Artist : VA
Title : Music And Migration
Genre : Folk
Year : 2010
Date : 02/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 21
Label : Second Language
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 75:41 min
Size : 88,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Hauschka - Lipstick Race 03:07
02.David John Sheppard - Small Town 02:57
Raptor
03.Vashti Bunyan - Here (Demo) 03:09
04.Danny Norbury - The Lovers 03:30
05.Xela - Autumn Prayer 04:29
06.Heather Woods Broderick - Suture 01:29
07.Enderby's Room - Tiptoe 03:57
08.The Declining Winter - Red Kite 04:14
09.Ghostwriter - Even Solemnity In The 01:54
Instruments (Farina's Automatic Transla
10.Darren Hayman - Summer Visitors 04:41
11.Gareth S. Brown - Over Biscay 03:43
12.Peter Broderick - Untitled For Violins 04:28
13.Lene Charlotte Holm - Tracing Echoes 02:32
14.ANT - Magpies (Demo) 04:07
15.brave timbers - Let's Never Go Back 03:58
16.Carousell - Black Swallow 05:54
17.Seasons 01:14
(pre-din) - A Night Alone Pt. 2
18.Winter Cabin - Swifts And Swallows 02:56
19.Fieldhead - Open Show 02:56
20.Library Tapes - Another Field 04:06
21.Leyland Kirby - Whiffling 06:20
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75:41 min
The compilation album Music & Migration
really is music for the birds û its 21
tracks inspired by both the miracle of
the migratory impulse and the human-
inspired peril of avian life today. A
showcase for the finest in contemporary
post-classical composition,
idiosyncratic folksong and pastoral
soundscaping, itÆs an album with a
charitable raison d'etre that just
happens to offer 75 minutes of
bewitching, immersive sounds and stands
as an enticing survey of where left-of-
centre music is at in 2010. To put it
another way, the first great compilation
album of the new decade has arrived.
Perhaps itÆs an innate empathy with
birdsong, or the fact that
internationally touring artists enjoy a
natural kinship with the notion of
æmigrationÆ, but musicians do seem to
have a particular affinity with our
feathered friends (just ask The Byrds,
Doves, Guillemots, Pigeon Detectives,
Black Crowes, etc . . .) So when the
nature conservation organisation
BirdLife International (through their
Born To Travel campaign) wanted to
increase awareness about the burgeoning
threat to the breeding grounds and æair
lanesÆ of migratory birds across the
globe, it seemed logical to ask
musicians to be the mediators of the
message.
Co-ordinating the project was
Copenhagen-based Martin Holm, who just
happens to be one of the founders of a
new, boutique subscription record label
called Second Language (London-based
musician Glen Johnson, of Piano Magic,
and musician, writer and Brian Eno
biographer David Sheppard, are his
colleagues). Martin was eager to merge
his two passions; bird conservation and
music and, thus, what started as an
online awareness promotion via MySpace
quickly evolved into a physical album,
populated by the musicians he and his
colleagues love. Music & Migration is
the delightful result.
The sophomore release on Second Language
(the first, by Glen Johnson's Textile
Ranch project, has already sold out),
Music & Migration, like all the label's
releases, contains only new and
exclusive tracks and is released in a
super-limited edition, with much
attention given to its luxurious, hand-
tooled, recycled packaging.
http://secondlanguagemusic.com