Marc Ribot Previews First Vocal Solo Album with “Daddy’s Trip to Brazil”

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Marc Ribot, celebrated for his singular genre-adverse guitar sound and work with titans like Tom Waits, John Zorn and the Lounge Lizards, is set to release his first solo vocal album on May 23. Map of a Blue City is nearly 30 years in the making and collects nine eclectic cuts reflective of his shape-shifting sympathies for no wave, free jazz, American roots, noise and bossa nova, among others. 

Today, he’s shared a shade of that last style with “Daddy’s Trip to Brazil,” his third preview single following warped treatments of The Carter Family’s country rarity “When the World’s on Fire” and Allen Ginsberg’s 1949 poem “Sometime Jailhouse Blues” that came coupled with the album announcement. Ribot describes the hazy, sunken tropicalia driven along by his barbed, languid vocals as “a hungover post-punk echo of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s famous Wave importing the ennui of a late-capitalist touring musician into the tropicalismo paradise.” Like much of his music, it’s not quite like anything else out there.

Ribot will debut his new record with a June 11 release show at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Roulette. He’ll spend the rest of the summer working through a four-stop Canadian run with Ceramic Dog and making European stops with the Marc Ribot Quartet before returning to the States with a record release show in September. So far, he’s announced appearances in Evanston, Ill., Portland, Maine, Boston, Amherst, Mass. and Fairfield, Conn. between Sept. 6 and 28, with more still to be announced. Find his full 2025 live itinerary at marcribot.com.

Map of a Blue City is available to pre-order and pre-save now. Watch the music video for “Daddy’s Trip to Brazil” below.