For more than forty years Marc Ribot has refused to stay in one place, moving between jazz, rock, No Wave, songwriting, solo guitar, film music, Cuban music and free improvisation, and leaving his mark on everything. Hurry Red Telephone is his first all-instrumental album since Live at the Village Vanguard (2014), the trio record with drummer Chad Taylor and the late bassist Henry Grimes, and it brings him back together with Taylor.

The quartet was recorded in two sessions: one with tenor saxophonists James Brandon Lewis and Brian Settles and bassist Hilliard Greene, the other with alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss and bassist Sebastian Steinberg, a veteran of Ribot's Shrek and other projects of the early 1990s. There are four original compositions and two by the Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casséus, Ribot's teacher and an enduring influence; on 'New Monster' David Watson adds bagpipes. The music is composed but never contained, its structures used as launchpads for improvisation: volatile, lyrical, abrasive, funny and soulful by turns.

The title comes from 'Several Tremendous', a poem by Richard Siken about rebuilding the ability to write and speak after a stroke, an image for a language rebuilt from the ground up. Released by Pi Recordings.