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PARIS, TEXAS (ost)
  1. Paris Texas
  2. Brothers
  3. Nothing Out There
  4. A Cancion Mixteca
  5. no Safety Zone
  6. Houston In Two Seconds
  7. She’s Leaving The Bank
  8. On The Couch
  9. I Knew These People
  10. Dark Was The Night

RY COODER

PARIS, TEXAS (ost)

warner bros
  • CD

    Released: 8th Feb 1985

    £5.99
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ry cooder's score is a peaceful, poetic journey into the soul of an acoustic guitar.

suggestive of both the imagery of win wenders' movie & the desert itself, 'paris, texas', 'brothers' & 'nothing out there' open the album as meditative blends of guitar twang & scratching ambient effects. the songs move at a pretty, slow place, & the opening track sees cooder plucking his guitar's strings & letting that sound vibrate into thin air; it's a motif that he returns to repeatedly throughout the score. there's a bit of both humour & mystery to the stillness & the echoing, edgy sound effects that crop up. ‘cancion mixteca’ includes a memorable turn on vocals by harry dean stanton, singing in spanish.