DAVID VERTESI CELEBRATES CARDIOGRAPHY’S 15th ANNIVERSARY WITH ACOUSTIC VERSION OF THE ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM - OUT TODAY VIA TINY KINGDOM MUSIC
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PERFORMING ANNIVERSARY SHOW IN VANCOUVER DECEMBER 7
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Today, David Vertesi is releasing the 15th Anniversary Edition of Cardiography, a new acoustic reimagining of the record that launched his solo career. Originally released in 2010, Cardiography introduced Vertesi’s distinct voice as a storyteller — intimate, vulnerable, and unflinchingly sincere. The album blended lush instrumentation with emotional clarity, earning praise for its melodic craftsmanship and evocative lyricism.
Vertesi returns to these songs with a renewed perspective. Cardiography (Acoustic) strips the material back to its emotional core, highlighting the raw honesty and timeless songwriting that have defined his work ever since. Recorded in a live, minimalist setting, and production by longtime collaborator Daniel Klenner (Peach Pit, Dear Rouge, Hey Ocean!), the new release captures the quiet intensity of Vertesi’s performances and invites listeners to hear the songs as they were first written — simple, direct, and deeply human.
To celebrate today’s release, Vertesi is sharing a live performance video of the acoustic version of album track, “All Night, All Night, All Night”. “I often think about Cardiography as a heartbreak record, but upon re-recording it I realized there’s more to it than that,” says Vertesi. “It sprung from a time when I was learning how to love. The lessons can be painful, but also beautiful. ‘All Night, All Night, All Night’ paints a picture of young love. I wrote this song about sneaking out at night to go sleep over at my then girlfriend’s house and imagining my Dad waking up to discover I wasn’t home. In an album that focuses a lot on heart break, this song means even more, as it is a reminder of what we are fighting for as well as what is lost when things don’t I work out.
“My dear friend Hannah Georgas lent her vocals to the original album and I’m so grateful to have her back again on these acoustic versions so many years later.”
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MORE ABOUT DAVID VERTESI + CARDIOGRAPHY
For fifteen years, David Vertesi has appeared as an integral part of some of Canada’s most exciting indie-rock projects. Whether he’s playing in Hey Ocean!, Shad, Dear Rouge, Hannah Georgas, or Said the Whale, producing Haley Blais, Jordan Klassen, Noble Son, Ashleigh Ball, or Riun Garner, Vertesi brings a uniquely sensuous and brooding sensibility, an intricate sonic depth that multiplies the layers of a song.
In fact, fifteen years ago, Vertesi released his acclaimed debut album, Cardiography. At the time, Line Of Best Fit called the LP “an accomplished debut and a further testament to the ever evolving Canadian music scene,” while Exclaim! noted that "Vertesi's played his cards right" throughout the record.
In his solo work, these dramatic flairs ignite on full display. Across a spectrum of rough-and-tumble and tightly polished sounds, Vertesi emerges as a centre-stage, dusty spotlight balladeer, a close-to-the-chest storyteller as the narrative core of his songwriting revolves in stories of confusion, loneliness, instability, death, and existential ennui. Across 2010’s Cardiography, 2016’s Sad Dad Cruise Ship, and 2020’s Life Ghouls, Vertesi interrogates these somber questions with tender poetry and a sense of humour.
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His latest LP Fictionalized, is the clearest synthesis of his wide-ranging pop philosophy yet. Effectively a concept album on the collective spiraling of the pandemic years through an intensely personal lens, Vertesi crafts the most potent and memorable melodies of his career. With featured performances from a lineup of some of Vancouver’s brightest talents: Jordan Klassen, Haley Blais, Jill Barber, and Sam Lynch, plus co-production from the likes of Jonathan Anderson (Andy Shauf, Aidan Knight), Klassen (Dear Rouge, Jillian Lake) and Daniel Klenner (Peach Pit, Babe Corner), Fictionalized marks a new and defined landscape for Vertesi. As powerful and personal as he’s ever been, as cathartic and kind as he’s ever appeared.
Throughout his work, Vertesi has made clear that he brings an equal command to choreographing lush and buzzing technologic atmospheres of instrumentation or squeezing the naked emotional heart out of a piano, a steady bass drum, the soft rhythm of a guitar, a choir of harmonies. But it’s his own voice that distinguishes his music, a growling inimitable baritone that deepens his playful work and further darkens his more haunted questions. It’s easy to hear why he draws comparisons to names like Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Lou Reed and easy to see why Vertesi has emerged from his collaborative role into a fully formed front-man of his own musical expression.
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CARDIOGRAPHY 15TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE DATES
Dec 7 - Vancouver, BC - The Gallery @ Artech | TICKETS
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CARDIOGRAPHY ACOUSTIC (15th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE) TRACKLIST
01 Mountainside (Acoustic)
02 Gentlemen Say (Acoustic)
03 All Night, All Night, All Night ft. Hannah Georgas (Acoustic)
04 Learn To Run (Acoustic)
05 Cardiography (Acoustic)
06 Broadcasting (Acoustic)
07 Caroline! A Ghost! (Acoustic)
08 Rossland (Acoustic)
09 Soft Skin (Acoustic)
10 Hearts Don’t Break, People Do (Acoustic)
11 Epilogue (Acoustic)