hello all - it was weeks after i'd started working on putting this gig together that i even thought to ask if they'd played together before. i mean, i couldn't think of a record, but surely they must have. well, surely not, as it turns out. i can't imagine, but the squid's ear, along with issue project room, is nevertheless proud to present the world premiere of the eugene chadbourne/marc ribot duo: ISSUE PROJECT ROOM 619 East 6th Street (between Ave B / C) New York, NY 10009 Tel: 212 598 4130 www.issueinc.com/projectroom   For Immediate Release: Saturday, MARCH 20, 8:00PM - $10 The Squid's Ear and ISSUE Project Room Present: The Wrongs of Spring An evening of ingenuity with guitarists Eugene Chadbourne and Marc Ribot NEW YORK CITY – In conjunction with the online music magazine The Squid's Ear, ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present a rare opportunity to see two of today's most innovative guitarists perform together in concert for the first time. On Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 8:00pm, Dr. Eugene Chadbourne and Marc Ribot will play solos and duets in “The Wrongs of Spring” – the evening’s respective title. Eugene Chadbourne and Marc Ribot are both unmistakably virtuosos of modern guitar. They are responsible for helping shape New York’s “downtown music scene” in the 1970s and 80s into what is now internationally renowned. While their styles are self-invented and distinct from one another, Chadbourne and Ribot share many similarities often at times drawing a parallel. Both guitarists have created their own improvisational language, extending traditional techniques of classical guitar with influences ranging from American folk music to country blues, Tin Pan Alley to Albert Ayler. And both are the only two musicians to have tackled John Zorn’s set of solo guitar etudes “The Book of Heads,” a highly imaginative work originally written for and dedicated to Chadnourne yet recorded by Ribot. Eugene Chadbourne For more than 25 years Eugene Chadbourne has been a mainstay of the international avant-garde new music scene to which he brought stylistic influences ranging from country music to heady jazz in the tradition of Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton.  An eclectic composer/musician, Chadbourne performs on electric guitar and five-string banjo and is an alumnus of the legendary ‘80s band Shockabilly.  He did pioneering work on the “prepared” guitar and invented the Electric Rake, a humorous sound effects and performance device that started a whole series of similar contraptions and inspires many others to create like-minded instruments. He has been featured on nearly 100 commercially released albums and compact discs; the lion’s share his own projects. He is also a frequent guest as sideman on avant-garde, jazz, country and rock projects and has appeared on many compilations released throughout the world.      Marc Ribot began his eclectic mixing of styles as a teenager in Newark in the 1960s, where he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, the Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. In 1978, Ribot crossed the river to New York City, and began playing with such musicians as jazz organist Jack McDuff and legendary soul shouter Wilson Pickett, and later backed up Stax/Volt stars Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and Solomon Burke. Ribot began his five-year stint as a member of the Lounge Lizards, John Lurie's innovative and influential downtown jazz ensemble in 1984. His six-string style, which blended elements of classicist blues guitar with an ironic No Wave aesthetic, caught the ear of Elvis Costello and Tom Waits, both of whom he toured and recorded with. At the same time, he continued to explore the ever-changing terrain of New York's new music, working with such musicians as Arto Lindsay, Don Byron, Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman, T-Bone Burnett, the Jazz Passengers, Evan Lurie, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Chocolate Genius, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Zorn in any number of incarnations. Ribot also composed and recorded his own brand of downtown soul music with his bands, Rootless Cosmopolitans and Shrek, as well under his own name and with the Los Cubanos Postizos. For more information about the online music magazine, The Squid's Ear, visit http://www.squidsear.com _________________________________________________________________ Dream of owning a home? Find out how in the First-time Home Buying Guide. http://special.msn.com/home/firsthome.armx