El Tren Fantasma, by Chris Watson

El Tren Fantasma

by Chris Watson

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Steve Russell If you miss this train, I feel sorry, sorry for you Favorite track: La Anunciante.

Max There is a spectacular sense of place, thunderous sound, and excellent mix of effects, The whole album is enormously evocative and nicely programmed. Favorite track: El Divisadero.

Jakob Thiesen industrial music at its best

Shane Hope Painting pictures with sound. Magical journey. Favorite track: El Divisadero.

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1.	La Anunciante 04:00	buy track
2.	Los Mochis 06:29	buy track
3.	Sierra Tarahumara 05:23	buy track
4.	El Divisadero 05:34	buy track
5.	Crucero La Joya 04:58	buy track
6.	Chihuahua 04:34	buy track
7.	Aguascalientes 03:26	buy track
8.	Mexico D.F. 07:15	buy track
9.	El Tajin; El dia y La noche 10:16	buy track
10.	Veracruz 05:44	buy track

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"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.

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released November 4, 2011

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Chris Watson is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena, and for Touch he edits his field recordings into a filmic narrative.

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