Exercises in Futility

Infobox Album |
Name = Exercises in Futility
Type = studio
Artist = Marc Ribot


Released = February 25, 2008
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Length = 61:30
Label = Tzadik
Producer = Marc Ribot
Reviews =
Last album = ""
(2007)
This album = "Exercises in Futility"
(2008)
Next album = "Party Intellectuals"
(2008)

"Exercises in Futility" is a 2008 album of solo guitar recorded by Marc Ribot and released on Tzadik Records' Composer Series. [ [http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8046 Tzadik catalogue] ] It features compositions that Ribot wrote as "setups for improvising" that "teach guitarists how to play with and in spite of futility". [Olsen, P. [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21084 Marc Ribot: That's the Way I View it from New York] "AllAboutJazz.com" March 27, 2006.]

Track listing

All compositions are by Marc Ribot.
# "Etude No. 1. Five Gestures" – 5:47
# "Etude No. 2. Morton 1" – 4:59
# "Etude No. 3. Elvis" – 4:04
# "Etude No. 4. Bombasto" – 2:53
# "Etude No. 5. Lame" – 3:47
# "Etude No. 6. Cowboy" – 1:46
# "Etude No. 7. Ballad" – 2:53
# "Etude No. 8. Groove?" – 3:14
# "Etude No. 9. Morton 2" – 3:20
# "Etude No. 10. Min" – 1:23
# "Etude No. 11. Ascending" – 2:03
# "Etude No. 12. Mirror" – 4:21
# "Etude No. 13. Wank" – 4:20
# "Etude No. 14. Event on 10th Avenue" – 1:18
# "The Joy of Repetition" – 9:49

Personnel

*Marc Ribot – guitars

References

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