chris watson “oceanus pacificus” seven inch single record

• 3m
  
  
• 10m

k.k. null / chris watson / z’ev “number one” compact disc

• invocation - kami, (the celestial) jupiter sight wood east spring dawn (8:20)
  
• introduction - man, (the warrior) mars speech fire south summer morning (9:44)
  
• development - woman, (the balance) saturn taste earth center late summer noon (12:03)
  
• climax - madness, (the trickster / fool) venus smell metal autumn dusk / sunset (9:40)
  
• conclusion - demon, (the super-natural) mercury hearing water north winter twilight (8:28)

chris watson “weather report” compact disc

• ol-olool-o (18:06)
  
• the lapiach (18:06)
  
• vatnajökull (18:00)

touch press release...

touch # to:47 cd - 50:08 3 tracks the weather has created and shaped all our habitats. clearly it also has a profound and dynamic effect upon our lives and that of other animals. the three locations featured here all have moods and characters which are made tangible by the elements, and these periodic events are represented within by a form of time compression. this is chris's first foray into composition using his location recordings of wildlife and habitats - previously he has been concerned with describing and revealing the special atmosphere of a place by site specific, untreated location recordings. for the first time here he constructs collages of sounds, which evolve from a series of recordings made at the specific locations over varying periods of time. tracklisting: ol-olool-o -18' 00" a fourteen hour drama in kenya's masai mara from 0500h - 1900h on thursday 17th oct. 2002 the lapaich -18' 00" the music of a scottish highland glen through autumn and into winter during the four months of september to december vatnajkull -17' 55" the 10,000 year climatic journey of ice formed deep within this icelandic glacier and it's lingering flow into the norwegian sea. chris has released two previous solo albums for touch, outside the circle of fire [1998] and stepping into the dark [1996], as well as contributions for samplers and compilations for ash international. his work was also used as source material for the compilation star switch on [202], with contributions from aer, biosphere, fennesz, hazard, philip jeck & mika vainio, as well as two tracks from chris himself. chris is possibly best known for his sound recordings for bbc tv, particularly the "life of..." series written and hosted by sir david attenborough. but his preferred media are cd's and the radio. he has presented several programmes; "a small slice of tranquillity", "nighttime is the right time", "sound advice" and "tyneside dawn", all broadcast on bbc radio 4. chris was previously a member of the popular beat trio cabaret voltaire.

chris watson “el tren fantasma” compact disc

• la anunciante (4:00)
  
• los mochis (6:29)
  
• sierra tarahumara (5:24)
  
• el divisadero (5:34)
  
• crucero la joya (4:58)
  
• chihuahua (4:34)
  
• aguascalientes (3:26)
  
• mexico d.f. (9:14)
  
• el tajin (10:16)
  
• veracruz (5:45)

touch press release...

"el tren fantasma" cd album - 10 tracks - 65 minutes artwork: jon wozencroft cd mastered by denis blackham 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 méxico (fnm) and the music of a journey that has now passed into history. 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. chris watson is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena, and for touch he edits his field recordings into a filmic narrative. for example. the unearthly groaning of ice in an icelandic glacier is a classic example of, in watson's words, putting a microphone where you can't put your ears. he was born in sheffield where he attended rowlinson school and stannington college (now part of sheffield college). in 1971 he was a founding member of the influential sheffield-based experimental music group cabaret voltaire. his sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined tyne tees television. since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. as a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio, chris watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post production.

chris watson “stepping into the dark” compact disc

• low pressure (3:46)
  
• embleton rookery (4:24)
  
• the crossroads (5:02)
  
• river mara at dawn (6:27)
  
• river mara at night (4:59)
  
• a passing view (1:51)
  
• bosque seco (9:03)
  
• sunsets (5:02)
  
• the blue men of the minch (4:51)
  
• high pressure (5:13)
  
• gahlitzerstrom (4:05)
  
• the forest path (4:52)

touch press release...

comes with a a 24-page booklet filled with photography and text. the tracks are the atmospheres of "special places", recorded with the use of camouflaged microphones. low pressure glen cannich, inverness-shire, scotland (57.21°n 04.57°w) 0810h 6 october 1994 embleton rookery embleton, northumberland, england (55.30°n 01.38°w) 0600h 7 may 1983 the crossroads kiedler forest, northumberland, england (55.09°n 02.27°w) 0620h 27 march 1994 river mara at dawn river mara, maasai mara, kenya (01.25°s 35.07°e) 0615h 16 september 1994 a passing view los olivitos, lake maracaibo, venezuela (10.46°n 71.02°w) 2350h 3 april 1991 bosque seco santa rosa national park, costa rica (10.49°n 85.39°w) 0540h 6 april 1995 sunsets breachacha, island of coll, scotland (56.36°n 06.37°w) 2230h 16 may 1994 the blue men of the minch moray firth, scotland (57.30°n 04.15°w) 1400h 30 july 1995 high pressure ravenstonedale, cumbria, england (54.25°n 02.24°w) 0550h 25 february 1994 gahlitzerstrom ummanz, rügen islands, germany (54.32°n 13.11°e) 1740h 5 october 1993 the forest path meallan na ceardaich, glen affric, scotland (57.19°n 04.52°w) 0625h 7 october 1994

“incidental amplifications” compact disc

• chris watson - runway o2e
  
• domenico sciajno - twc
  
• le grand jeu - middle class guilt
  
• camilla hannan - part 3 (edit)
  
• terre thaemlitz - millennial muzak
  
• joe musgrove - broken in search
  
• brandon labelle - off site
  
• aaron ximm - sales_pitch_phase
  
• dzo - untitled
  
• m.rösner - may0105
  
• daniel blinkhorn - resource14
  
• mathieu ruhlmann - rest
  
• blake stickland - brecker (for curd duca)
  
• thembi soddell - watching