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01. CHRIS WATSON - El Divisadero - The Telegraph
02. CHRIS WATSON - Veracruz - The Tunnel
ARTIST
TITLE
El Tren Fantasma - The Signal Man
FORMAT
12"

LABEL
CATALOG #
TO 042EP TO 042EP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/8/2011

2012 repress. Chris Watson presents two special mixes for vinyl from his El Tren Fantasma (TO 042CD) release. A radio program was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, Oct. 30, 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 program in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Now, 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.