Salt Marie Celeste

In 1872 a ship named The Mary Celeste was found off the coast of Poutugal. None of the Mary Celeste's crew or passengers were ever found.

Nurse With Wound's excellent "Salt Marie Celeste" sounds what one might expect an abandoned ship would sound like drifting aimlessly in the fog at night. It begins with two droning chords, coming in and out like waves. Gradually through the course of it's 63 minutes, loops are added one by one; creaking boards, strange rattles, a ghostly fog horn. Towards the end, the extraneous loops fade out and leave only the sound of water and the droning chords.

Ominous, lonely and haunting. This is one of the best minimal recordings I've ever heard, and certainly one of my favorite Nurse With Wound releases.