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Super Long Cowboy

from Migration by Bug Toast

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Christopher: When I finished the arrangement on the four-track recorder, the first person to listen to it was my young son, Oliver. I asked him what he thought I should call it, and without hesitation, he loudly exclaimed: "Super Long Cowboy!!!" There you have it. And how perceptive he was, because the pensive melody at the beginning gives way to thunder rolling and a post-minimalist section envisioning a cowboy riding his galloping horse across a lonely plain, then the rain, and the pensive melody returns, this time with a harmonizing line.

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Instrumental composition featuring bouzouki, two guizouks,
percussion, and field recordings from the BBC sound effects archives.

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from Migration, released May 25, 2010
SUPER LONG COWBOY
by Christopher Shotola-Hardt

Dave Andrews (bouzouki)
Mark Andrews (guizouk)
Christopher Shotola-Hardt (guizouk)
Susanne Shotola-Hardt (shakers)
Robert Shotola (percussion)

Field Recordings: BBC sound effects archives

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Bug Toast Portland, Oregon

Bug Toast defies categorization, playing genre-bending, world-influenced, progressive folk on bouzouki, accordion, guitar, bass, violin, percussion, and sound samples, with textured instrumentation, vocal harmonies, and interesting time signatures. Blended from two musical families, Bug Toast creates richly textured, interwoven pieces with careful attention to counterpoint, voicing, and rhythms. ... more

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