This is the third album of the trilogy on the impact of human activities on the natural world and in this record, as indicated by the title and the cover, the composer of the group Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to the world of islands.
The album will be released on CD and vinyl in both versions to be accompanied by 'Golden Dossier', a book with 50 pages of excerpts from documents, photos, regulations and pictures collected by Meiburg. The vinyl edition includes two bonus tracks and a voucher for downloading the songs of the album and the book in mp3 format and pdf respectively.
Here's the tracklist of 'The Golden Archipelago' and if you visit the site of the Matador here you'll find a first sample from the album .
01 Meridian
02 Black Eyes
03 Landscape at Speed
04 Hidden Lakes
05 Corridors
06 God Made Me
07 Runners of the Sun
08 Castaways
09 An Insular Life
10 Uniforms
11 Missing Islands
Shearwater - Golden Archipelago (live)
Shearwater - Golden
Archipelago (trailer)