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Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of down- Party intellectualstown New York City mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (, , , T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Lounge Lizards, ) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, ), with West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer (, Secret Chiefs 3, ’s Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music, including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, 80s No-Wave, avant-garde and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith’s indie / electronica experi- mentation, into the power-packed .

Ceramic Dog grew out of a post 9-11 bucket list, when Ribot decided to find out what would happen if he did away with the hyphens haunting his earlier projects: the punk-Latin “Cubanos Postizos,” the punk-experimental “Shrek,” and the punk- “Spiritual Unity.” It took several years of searching before Ribot found, in Ches Smith and Shahzad Ismaily, the MARC RIBOT’S CERAMIC DOG rhythm section with the energy for The Thing itself. Says Ribot,"This is the PARTY INTELLECTUALS first time since high school I've been in a real rock band. We actually get together to rehearse just for the fun of it, even when we don’t have gigs!" () Release Date: June 24, 2008 The name Ceramic Dog is from the French expression “chien de faïence,” meaning frozen with emotion––like bristling dogs the moment before they *press materials and more info can be found at fight, or lovers immobilized in one another’s gaze. Live and on Party fourpawsmedia.com/ceramicdog Intellectuals, the band aims at that intensity, creating hypnotic moments of ecstasy, violence, idiocy, beauty; in other words – pure Rock and Roll. Track Listing

1. Break On Through 2. Party Intellectuals 3. Todo El Mundo Es Kitsch "Marc Ribot's new power trio, filled out by the remarkable versatile rhythm 4. When We Were Young and We Were Freaks team of bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith, is his rawest 5. Digital Handshake band in ages." –Time Out New York 6. Bateau 7. For Malena “Ceramic Dog made a hard kind of sense. With Mr. Ribot on guitar, 8. Fuego Shahzad Ismaily on bass and Moog synthesizer, and Ches Smith on 9. Girlfriend drums, it delivered a blast of sound that was variously ominous, crude and 10. Midost sly. There were handclaps and Cuban montuños; there was numbskull punk 11. ShSh ShSh and roadhouse blues; there was the odd doom-metal drone… Prickly but 12. Never Better popular, with a mood both breezy and intense.” –The New York Times

• Ceramic Dog is: Marc Ribot – Guitars, vocals Shahzad Ismaily – Bass, vocals, Moog Ches Smith – Drums, percussion, electronics, vocals

Contact: • Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, and a first-call guitarist Marisa Handren for T-Bone Burnett, Tom Waits and John Zorn. He is the featured guitarist four paws media on the Grammy Award-winning Robert Plant and CD . (908) 310-1821 [email protected] • Ribot´s influence spans multiple genres, including rock, jazz, Latin, www.fourpawsmedia.com avant-garde and noise. He draws on all of these influences and more for his AIM: MarisaMagik first “rock” band project: Ceramic Dog.