Thursday, March 10, 2005

Husky Rescue - "Summertime Cowboy"

I woke up this morning (well, strictly speaking yesterday morning, it now being gone midnight) to this bouncy, brightly-produced, shiny-happy-slightly chilly pop song, and wasn't at all surprised to learn that it came from out of Scandinavia - Finland, actually. The song was "Summertime Cowboy", and the band 'Husky Rescue', and a browse on the net has revealed that it's basically the project of one man, Marko Nyberg, who cites a range of influences including David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and "warm and honest country music"...it all sounds very conceptual, but, funnily enough, I can actually see at least some of those influences (Satie/Glass in particular) in the various songs of theirs which I've been able to track down online tonight (entirely legitimately, I might add - it's good to see that musicians are coming to see that the internet can be their friend!), and possibly the cinematic references come through more in the videos; the "Summertime Cowboy" video is fairly cool, while the one for "City Lights" is pretty damn Lynchian. Not sure if I'm excited enough to track down any of the band's recorded stuff (on the basis of these early listens, I don't think it's really that good), but even if not, I feel that the world's a better place for the existence of the music that they're making.