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Long Desert Cowboy is the sound of sunburnt hands, sweaty palms, dripping foreheads. Unpretentious, simple, direct. A voyage into the patient side. Don't drink all the water at once, or it will run out sooner than you think. Enjoy the ride. All of it.
Long Desert Cowboy é o som das mãos queimadas pelo sol, das palmas suadas, das testas que respingam. Despretensioso, simples, directo. Uma viagem ao lado paciente. Não bebas a água toda de uma só vez, que se acaba rapidamente. Aprecia a viagem. Toda.
«What kind of feeling puts together the barren solitude of Sergio Leone's western spaghettis and the ultra heavy suspense of David Lynch's complex dramas? Living in Alentejo may have something to do with it, but Daniel Catarino's own life experiences and close contact with a deserted inland are most likely the paint in the canvas, or the roll in the camera, if you wish.
From 'Western Spaghetti' and 'Sandshoes' to this new work 'Finareia' something changed, and for the better. If Long Desert Cowboy's thick ambient collages borrowed something from Ry Cooder before, they've done the same with Angelo Badalamenti this time, Lynch's favorite soundtrack composer. If you swap the redwood pines for the desert cactus, most of the ambients created here are very reminiscent of Twin Peaks. And in a way, they carry the same dramatic narrative, only to be broken into pieces as soon as you hear Clint Eastwood's 'Blondie' talking to his villainous partner.
Highly suggestive track names like 'Spitting on a dead fascist', 'Hang my gun up in the wall' or 'Hanging a cow by the neck' complete the task of creating the perfect ambient for the listener to dive into, closing his eyes and picturing himself inside a David Lynch movie. Get this now!» - Pedro Leitão
Handmade Music 1999-2003 Once in a while, there is an album with such rawness that it becomes almost irresistible. This doesn’t happen often, but it’s certainly what can be found in this “Handmade Music 1999-2003” EP, by Daniel Catarino, in this case under the alias Long Desert Cowboy.
From the raw tape recordings of the opening and closing titles, to the aesthetical beauty of “Sacred Vows of Mother Earth” and the melodic growth of “Poor But Honest”, this album, recorded, according to the author, from the age of 16 to his 20th birthday, is not a work of perfection, but it shows an immense creativity and a desire to turn simple melodies into instrumental songs.
Those who are familiar with Long Desert Cowboy’s previous works, will certainly notice obvious differences when compared to the “horror-spaghetti” ambience of the debut EP’s “Sandshoes” and “Western Spaghetti”, since it’s more of a rock record than a ambient/field recording exercise. Nonetheless, some of the present characteristics are there, and it cannot be an act of randomness.
It is important that you don’t let this album slip through your fingers without listening to it.
Carlos Gonçalves
Western Spaghetti - EP Download «The 'alentejano' Daniel Catarino has kept for his second volume as Long Desert Cowboy a not so guitar-based, less Ry Cooder-esque sound than what is explored in the first volume (curiously, it's this one who gets to be titled 'Western Spaghetti).
This is an album of shades, isolation, reflexion and patience, which bets higher in 'what isn't said' than in 'what is said'. It finds some parallel in the piece "Banda sonora para um dia normal", from Landfill, another moniker from Catarino, but in this case the emphasis isn't placed in the patchwork of contrasting elements, instead it's put in the building of impressionist exercises.
"For the Money", for instance, makes itself of unknown origin sounds from different planes, delay-soaked, accompanied with patient synthesizers. In "Kicking the Sand", a monastic voice waves above some bluesy guitars and what seems to be field recordings. As for "Tired of being fucking poor and honest", it's guitar ambient in shy levitation.
with or without its companion 'Sandshoes', 'Western Spaghetti' is an apropriate record for late night mental introspection.» - Pedro Rios
Sandshoes - EP Download «"The times, they are a-changin'". The new musical outfit of Daniel Catarino (also known as Landfill) brings dust to our footsteps and its consequent footprints. It may not be deliberate but the first of the two volumes from this new adventure carries the smell and feel of Ry Cooder. Throughout its six chapters, Daniel Catarino builds a sand map, drawing richly detailed landscapes. Long Desert Cowboy is, so to speak, a landscape architect who respects the immediate in spite of the project at hand. In "Bee 7" he still walks in the land of dreams (crossed by messages from unidentified beings) and imagination, but from "$$$" onwards, Daniel Catarino puts his foot outside and delivers five moments of rare beauty: to that end he uses guitars in distant lands, keyboards and sounds snatched from real life. Here and from the beginning to the end of 'Sandshoes', this is the vision of deep western America from the perspective of a portuguese. A trip worth taking.» - André Gomes
Portugal is geographically a small country but that does not mean that the musical talent that inhabits it sometimes overflow and pollute neighboring areas and the cyberspace … the objective of this compilation is to give a glimpse of what is currently happening in Portuguese electronic music scene … I say small because outside this playlist remains a lot of talented artists who will continue bending your cerebral circuits in a second volume of this compilation … but not trying to evade that we present in this first volume of portuguese pitch benders, in this one you will find a crop full of beats contrasted with time lapses and some artificial environments … all adulterated in a good Portuguese FRESHION style..
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Nunca estive no deserto mas concordo que estas seriam óptimas músicas para ouvir se me encontrasse num... casos há em que em frente ao computador me encontro isolado tal como se estivesse num deserto...
A minha favorita hoje foi "Sacred Vows of Mother Earth".
Tudo bem? Saiu hoje o nosso primeiro EP titulado “For Some Clowns”, vem ao nosso espaço ouvir o novo tema “Seven Sins” e deixa a tua opinião! O EP custa apenas 3€, entregamos por correio à cobrança também. Visita, cumprimentos
BANG é o nome corrente para um certo número de espécies de amantes de música da família LCD. Os BANGS estão divididos entre várias sub-famílias conforme enumerado neste artigo, Segment&Offset geeks do IDM, VLS e o seu fato sensível, Doc Labyrinth fazedor de ruído experimental o nosso convidado especial minusbaby vindo directamente de Nova York, a terra dos 8 bits o pescado fresco da nossa Serra da Estrela Diat0m, o nuraver ocasional i7o, o mestre minimal CJ Vega os estimuladores visuais Frank Zapping e Deaf by Visuals.Espere o inesperado e esteja preparado para choques aqua-eléctricos.Não use os seus sapatos novos, os seus pés agradecer-lhe-ão ^^
BANG is the common name for a number of species in the LCD family of music lovers. BANGS are divided between several subfamilies listed in this article; Segment&Offset IDM geeks VLS and his sensitive suit, Doc Labyrinth experimental noise maker, our special flown in from New York 8bitland - minusbaby. Freshly fished Diat0m from our local starry mountain Occasional nuraver i7o, and minimal master CJ Vega. Visual stimulators Frank Zapping and Deaf by Visuals. Expect the unexpected, and be prepared for aqua electric shocks. Don..t wear you new shoes, your feet will thank you ^^
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