Entertainment For Man And Horse

The acclaim keeps pouring in for Santiago’s debut album Entertainment For Man And Horse, a solid 36-minute blast of idealistic rock ‘n roll on the band’s own record label, City Sound Inertia. Recorded in just two days, the album showcases a first-draft sense of immediacy, the kind of spontaneous, energy-fueled unhinging of bottled talent. Santiago’s are the songs providing snapshots of our accelerated lives: the independence vs. desperation of living alone, throwing cares out the passenger side window, falling in love with cocktail ennui, stalking jazz musicians in downtown Oakland, pleas to superstition, curses to old lovers, and the stillness that comes with each crossroad. Such a confident and action-packed debut can often cause sudden implosion, but Entertainment For Man And Horse is the catalyst that sparked what promises to be a brilliant career for this shockingly versatile California trio. “These are the songs of mid-adolescence, of long afternoons, road trips through cornfields, and suction-style kisses.” – Punk Planet “One of the more intelligent and gifted local bands to take a Sonoma County stage in the past several years.” - The Press Democrat “Santiago’s music is what all music should be like – it takes you to the forgotten places in your mind, or maybe gives you a slight peek into someone else’s.” - Nielzine