Marais La Nuit

Album: Middle Cyclone (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title is French for "Marsh at Night."
  • This half-hour long track is an actual field recording of the environs around a pond on Case's 100-acre farm in rural Vermont. She told Paste Magazine: "I actually went down to the pond and recorded that myself."

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