VOLTA DO MAR

Volta Do Mar biography
Volta Do Mar (not to confuse with The Mars Volta) took their name from the Portuguese phrase "turn of the sea," a line in a book by Jos� Saramago. Bassists Jeff Wojtsiak and Mike Baldwin, guitarist Phil Taylor, and drummer Tony Ceraulo all started playing together in various combinations at an early age in Chicago. They started in earnest in 1998, with broad influences from jazz to death metal. Their intricate, jazzy math rock made its debut on a self-titled EP in 2001, followed, in the same year, by a full-length debut, At the Speed of Light or Day, later that year.

These four serious gentlemen seem to think that post-rock needs a healthy dose of prog-rock drama and technique; fortunately, they have the chops and creativity to make a potentially disastrous approach sound wonderful. Volta Do Mar keep listeners on the edge of their seats with bracingly abrupt dynamics and unconventional melodies that suggest more than a few King Crimson and Don Caballero LPs in the band members' collections. These dudes also wisely realize that singing is best left to the few gifted souls who can genuinely do it properly.


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Discography:
Volta Do Mar, EP (2001)
At The Speed Of Light And Day, studio album (2001)
Volta Do Mar / Murder By Death, split (2003)
3>98, studio album (2005)
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