Frontera USA by Natalie Pryce
Saddle up, pilgrims we’re going on a musical journey through the old West. The album: “Frontera USA” is a soundtrack album for an imagined Spaghetti Western movie. The album is inspired by the great Italian western soundtracks of the 60's and early 70's, that came to be known as the spaghetti westerns. The record also draws influence from the classic Hollywood themes for cowboy movies and shows like, The Lone Ranger and Bounty Law. This is film music with grit. Set on the border between USA and Mexico the album features instrumentation such as mariachi trumpet, operatic vocals, coyote howls, bells of high-noon, war-whoops and of course the iconic twangy cowboy guitar.
“Frontera USA” was recorded using almost exclusively equipment and techniques of the period at the iconic Green Door Studio Glasgow. The vintage recording style gives the listener more of an immersive sense of the outlaw world. A record riddled with bullet holes and stained with blood. Music that gives a synaesthesiac experience of bravery, revenge and adventure. Down that whiskey bottle, drop your cards and kiss your senoritas farewell, we’re riding to “Frontera USA”.
Tracklist
| 1. | Robert LeRoy Parker | 4:07 |
| 2. | Nate Champion | 3:20 |
| 3. | Henry McCarty | 4:13 |
| 4. | Myra Maybelle Shirley Star | 2:28 |
| 5. | John Wesley Hardin | 3:08 |
| 6. | Magdalena | 3:47 |
| 7. | Laura Bullion | 4:35 |
| 8. | Juanita | 3:24 |
| 9. | Pearl Hart | 3:30 |
| 10. | Bob Munden | 4:15 |
Credits
Mark Swan - vocals, acoustic guitar
Roisin Murray - vocals
Greg Taylor - guitars
Steven Litts - bass guitar
Stephen Coleman - drums
Richard Merchant - trumpet
Produced by Natalie Pryce
Engineered and mastered by Samuel Joseph Smith at Green Door Studios, Glasgow.
