Music & Migration, by Various Artists

Music & Migration

by Various Artists

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1.	Hauschka - Lipstick Race 03:07	buy track
2.	David John Sheppard - Small Town Raptor 02:56	buy track
3.	Vashti Bunyan - Here (Demo) 03:08	buy track
4.	Danny Norbury - The Lovers 03:29	buy track
5.	Xela - Autumn Prayer 04:29	buy track
6.	Heather Woods Broderick - Suture 01:28	buy track
7.	Enderby's Room - Tiptoe 03:57	buy track
8.	The Declining Winter - Red Kite 04:14	buy track
9.	Ghostwriter - Even Solemnity In The Instruments (Farina's Automatic Translation Machine) 01:53	buy track
10.	Darren Hayman - Summer Visitors 04:41	buy track
11.	Gareth S. Brown - Over Biscay 03:42	buy track
12.	Peter Broderick - Untitled For Violins 04:27	buy track
13.	Lene Charlotte Holm - Tracing Echoes 02:32	buy track
14.	ANT - Magpies (Demo) 04:07	buy track
15.	brave timbers - Let's Never Go Back 03:57	buy track
16.	Carousell - Black Swallow 05:54	buy track
17.	Seasons (pre-din) - A Night Alone Pt. 2 01:13	buy track
18.	Winter Cabin - Swifts And Swallows 02:56	buy track
19.	Fieldhead - Open Show 02:55	buy track
20.	Library Tapes - Another Field 04:05	buy track
21.	Leyland Kirby - Whiffling 06:19	buy track

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The compilation album Music & Migration really is music for the birds – its 21 tracks inspired by both the miracle of the migratory impulse and the human-inspired peril of avian life today. A showcase for the finest in contemporary post-classical composition, idiosyncratic folksong and pastoral soundscaping, it’s an album with a charitable raison d'etre that just happens to offer 75 minutes of bewitching, immersive sounds and stands as an enticing survey of where left-of-centre music is at in 2010. To put it another way, the first great compilation album of the new decade has arrived.

Perhaps it’s an innate empathy with birdsong, or the fact that internationally touring artists enjoy a natural kinship with the notion of ‘migration’, but musicians do seem to have a particular affinity with our feathered friends (just ask The Byrds, Doves, Guillemots, Pigeon Detectives, Black Crowes, etc . . .) So when the nature conservation organisation BirdLife International (through their Born To Travel campaign) wanted to increase awareness about the burgeoning threat to the breeding grounds and ‘air lanes’ of migratory birds across the globe, it seemed logical to ask musicians to be the mediators of the message.

The sophomore release on Second Language (the first, by Glen Johnson's Textile Ranch project), Music & Migration, was originally released in a limited edition of 300 CD copies in 2010 and quickly sold out.

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released May 9, 2018

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London-based independent record label, 2009 - present day. www.secondlanguagemusic.com

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