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WATSON, CHRIS - El Tren Fantasma

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Touch TO:42 Release Year: 2011 Note: fascinating fieldrecording journey based on a one month travel by WATSON through Mexico by train, from Pacific to Atlantic, creating a "Ghost Train" for your imagination; "one of the albums you should hear before you die" (The Guardian) ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info " 'Nimm den Geisterzug von los Mochis nach Veracruz und reise quer durch das Land, von Küste zu Küste, vom Pazifik zum Atlantik. Fühle den Rhythmus der Schienen an Bord des Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (FNM) und die Musik einer Reise, die nun in die Vergangenheit übergeht.' El Tren Fantasma (der Geisterzug) ist das vierte Soloalbum Chris Watson's, das bei Touch erscheint, und sein erstes nach ,Weather Report" (2003), das der englischen The Guardian zu den Alben zählt, die man gehört haben sollte, bevor man stirbt. Chris Watson, einer der führenden Aufnahmekünstler von Naturphänomenen und Klängen in der freien Natur, bearbeitet seine Aufnahmen für Touch zu filmischen Erzählungen. Früher Teil der Electro-Formation Voltaire, hat er sich darauf spezialisiert, die Geräusche seiner Umwelt aufzuzeichnen und zu verarbeiten. Sein neues Album entstand auf einer Reise durch das Herz Mexikos: Als Teil einer Filmcrew des BBC, die Aufnahmen für die Reihe ,Great Railway Journeys" machte, verbrachte er einen Monat im Zug und begleitet diesen auf einer der letzten Reisen - vor mehr als zehn Jahren stellte der FNM seinen regelmäßigen Betrieb ein. Die Aufnahmen, die in dieser Zeit entstanden sind, hat der Künstler nun aufgearbeitet. Sein neues Album erweckt die Fahrt auf den Spuren eines der größten technischen Projekte Mexikos wieder zum Leben und fängt gekonnt Erinnerungen und Stimmen der Menschen, Natur und Umgebung ein. // 'Take the ghost train from Los Mochis to Veracruz and travel cross country, coast to coast, Pacific to Atlantic. Ride the rhythm of the rails on board the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (FNM) and the music of a journey that has now passed into history.' El Tren Fantasma (The Ghost Train) is Chris Watson's 4th solo album for Touch, and his first since Weather Report in 2003, which was named as one of the albums you should hear before you die in The Guardian. A Radio programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 30 Oct, 2010, produced by Sarah Blunt, and described as a thrilling acoustic journey across the heart of Mexico from Pacific to Atlantic coast using archive recordings to recreate a rail passenger service which no longer exists. It's now more than a decade since FNM operated its last continuous passenger service across country. Chris Watson spent a month on board the train with some of the last passengers to travel this route. As sound recordist he was part of the film crew working on a programme in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Now, in this album, the journey of the 'ghost train' is recreated, evoking memories of a recent past, capturing the atmosphere, rhythms and sounds of human life, wildlife and the journey itself along the tracks of one of Mexico's greatest engineering projects." [press release] www.touchmusic.org.uk "We know Chris Watson mostly from his works dealing with sounds from nature, animal wild life and stormy weather. A decade ago he worked as a sound recordist for the BBC who were doing a documentary on the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, a train company with a trail from Los Mochis to Veracruz, coast to coast, through cities and wild life. All of that sound material is now used in 'El tren Fantasma', the ghost train (since it no longer exists). Now this is a truly fascinating CD. I liked pretty much everything I heard from Watson so far, but the mechanical sounds of the train, reminding of course of the very first composition of concrete sounds, 'Etude Aux Chemin de Fer' by Pierre Schaeffer, cut with sounds from the surrounding, makes this a highly narrative piece of music. Its perhaps I love traveling on the train (more than cars and planes), since you easily dream of watching the passing landscape, read a book, listen to music, and while not immediate train ride ahead, I'd be curious to hear this work by Watson on a train anytime soon. Shifting from rusty mechanical train sounds and chirping birds and whispering insects, Watson paints a great sonic picture of the train ride. Very richly detailed sounds: one need only to close their eyes and the trip by train becomes a real trip. This is easily by far one of the best Chris Watson releases I heard so far. Not easy in the man's catalogue of already great works, but this one surely is a masterpiece. Not just a collection of small great pieces, but also the overall narrative aspect of it." [FdW/Vital Weekly]