Lee Ranaldo: new album "Electric Trim" 09/15, "New Thing" video

photo: Alex Rrademakers

Lee Ranaldo will release his new album Electric Trim on September 15 on Mute. Naomi Yang directed the video for New Thing.

Ranaldo was followed by film crew during the recording sessions. The year long process was turned into a documentary directed by Fred Riedel and Jerry Fried. The Thrill of the Creative Process in HELLO HELLO HELLO will be shown at selected film festivals later this year. Confirmed festivals: the New Jersey Film Festival, Fonomo Music & Film Festival in Poland, Gig Harbor Film Festival in Seattle, and London Doc ‘n Roll festival. Odds that it will be part of CD/DVD combo too.

Score! Lee Ranaldo and Marc Ribot add sound to silent movie classics at ELLNORA

Lee Ranaldo will perform the world premiere of his solo guitar score for Buster Keaton's 1922 silent film Cops at ELLNORA, the guitar festival at Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on September 9, 2011.

Ranaldo's score was commissioned by Krannert Center and will feature the solo guitar playing of this American musician/record producer/visual artist who's best known as a co-founder of Sonic Youth.

Marc Ribot will unveil a new score for the Charlie Chaplin classic The Kid:

Style-morphing icon Marc Ribot, who has lent his mercurial guitar sounds to collaborations with Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and John Zorn, will share the bill, performing his score to Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, which was commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival. The opening titles to Chaplin's 1921 masterpiece describe the story as "a picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear," and the film is notable for its bittersweet combination of comedy and drama.

» ellnoraguitarfestival.com

The Knitting Factory: 20th anniversary concert bash

Another big night in the Big Apple:

Legendary concert promoter Michael Dorf will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Knitting Factory (which he made famous), with an all-star benefit at New York's Town Hall on March 1. The event will raise money for John Zorn's artist's womb, The Stone, and features a number of the Knits most famous alumni. Artists currently scheduled to perform include John Zorn, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Medeski Martin & Wood, Joe Lovano, Marc Ribot, Lee Ranaldo, Don Byron, and Mike Doughty.

March 1st, 2007 - Town Hall, NYC - 8pm

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