Album Notes

With a steady rhythm and swelling strings, "Two Hearts" opens Martin's sophomore album that won her the 2009 ECMA Pop Recording of the Year and two 2008 Nova Scotia Music Awards: Female Artist Recording of the Year & Pop/Rock Artist/Group Recording of The Year. Produced by Dale Murray (Cuff The Duke, The Guthries, Hayden), Two Hearts offers nine songs made of a hopeful longing. Merging country flourishes with a cinematic folk backdrop, the disc ranges from the choir backed finale of "You Come Home" to the more reserved "Hard Day In June." These stylistic shifts are held together by Martin's songwriting, which plots vulnerability against her strong vocals in manner reminiscent of artists such as Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch.

In 1999, Martin left her home in Halifax, NS with a rough course charted for Austin, TX. Within months she was a regular fixture of the Austin bar scene, performing her own material along side acts such as Wilco and singing backup as part of the retro-rock outfit Young Heart Attack.

In 2002, Martin began work on her debut album, Pretty Things. Recorded by Darwin Smith, the CD contains 12 original songs and features some of Austin’s finest musicians, including Kim Deschamps (Cowboy Junkies), Jon Greene (Torch), Charlie Larkey (Carol King) and Bukka Allen (David Baerwald). With a subdued sound centered around her striking vocals, the songs on the album bare an elegant simplicity derived from the innocence and honesty in their storytelling. After the stateside release of the album, Martin returned to the East Coast where she has continued to regularly perform. Quick to draw attention, her songs were soon after selected for inclusion on the CBC TV productions, Snakes and Ladders and the acclaimed mini-drama, Sex Traffic.

Under her own label “Come Undone Records”, Martin releases her new album “Two Hearts”, touring Canada and parts of the US 2008-2009. For more information on booking and updates please visit www.christinamartin.net.