If you name an album COWBOY BALLADS PART 1 and open it with a song called “Cowboy Ballad”, you can safely assume programmatic. And if that’s the case, then Jesse Tabish signals with this opening track, which isn’t even a ballad at all, but an instrumental: No, I may come from Oklahoma, but I’m expressly not orienting myself towards Nashville country, but rather towards doubly broken clichĂ©s of the Cowboys from the late and spaghetti westerns of the 1970s, because a spherical choir blows through the “Cowboy Ballad” that wants to bring Ennio Morricone and Henry Mancini to life at the same time.
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Later, drums imitating a horse’s trot do set in, but these pieces all fade away, remain distant, almost disembodied. From that point of view, this solo debut is reminiscent of Tabish’s band Other Lives, at least in mood, but here he goes one step further, not only putting reverb on his voice, but sending the whole sound through on the journey like a twirling bush the desert.
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