Recorded almost entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, it's 23 tracks blending continuously to unfurl the story of a unique journey around the world.
Monteith performs as a percussionist with the band Foals and he composed and recorded this album during their 2019 world tour. In each of the cities the band performed Monteith would make field recordings of the spaces and streets they visited, whilst on each flight he composed musical pieces on his phone.
When ordered together these two elements conspire to form an Audio-Cartographic record of an extraordinary journey. A world tour with one of the biggest modern bands, sonically reimagined to capture and explain its strange blur of sensations; the aches, pains & loneliness of endless travel along with the glimmers of truth & euphoria found hidden amongst it all.
A globe-spanning musical travelogue turned by circumstance into a hauntological love-song to a way of life indefinitely on hold...
NOTE: the initial long track is the complete album, with the 'flight tracks' only from the long piece provided individually after this.
If you want to just buy the digital, please go to kit's own bandcamp page:
kitmonteith.bandcamp.com/releases
Full Tracklist including field recordings:
1 . Leaving Home
2. Mexico City Mangos
3. Beginnings
4. West Coast: Seattle fish market, Oakland ice rink, LA hotel protest
5. Frozen Time
6. South America: the streets of Bogota, Buenos Aires & Sao Paulo
7. In Parenthesis
8. East Coast: New York Bouncer, Boston street drummers, Detroit bookstore, Milwaukee basketball stadium, Washington 2am street corner, Atlanta bird & Kansas City train
9. Far From Home
10. Europe: Hamburg clock chime, Berlin storm, Barcelona art gallery
11. Lost
12. New Zealand: Auckland street crossing, Birds at dusk, Hare Krishna street dancers
13. The Moments Between
14. Australia: Sydney Botanical Gardens, Byron Bay after show party
15. Hopeless, Hungover & Homesick
16. Oxford: Opening birthday presents with my family
17. Tilt To The Light
18. Bangkok archery range & street market, Osaka Cicadas, Thai aeroplane announcement
19. I Love & Miss You All
20. Ukrainian art installation, The streets of Kiev, Moscow Train Station, Train to St Petersburg
21. Coming Home
22. A final Taxi ride
23. Beyond
released January 15, 2021
All tracks composed and recorded by Kit Monteith
Produced by Kit Monteith
All music & field-recordings made on an Iphone 6s
Modular synthesis on tracks 3, 9, 13, 15 & 21 performed by Jeremy Moors
Tracks 11 & 23 reimagined for piano and performed by Nico Casal.
Mastered by Stephen James Buckley