"Dayvan Cowboy" is the fifth song on The Campfire Headphase

The Campfire Headphase

The Campfire Headphase is the third studio album by Boards of Canada. Released by Warp Records in October 2005, the album featured the addition of heavily treated acoustic guitars and the use of more conventional song structures...

by Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...

. The track was released on iTunes

ITunes

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 on October 4, 2005. The song and a remix of it, created by Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD ; he has worked closely with Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project and remixed tracks by a variety of...

 later appeared on the EP Trans Canada Highway

Trans Canada Highway (EP)

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. Like the rest of The Campfire Headphase, "Dayvan Cowboy" was composed by Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison.

Overview

The track is one of Boards of Canada's best known, and is often seen as being a major ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 highlight of The Campfire Headphase. The track opens as a space music

Space music

Space music, also called spacemusic, is an umbrella term, synonymous with a segment of New Age Music and Ambient Music, used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness. Space music can be found within a wide range of genres. It is particularly associated with ambient, New...

 piece with distorted ambient synthesizers and gradually moves into a more rhythmic signatures.

Music video

In April 2006, a music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for the song "Dayvan Cowboy" was released on the Warp Records website. The video consists of footage from Joe Kittinger's famous parachute jump from 19.5 miles (31.4 km) altitude, and later slow-motion footage of big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton

Laird Hamilton

Laird Hamilton is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, television personality, and model...

. The final scene of the music video showing a sunset or sunrise is from the film Crystal Voyager. The video was directed by Melissa Olson and has received over one million views on YouTube

YouTube

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External links

• "Dayvan Cowboy" music video http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada/player/video/dayvan-cowboy
• The Campfire Headphase at the official Warp Records
  Warp Records
  Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....
  
  website http://warp.net/records/releases/boards-of-canada/the-campfire-headphase
• The Boards of Canada official website http://www.boardsofcanada.com/