Artist : Chris Watson
Title : El Tren Fantasma
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2011
Date : 11/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Touch
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 59:40 min
Size : 103,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.La Anunciante 04:00
02.Los Mochis 06:29
03.Sierra Tarahumara 05:24
04.El Divisadero 05:34
05.Crucero La Joya 04:58
06.Chihuahua 04:34
07.Aguascalientes 03:26
08.Mexico D.F. 09:14
09.El Tajin 10:16
10.Veracruz 05:45
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59:40 min
"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 MΘxico (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. ItÆs 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 æghost trainÆ 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 MexicoÆs greatest engineering
projects.
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