Label: Touch – TO:42
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 09 Nov 2011
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Field Recording, Experimental
Tracklist:
1 La Anunciante 4:00
2 Los Mochis 6:29
3 Sierra Tarahumara 5:24
4 El Divisadero 5:34
5 Crucero La Joya 4:58
6 Chihuahua 4:34
7 Aguascalientes 3:26
8 Mexico D.F. 9:14
9 El Tajin 10:16
10 Veracruz 3:11
http://boomkat.com/cds/449402-chris-watson-el-tren-fantasma
A stunning tapestry of field recordings from the master, Chris Watson, with his fourth album appearance on Touch, and his first since 2003's acclaimed Weather Report. Originally aired in a BBC Radio 4 broadcast last year, the sounds that constitute El Tren Fantasma (The Ghost Train) replicate the cross-country, coast to coast, Pacific to Atlantic FNM train route from Los Mochis to Veracruz. This line, a high watermark of Mexican engineering, no longer exists as a passenger route, but Watson beautifully recreates and evokes it using archive recordings. Watson spent a month on board the train with some of the last passengers to travel the route, when he was working as a sound recordist on the BBC TV series Great Railway Journeys. Watson fans will know what to expect: an aural adventure of great beauty, poignancy, humour and vivacity.
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If at all possible, an upload of this would be most appreciated. Thanks for all your work. -- Endorphin
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