Listen to Mick Harvey's "Turkish Theme" from the Waves of ANZAC soundtrack

"Turkish Theme" is off Mick Harvey's forthcoming album combining two soundtracks, Waves of ANZAC / The Journey, released April 17th on Mute. 

Here's the scoop...
Mick Harvey's new album, Waves of ANZAC / The Journey, features two recent soundtracks to powerful subject matters which he composed, arranged and produced. The first, Waves of ANZAC, looks at actor Sam Neill’s personal family history interwoven with the history of the First World War and the ANZACs through to the modern era. The second, The Journey, is a four-part composition released in support of #KidsOffNauru, a campaign working for the child refugees and people seeking asylum who find themselves in offshore detention.

Waves of ANZAC is represented by 13 tracks selected from the score for the Australian Broadcasting Company’s documentary on forgotten war stories and lives lost. The documentary is a personal history by the actor Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) set against an increasingly divided contemporary political backdrop. Why ANZAC? with Sam Neill (Dir. Kriv Stenders, 2015) is named for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served together in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in World War I, and continued as a military unit until after WWII. The film is a look at this pivotal point in our shared history and the impact it still has on a personal and geopolitical level. Harvey recently examined this period via the prism of a fictional soldier/poet for his collaboration with Christopher Richard Barker, The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War. Listen to the lead track, 'Turkish Theme,' followed by the track listing and contributing players below.

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
1. Turkish Theme
2. Waves of ANZAC
3. First Anniversary
4. The Somme
5. Archives
6. Poppies
7. The Lovells
8. The Cemetery
9. Modern War
10. Vietnam
11. Crete
12. Back at Kiatora
13. Return to ANZAC Cove

The Journey
Part 1: Conflict
Part 2: All at Sea
Part 3: Capture (Not Real Refugees)
Part 4: Hope

Waves of ANZAC players
String section* - Bronwyn Henderson (violin), Lizzy Welsh (violin), Biddy Connor (Viola), Julitha Ryan (Cello) *except “The Lovells” and “Back at Kiatora”
Rosie Westbrook – Double Bass on “The Somme”
Bronwyn Henderson – featured violin on “Turkish Theme” and “Return to ANZAC Cove”
All other instruments by Mick Harvey

The Journey (with The Letter String Quartet)
The Letter String Quartet: Steph O’Hara (Violin), Lizzy Welsh (violin), Biddy Connor (viola), Zoë Barry (Cello)
Mick Harvey - Piano, Organ and Percussion