M Ward Migration Stories

Release date:
April 3, 2020
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"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