Ry Cooder's last album was released way back in 1983, the fairly successful but musically undistinguished 'Slide Area'. Since then! Well, he's done the music for 'Southern Comfort' and 'Paris Texas' but hasn't as yet produced a follow-up LP. In the absence of the latter, this soundtrack album will have to keep the fans happy.

As anyone who has seen it will testify, Cooder's score for Paris Texas is bare and brooding, an almost perfect counterpoint to the starkness and loneliness of the film.

Well, that's what you have here. A series of instrumental pieces, one Texicali song, and a recording of one of the key scenes of the move, harry Dean Stanton and Nastassia Kinski in the peepshow booth, with Cooder playing away behind.