The Grand Tour

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Album Info

Release Date: 2014-07-28

Label: Mute

- 12" square 12-page booklet
- download code stickered to inner sleeve
- hype sticker on front sleeve underneath shrink

The 2nd album from the musician & artist James Brooks
Includes: 12" booklet and digital copy
Instrumental electric guitar compositions that respond to the history and geography of early tourism
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This series of guitar recordings create an imaginary travelogue through western, central and southern
Europe with reference to the historic Grand Tour. This sonic journal takes in particular routes and cities,
in an attempt to explore the beginnings of cultural travel and tourism.
Written in London, United Kingdom
Mastered at Calyx, Berlin, Germany
Booklet: [...], Geometry of Travel I - VIII, 2014, Pencil drawings on archival postcards, 10 x 14.8 cm
Booklet (Centre Spread): [...], Field Recording, 24:36, Pencil drawing on prepared canvas, 60 x 90 cm
Front Cover: [...], Field Recording, 24:36 (detail), Pencil drawing on prepared canvas, 60 x 90 cm
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℗ 2014 Mute Artists Limited
© 2014 Mute Artists Limited
Printed in the EU
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Made in the EU

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