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M. WARD / Migration Stories (CD)

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Article number: ATI87735.2

"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

Tracks

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

Label: Anti

Genre: Rock

Release Date: 4/3/2020