Évora, Portugal
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Daniel Catarino is a self-taught musician from Alentejo, Portugal. He began playing guitar when he was eleven, and since the beginning he thought about writing his own music. The years went by, and things started to get into shape.
He has now 3 bands, the Electro/Grunge/Psychedelic Moneymaking Machine, the classic rock-ish Delay Lama, and the metal blast of Seven Thousand (where he plays bass, in the other two he plays guitar and sings). But his finest works are on his 3 (!!!) solo projects: the experimental soundtrack ambients of Long Desert Cowboy, the Portuguese songwriting and rock deviations of Landfill, and the acoustic folk approach of Oceansea, which he now debuts with this self-released EP, “Songs From The Bedroom Floor”.
Just as the name of the album suggests, it was recorded only with a guitar and a microphone in the floor of his bedroom, in order to keep it as simple and real as possible, so that the songs get in front of ambient, which he prefers to explore in his other projects. And the result is surprisingly good. The songs are beautifully crafted, with simple chord progressions, verse-chorus-verse structures and very poetic lyrics, in which it is clear that Catarino has a true gift with words, just as he has with music.
Though the best song in this EP is clearly “Breathing”, with its simple lyrics and melody, the one that really shows “something more” about Oceansea is “Postcards from the Walls of Sin”, a beautiful poem accompanied with an interesting chord progression throughout its 7 minutes. “Throw a penny in a guitar case / Someone robs a blind man’s cane / And walks out in laughter swinging it in the air / What is worth ain’t what is fair to some”
Nuno Gonçalves
 | The Whimsical River ( 1541 Wiedergabe ) | |
| | Breathing ( 697 Wiedergabe ) | |
| | Over The Sun ( 436 Wiedergabe ) | |
| | Seasons in the Rain ( 304 Wiedergabe ) | |
| | Postcards from the Walls of Sin ( 255 Wiedergabe ) | |
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