Label: Mute
Released 2020
The album features two recent soundtracks to powerful subject matters recorded by Mick Harvey. Waves of Anzac is a 10-track score, created for the ABC documentary on forgotten war stories and lives lost, a personal history by the actor Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) set against a contemporary increasingly divided political backdrop. The Journey is a four-part composition, recorded with The Letter String Quartet, in support of people seeking asylum who have found themselves in Australia's offshore detention program. The piece was composed as a study of the hardships endured by the detainees on Nauru, Manus Island and Christmas Island before and during their internment and as an expression of hope for a humane outcome to their plight. Waves of Anzac / The Journey was composed, arranged and produced by Mick Harvey and mastered by Loki Lockwood at Creepy Hollow.
Track Listing:
- Turkish Theme
- Waves Of Anzac
- First Anniversary
- The Somme
- Archives
- Poppies
- The Lovells
- The Cemetery
- Modern War
- Vietnam
- Crete
- Back At Kiatora
- The Arch
- Return To Anzac Cover
- Part 1: Conflict
- Part 2: All At Sea
- Part 3: Capture (Not Real Refugees)
- Part 4: Hope