Volta Do Mar

Instrumental rockers Volta Carry out Mar took their name from the Portugese phrase “turn of the ocean,” a line within a book by José Saramago. Bassists Jeff Wojtsiak and Mike Baldwin, guitarist Phil Taylor, and drummer Tony Ceraoulo all began playing together in a variety of combinations young in Chicago. They were only available in earnest in 1998, with wide affects from jazz to loss of life metal. Their elaborate, jazzy math rock and roll produced its debut on the self-titled EP in 2001, accompanied by a full-length debut, On the Speed of Light or Time, later that calendar year.