NIGHTWOOD – CARTA MARINA

Nightwood – Carta Marina (NW 001)
Release format: 12″ vinyl LP & digital download
Release date: October 1, 2009

Track Listing

SIDE A:
1. Heavy Magic is Coming
2. Maritimer
3. Johnny
4. Sunken Mountains
5. Island of Forgetfulness

SIDE B:
6. Skeleton Crew
7. Sturgeon
8. Play the Dishes / Wash the Guitar
9. Gretta at a Window
10. Bright Girls of Summer

CARTA MARINA ||| Like a ship in a bottle, Carta Marina is a carefully crafted rock album teeming with oceanic themes and nautical imagery.

CARTA MARINA is a ten-song album in the truest sense of the word: the release formats are exclusively 12” vinyl LP and digital download with songs that are thematically dense and laden with deep-sea imagery. Carta Marina features drums that thump, elliptical riffs that crash-land rather than end, fuzzy waves of guitar, and voices that call out to each other. Carta Marina’s songs are like sailors lying snug against each other below deck, whispering stories about life at sea, a bottle passed back and forth, adrift amidst oceanic rock and roll and a life that sometimes seems to be at war with its self. Proud Montrealers, Nightwood tapped into the city’s deep well of talent. The album’s artwork is courtesy of celebrated local painter Rick Leong, and the album features production by Martin Horn of Digital Bird Studios and guest musicians such as David Krajic and members of Parlovr.

• Watch the making of the album here!
• Listen to some of the songs on our myspace page!
• Read all about it on Bang Bang!
• More on Nightwood’s website!