{"id":1891,"date":"2009-12-22T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:58","slug":"long-desert-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1891","title":{"rendered":"Long Desert Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/tube141_460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1892\" style=\"margin: 5px 20px; float: right;\" title=\"tube141_460\" src=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/tube141_460-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What kind of feeling puts together the barren solitude of Sergio Leone&#8217;s western spaghetti and the ultra heavy suspense of David Lynch&#8217;s complex dramas? Living in <em>Alentejo<\/em> [a south-central region of Portugal] may have something to do with it, but Daniel Catarino&#8217;s (aka Long Desert Cowboy) 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Catarino&#8217;s sounds are miles away from the common western soundtracks, but his works create a mood that reminds me both the deserted plains of Ry Cooder and the suspense of Twin Peaks (are you old enough?).<\/p>\n<p>Published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Test Tube<\/a> netlabel. Free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube141.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube141\/tube141-03-long_desert_cowboy_-_echoes_from_sunshine_valley.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Echoes from Sunshine Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocromatica.com\/netlabel\/releases\/tube141\/tube141-04-long_desert_cowboy_-_blues_for_the_burning_sun.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues for the burning sun<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of feeling puts together the barren solitude of Sergio Leone&#8217;s western spaghetti and the ultra heavy suspense of David Lynch&#8217;s complex dramas? Living in Alentejo [a south-central region of Portugal] may have something to do with it, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1891\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19012,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/19012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}