2–5, 7–10) – drums
• Christine Bard (3–5, 7–10) – drums
• Marc Anthony Thompson (6) – autoerotic harp