Artist description Life in the Old West was a life of grief. Those that survived it endured immeasurable hardships--the agony of working all summer raising a few dry stalks of corn, the inconvenience of persistent rustlers and vag-abonds, and often, the pain of shooting one's own horse rather than sharing a last canteen of water. Today, life in the West carries novel hardships--but these hardships are no less arduous. Westerners all know the maddening frustration of trying to fire a barbecue on a windy Arizona evening, the incessant drudgery of cleaning tumbleweeds from one's swimming pool, and the unpleasant palate that remains after a sip from a Martini polluted by a dusty desert wind.

Music Style Spaghetti Western Lounge

Musical Influences The Bossanova, Kandinsky, Sergio Leone, Moricone

Similar Artists Ennio Moricone, Calexico, Esquivel, Dean Martin

Instruments Guitar, electronica, trumpet, bass, drums, tabla, bongos, tympani

Press Reviews This San Francisco ensemble mixes lounge, Western, and trip-hop to create dusty, spacey ranch-hand club kid music. The opening instrumental's first few notes evoke images of a high-noon showdown on a dusty gold rush-town main street, complete with cowboy guitar, Mexican trumpet, and church bells, till a thumping beat kicks in and propels the tape to abstract landscapes where Mancini says howdy to both John Wayne and the Sneaker Pimps. Hammonds and tick-tick-tick claves accentuate cleanly reverbed Western guitars, octave fretwork slides over bossa nova rhythms, and Hawaii Five-0 timpani and Jimmy Smith-ish organ licks click over city-slicker beats. Thunderosa plays beguiling cocktail songs for the modern cowpoke. (Summer Burkes) San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Location San Francisco, California - USA

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