Next Show:
August 26, 2009 @ The Bottom of the Hill in SF
With Form and Fate and Shuteye Unison

 

Carta is: Kyle Monday (guitar), Sacha Galvagna (bass and keyboards), Ray Welter (guitars and keyboards), Raj Ojha (drums), and Gabriel Coan (drums), with Alex Kort (cello) and Lorealle Bishop (vocals).

Our most recent show was in San Francisco at the Hotel Utah on March 11, 2009, with Arms and Sleepers and John Vecchiarelli.
We have also recently played with: The Drift, Savage Republic, and Tristeza.

"The Glass Bottom Boat" was released in September 2007 Resonant; it is available for purchase from Amazon and iTunes.

Recorded by Eli Crews (Beulah), the album features contributions from keyboardist Jared Matt Greenberg and bassist Sacha Galvagna, and cello by Alexander Kort (of Lex Records ensemble Subtle), supplementing a core band that featured Kyle Monday on guitars; Ray Welter on guitars, bass, and trumpet; Jason Perez on guitars, piano, and keyboards; Sarah Bell on keyboards, piano, accordion, melodica, bells, and vocals; and Sonny Culbertson on drums.

We were the featured band of the week in mid-March 2007 on the site The Silent Ballet.

The album also garnered it's first great review months before release time.

The next Carta album is named "An Index of Birds" will be out in 2009 on Silber Records. It features the following songs:
alfred m
building bridges
hourglass
small lights
the likeness is undeniable
sidereal
santander
descension
prettier at night
the bank of england
back to nature
who killed the clerk?
the late alfred m

The album features Kyle Monday, Sacha Galvagna, Raj Ojha, Ray Welter, Alex Kort, Lorealle Bishop, and Gabriel Coan. It was recorded in San Francisco and Oakland in 2008 by the band, Eli Crews, and Sean Coleman.

The Glass Bottom Boat
Resonant Records (RESCD026)