M. Ward - Migration Stories
LP
Indie retail exclusive colored vinyl - OPAQUE WHITE. "It was in winter 18/19 - I flew to Montreal to meet with Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, Craig Silvey and Teddy Impakt at Le Studio Du Arcade Fire. It was a fine time with a dream team in a city I love. Winter in beautiful Quebec. Les semaines les plus froides de ma vie.
I had a bunch of demos that were inspired by migration stories I had heard from friends or read in newspapers while on tour in Europe and North America. I remember being struck by the similarities of the stories I heard from both continents and how really only the names of the powerful and the powerless had changed - thinking, "Is this the future? Is this our future?" Some time went by, the stories wove together and I remember them now closer to characters in a dream of how people could treat each other than any kind of front-page news realism. I think music subconsciously - whether writing or listening - is a filter for me - helping to process all the bad news into something new to build from - some records to me are like self-fulfilling prophecies - visualizing change to wish something into being - those records inspired this one." - M. WardTRACKLISTING
- 1 Migration of Souls
- 2 Heaven's Nail and Hammer
- 3 Coyote Mary's Traveling Show
- 4 Independent Man
- 5 Stevens' Snow Man
- 6 Unreal City
- 7 Real Silence
- 8 Along the Santa Fe Trail
- 9 Chamber Music
- 10 Torch
- 11 Rio Drone