Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma

November 9, 2011

I skipped Cross Pollination and East African Nocturne but this one sounds unmissable. Any one else looking forward to this?

10 Minute sampler:

http://soundcloud.com/experimedia/chris-watson-el-tren-fantasma

Boomkat blurb:

"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."

Also he gone done released a bangin 12" for da clubs (kind of):

http://boomkat.com/v...ignal-man-s-mix

**mcbpete** · November 21, 2011

On 11/9/2011 at 4:49 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

Also he gone done released a bangin 12" for da clubs (kind of):

http://boomkat.com/v...ignal-man-s-mix

This is actually the one I think I'll get as it contains the two tracks I was most interested when listening to the album samples. I'm a huge fan of field recordings in albums, but mainly if there's been some sort of post processing or harmonic crossover as well (eg the section at 3 minutes in the above clip).