Link to the Show / Show NotesAqui fica a sugestão para todos. uma visita ao velho oeste pelas mãos de Daniel Catarino, Uma mistura de sons... uma construção plástica e visualmente sonora. Sem mais palavras fica o convite a descobrirem este alentejano, que talvez inspirado pelas planícies da sua terra tão parecidas com o velho oeste, fez estas construções sonoras tão únicas e singulares.
Runtime: 35'31''
«"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
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Runtime: 31'11''
«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
Downloads:
all tracks + artwork / todas as faixas + artwork
release page / página do lançamento
Myspace - Long Desert Cowboy
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