SL02 Various Music & Migration
TRACKLISTING:
1. Hauschka Lipstick Race
2. David John Sheppard Small Town Raptor
3. Vashti Bunyan Here (Demo)
4. Danny Norbury The Lovers
5. Xela Autumn Prayer
6. Heather Woods Broderick Suture
7. Enderby's Room Tiptoe
8. The Declining Winter Red Kite
9. Ghostwriter Even Solemnity In The Instruments
(Farina's Automatic Translation Machine)
10. Darren Hayman Summer Visitors
11. Gareth S. Brown Over Biscay
12. Peter Broderick Untitled For Violins
13. Lene Charlotte Holm Tracing Echoes
14. ANT Magpies (Demo)
15. brave timbers Let's Never Go Back
16. Carousell Black Swallow
17. Seasons (pre-din) A Night Alone Pt. 2
18. Winter Cabin Swifts And Swallows
19. Fieldhead Open Show
20. Library Tapes Another Field
21. Leyland Kirby Whiffling
The compilation album Music &
Migration really is music for the birds – 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, it’s 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 it’s an innate empathy with birdsong, or the fact that
internationally touring artists enjoy a natural kinship with the notion
of ‘migration’, 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 ‘air lanes’ 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.
300 copies only • SOLD OUT
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