The Hydrogen Cafe

This mixup was inspired by the movie Paris, Texas featuring an awesome soundtrack by Ry Cooder. The movie opens with a man walking alone in the desert with nothing but the wind and sun for company. I took this image and decided to create my own soundtrack of a solitary lonesome man in an empty, quiet desert landscape traveling through small backwater towns….towns that whisper instead of shout. The title comes from a book by Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler, about his hobo-like wanderings through 1950’s America and Mexico. The mix has a decidedly twangy western feel to compliment Ry Cooder’s amazing slide guitar while maintaining a slow, quiet, ambient progression. I hope you enjoy this mix.

T R A C K L I S T I N G

1. Various Soundfiles – Little Children Movie 2. Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas 3. Steve Roach and Roger King - A Bigger Sky 4. Ry Cooder - Brothers 5. Loren Connors - Whispers 6. Steve Roach and Roger King - First Sunrise 7. Yuichiro Fujimoto - Listen to November Steps 8. Yellow 6 - Summersend 9. Robin Guthrie - Pale 10. Ry Cooder - Nothing Out There 11. John Fahey - Finale 12. Loren Connors - Lullaby (the 1st) 13. Steve Roach and Roger King - Rain and Creosote 14. Handsome Family - Last Night I Went Out Walking 15. Daniel Lanois - Carla 16. Yuichiro Fujimoto - Handwritten Map to Sea 17. Grails - Canyon Hymn 18. James Blackshaw - Granite and Wineglass 19. Ry Cooder - No Safety Zone 20. Ry Cooder - Cancion Mixteca 21. John Fahey - View (East from...Riggs Road B & O Trestle) 22. Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd - Goodbye to Wendy 23. Hammock - The Silence 24. Loren Connors - Grandmother 25. Ess - Gee-gem 26. Steve Roach and Roger King - Ghost Train 27. Ramblin' Thomas - Poor Boy Blues 28. Deaf Center - Lobby 29. Loren Connors - Jesuits 30. Loren Connors Voice of the Ocean, Despair Not! 31. Yuichiro Fujimoto - History of Dreams 32. Ry Cooder - Dark Was the Night

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