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![New-In: #restock of what could easily be an all-time favorite on Touch … and train records are our thing here in the shop, and this is that genre’s #darksideofthemoon
Chris Watson _El Tren Fantasma_ (2011), one-part radio play b/w another more trad field recording.
From the one-sheet: “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 […] 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.”
Watson spent a month on board the train with some of the last passengers to travel this route, as part of the film crew working on a program in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Station stops act as chapters. Overheard conversations become phantom characters. Train rhythms become, well, rhythms.
DJ #punishers please perpetually keep this CD in your fuggin “gig” bag, as you’ll get endless repurposing.
Just don’t tell Dr. Watson.
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