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- Summary: Recorded during five weeks of travel by train throughout Mexico, El Tren Fantasma is a sonic portrait of the "ghost train" captured by sound recordist and co-founder of Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson.
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- Record Label: Touch
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance
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Jan 4, 2012Brilliantly textured, brilliantly sensitive, unrepeatable by its very nature-this is a great example of a sound recordist's art.
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Q MagazineJan 4, 2012Utterly mesmerizing, psychedelic document of the random music made by machines and nature. [Jan. 2012 p. 127]
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Jan 4, 2012Watson's ability to create whole worlds, entire lifetimes in the listener's imagination, beyond the moment of recording, comes to the fore.
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Jan 4, 2012Watson packaged up the month that he spent riding the train, using his original recordings, adding his own narration, throwing in some interviews, and creating something magical.
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Jan 4, 2012An enticing listen.
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Jan 13, 2012Watson captures (or enhances) sounds in three dimensions, and the way he arranges them invites both immersion and reflection.
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The WireJan 23, 2012A powerful and evocative sound journey. [Jan. 2012, p.64]