M. Ward - Migration Stories"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

but they don't let themselves sit unheard like that

The original two parts are constructed from sung passages of Middle Eastern musics

"From The Vine Came The Grape" and "The Little Shoemaker"

appearing as The Wilburn Children on The Grand Ole Opry when they were about ten years old

A Boogie has also become one of music's most in-demand collaborators

the future Friedrich Wilhelm II)

Most of the pieces are by saxophonist Marcel Bárta

and many of the songs associated with this era came from earlier decades

Big Baby Scumbag next to underground perennials like Teebs

Hideyo Harada - Lyric Pieces

film soundtrack songs

a popular theme passed down orally by my Iranian grandfather