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Last Updated: 12/12/2009

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Status: Single
City: EDINBURGH
State: Scotland
Country: UK
Signup Date: 12/19/2006

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Friday, December 18, 2009 

If you live in France and you would like to purchase a CD copy of my EP. You can now purchase it from the fantastic Paris based independent music shop Hand and Arms records.

http://handsandarms.com/supplier.php?id_supplier=556

Also thanks to Arnie at Radio Bremen in Germany for playing my track ‘The Loneliest Cowboy’ on his show - which I believe was a round up of some of the amazing music released this year!

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Monday, December 07, 2009 
Another short but extremely complementary review from subba-cultcha.com in their December Singles/Eps Reviews. Any review that compares my music with Burt Bacharach and mentions the song 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' is a big, big compliment to me. I would like to add that I am available to score 'Amelie II' if they make it :)
　
"MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE – THE LONELIEST COWBOY – www.themanfromanotherplace.com

Pianos are the new guitars, man. Burt Bacharach would be proud of this unintentional amalgam of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" and "The look of love". Instrumental charmingness that would make for a brilliant score to Amelie II. (CM)"

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Monday, November 30, 2009 
A very nice review of 'The Loneliest Cowboy' EP from Losing Today magazine. Thanks to Mark the editor!

"The Man from another place - ‘the loneliest cowboy’ EP (meerkat).
The much anticipated debut from the mysteriously named the Man from Another Place whose real identity I’m sure we’ve managed to reveal in a previous despatches though for now we’ll settle for Dan of Edinburgh. We first stumbled across TMFAP while doing a spot research on 88 tapes way back sometime last year - in fact there have been frequent sightings of TMFAP in these pages since - mainly due to the fact that we here are positively smitten by the stuff. Best described as a porch lit moonshine swigging get together of Oddfellows Casino, Go Team, Mike Post, L’Augmentation, the Heartstrings (check out the rather out of step and out of time ‘guess who’s back in time’ - simply exquisite) and Morricone types with Burt Bacharach as their host. Better still the author himself described the aural odyssey within as ’soundtrack music from a lost film’. listening to the five tracks featured ‘the loneliest cowboy’ there’s a sense of being awash by a veritable cornucopia of styles and moods, one minute it’s the souring reflective nature of Post’s most memorable TV themes, the next extensions of Morricone’s playfulness as revealed via his soundtrack for the Spaghetti western epic ‘once upon a time in the west’ specifically the scenes featuring Jason Robards’ ‘Cheyenne’ character - none more so is this the case than on the flotillas of inebriated banjos that find themselves lolloping with crisp lazy eyed mischief across the title cut abridged with the winter-esque brush strokes of sighing brass fanfares much nodding in the direction of Brighton’s much admired Oddfellow Casino’s debut full length. Elsewhere there’s the sweetly bitter swansong reprise like lilts of the Post meets Ronald Binge’s ’sailing by’ or the gorgeously smoked library sound lull of the marimba drenched ’IYS’ to send you into untold chilled raptures. All said our current favourite moment (it changing each and every time we hear these tracks) is the parting ‘Spelunking (part 1)’ which finds itself operating in worlds previously advanced by Stereolab in their ’dots and loops’ phase albeit as previously noted in past appraisals given a tightly grooved Studio 54 facelift and then tweaked by a flirty Giorgio Moroder. And with that there’s not a lot more I can say other than to recommend you get this into your life as soon as. Joint single of the missive. Any questions. Thought not. www.themanfromanotherplace.com "

Also thanks to Sher at Homegrown Radio in New Jersey and Jonny Mambo at WCOM in North Carolina for both playing 'The Loneliest Cowboy' EP on their radio shows.


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Friday, November 20, 2009 
My Debut EP was featured in the best of this week's single releases in Organ Magazine.

"THE MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE – The Loneliest Cowboy EP (self release) - Pleasant tunes, soothing, filmy, melodic instrumental pieces, touches of Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson – the quality of it all, the same sense of melodic adventure, rather than any obvious sound-alike reference... Rather gorgeous actually, all quietly restrained and accomplished orchestral brightness. Tingling and alive, five fine tracks, all of them as food as each other and everything just right in every way – www.themanfromanotherplace.com"
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 

I got a nice little note from Sean O’ Hagan of The High Llamas. Someone whose music has had a big influence on me. Especially their Beet Maize & Corn album which is my favourite (If you do not have it you should get a copy).  

“Beautiful  music . Life in Edinburgh must be good enough to produce these smiling sounds . Hi from the Llamas”

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 

'The Loneliest Cowboy' and ‘IYS’ from my debut EP were featured on one of my favourite radio shows last night. Thanks to Arnie at Radio Bremen in Germany! You can listen to his excellent show 'Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Pop' here.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009 

 


I am pleased to announce the release of my debut EP 'The Loneliest Cowboy EP' on the excellent Meerkat Label. It contains five tracks, slightly different versions from the tracks you can hear on my MySpace page. The mixes have generally been improved and a few extra bits were added. It was professionally mastered by Dave Blackman who did a fantastic job. It is available as a limited edition CD from my website and as an MP3 download from both ITunes and Amazon.

The limited edition CD obviously sounds a lot better than the MP3 version and you also get the chance to hear the EP as I intended it to sound with pretty much no gaps in between the tracks. The limited edition CD also contains some nice new artwork by me.

You can purchase the CD and the MP3 downloads here!
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 

I am pleased to announce the release of my debut EP 'The Loneliest Cowboy'. It is going to be released next Monday (October 19th). It will be available to buy as a limited edition CD or as an MP3 download from Itunes and Amazon. Finally got my hands on the finished CD today. It was professionally mastered by Dave Blackman who did a fantastic job. The CDs were then reproduced from a glass master and I have to say the finished product sounds great. Here is a few low quality photos I took with my phone.


 

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Monday, August 17, 2009 

After months of  messing around, doing new mixes, writing new sections, scrapping pretty much most of the new sections and generally getting distracted by things going on in my personal life. I finally finished my Debut EP. At the weekend, I received the Master Copy from my Mastering Engineer.


 

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 
Much thanks again to Arnie at Radio Bremen in Germany for playing my song 'The Loneliest Cowboy' on his radio show 'Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Pop' on the 30th June. He played it right after one of my favourite songs, a song that had a huge influence on me - the Jimmy Webb (& Glen Campbell) song Wichita Lineman. You can view playlist and listen to the show here!
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