Cargo Records - Catalog

SANTA CRUZ is the new "Americana reference" from France. 15 songs were recorded in 5 days, and in an astounding appropiation of the North-American musical culture "Welcome To The Red Barn" could be regarded as a new version of THE BAND's "Music From The Big Pink": a mental landscape of never ending roads and fallen through dream. In the style of new-country (SMOG, LAMBCHOP, WILL OLDHAM, JOHNNY DOWD) with its treatment of silence and tempos, SANTA CRUZ develop unique songs played on the low frets of steel strung guitars. Songs that have atmospheric, airy rhythms, velvety