Intrepid explorers searching for a regional and emotionally complex folk music. Dispatches and field reports from the journey tell of encounters with large mammals and perilous crossings over seas wrought with emotional upheaval.

Corbin Murdoch began writing songs for this project while studying in Toronto in 2003 and dreaming of the greener pastures of his native Vancouver. The Nautical Miles were recruited during his visits home. During one such visit Jesse Gander recorded their debut EP 'you and your landscapes,' which they released independently in May 2004.

The band is set to release their first full-length record this spring. 'Tell me again how this place got its name' is an expansive thirteen song opus. Teaming up once more with Jesse Gander at the Hive Studios, the band recorded the album over ten days last summer. The record is a cumulation of the band’s work over the last two and a half years; a collection of richly textured songs that tell stories steeped in the natural and emotional histories of the Pacific-Northwest. It features 15 musicians, including Romanian fiddle virtuoso and Golden Globe winner Lache Cercel, and vocalist Debra-Jean Creelman of the acclaimed Vancouver band Mother.

In September they were selected to perform as part of the Folk Alliance Canada roots showcase at this year’s Canadian Country Music Week in Calgary. They will also be appearing on the upcoming Live at the Hive compilation, to be released in 2006.