Description
- Migration Stories
- (Digipack Packaging)
- Artist: M. Ward
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 4/3/2020
- LABEL: Anti
- VENDOR: Epitaph, a California Corp.
- DISTRIBUTOR: AMPED
- UPC: 045778773527
- GENRE: Rock
- DESCRIPTION
- "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. Ward
- Tracklist:
- 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
