Tag: “Can’t Have What You Want” (Raz Olsher song)

Raz Olsher’s “Can’t Have What You Want” is a Haunted and Existential Theme Song to an Imaginary Cowboy Tale

Raz Olsher, photo courtesy the artist

Craters of the Lost Souls is a 2025 album by London-based producer and composer Raz Olsher. It’s music for a spaghetti western that maybe takes place simultaneously in the world of the 1960s retro-futurist TV series The Wild Wild West and that of Jodorowsky’s El Topo as designed by Moebius. On lead single “Can’t Have What You Want, harmonica echos, dusty guitar sounds shimmer, a sound like a guitar processed to sound like someone gently and slowly creating chords to sound like dragging a mallet across the pipes of a xylophone. The leisurely pace is both soothing and haunting and captures the loneliness and grandeur of being a traveler across desert landscapes to fates as yet determined but beckoned by the promise of intrigue and adventure. Listen to “Can’t Have What You Want” on Spotify and follow Raz Olsher on Bandcamp.