Cato

2008-04-09 Marcus Cato.
Listen in the player to the left.

This is the opposite of the Internet. The opposite of availability. Cato is the opposite of many things. This is the only place where you can find his music. This is how we release his tunes. No records, No MySpace, No Facebook, No Trig, No Virb, No last FM. No artwork, No video, No EPK. Nothing more than this little player here, and the music from it. It’s not a statement. It’s just how it is. Please leave a message in the guestbook.

He has been making music for so long. He is the mastermind behind artists like Familjen, eMiL Jensen and David & the Citizens, and simply one of the most talented persons we have ever met. He doesn't agree. So we bought him a recording device and forced him to deliver songs.

Every Wednesday, from this day, the 9th of April, until Wednesday the 1st April 2009, we will bring you a new track. That is 52 tracks. That is many. Most of them are not even written yet. Time to dig in!
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“Close to the water I’m overwhelmed by the feeling that this is the place. But although I dig and dig there’s not a single gold nugget in sight. The dream changes. Suddenly I’m stuck in the hole with nothing but my head sticking up. I hear light tunes. They circle around my head. I wear a helmet but to no avail. The tunes penetrate my skull and nest inside my soul. It’s beautiful. It’s Cato. Cato, alas!, the smooth Marcus Cato and the one with sharpened canine teeth. Everything he does is reduced and simple – but seductive. He is allowed to trust every melodical whim. He knows how to manufacture these little whims out of large blocks of experience. How to slowly and carefully chisel out overlapping melodies on a piano. How to grind the barrel-organ in some fabulous French movie. How to make brittle and rustling guitar sounds hover above the landscape. I rise from the grave (still void of gold nuggets) and remove the helmet. Liberated.”

Leif Holmstrand,
writer & artist