CHRIS WATSON / EL TREN FANTASMA
元Cabaret Voltaire（キャバレー・ヴォルテール）／Hafler Trio（ハフラー・トリオ）であり、BBCの音響技師であるChris Watson（クリス・ワトソン）が2011年にリリースした、ミュージック・コンクレートの創始者ピエール・シェフェールにインスパイアされて制作したという脳内サウンド・トリップ感満点の列車フィールド・レコーディング・ミキシング作品!!! 仮想イメージ上にゴースト・トレインが浮かび上がってくる刺激的にトリッピーな内容!!! "Take the ghost train from Los Mochis to Veracruz and travel cross country, coast to coast, Pacific to Atlantic. Ride the rhythm of the rails on board the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (FNM) and the music of a journey that has now passed into history." （Chris Watson） El Tren Fantasma, (The Ghost Train), is Chris Watson's 4th solo album for Touch, and his first since Weather Report in 2003, which was named as one of the albums you should hear before you die in The Guardian. A Radio programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 30 Oct, 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 programme in the BBC TV series Great Railways Journeys. Now, in this album, 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. （Touch） 1. La Anunciante 2. Los Mochis 3. Sierra Tarahumara 4. El Divisadero 5. Crucero La Joya 6. Chihuahua 7. Aguascalientes 8. Mexico D.F. 9. El Tajin 10. Veracruz Format：CD Label：Touch (UK)
