Music & Migration - album der støtter BirdLife International ude nu

Det er ikke hver dag at musik og fuglebeskyttelse går hånd i hånd. Ikke desto mindre er det præcis, hvad Music & Migration handler om beretter Martin Holm, som er manden bag idéen. En række musikere har sagt ja til at donere musik til Music & Migration, der har til formål at introducere BirdLife International og Born To Travel kampagnen for et publikum, der ellers ikke ville komme i kontakt med fuglesagen. Læs mere nedenfor fra den engelske pressemeddelelse:


Music & Migration
Various Artists
Label: Second Language
Cat No: SL02

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

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 the most bewitching, immersive contemporary sounds – 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 anything that regularly ‘migrates’, but musicians do seem to have a particular affinity with our feathered friends (just ask The Byrds, Doves, Guillemots, Pigeon Detectives, Black Crowes, et al...) So when the nature conservation organisation BirdLife International wanted to increase awareness (through their Born To Travel campaign) 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.

Co-ordinating the project was Copenhagen-based Martin Holm, who just happens to be one of the founders of a new, boutique record label called Second Language (London-based musician Glen Johnson, of Piano Magic, and musician/writer and Brian Eno biographer David Sheppard, are his colleagues). Martin was eager to merge his two passions; bird conservation and music and, thus, what started as an online awareness promotion via MySpace, evolved into a proper, physical album, populated by the musicians he and his peers love. Music & Migration is the delightful result.

The sophomore release on Second Language (the first, by Glen Johnson's Textile Ranch project, has already sold out), Music & Migration, like all the label's releases, contains only new and exclusive tracks and is released in a super-limited edition, with much attention given to its luxurious, hand-tooled, recycled packaging.

For further information about Second Language and our releases please contact: second-language@hotmail.com
or visit:

www.secondlanguagemusic.com
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