Audio Collection
Landing Soon
Power pop/rock with a female lead singer that will pleasantly scorch your ears. Virtuoso musicianship blending guitars,keyboards, cellos and orchestrations bringing a multitude of textures to this musical tapestry. Intelligent lyrics and catchy hooks.
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Anyway | 3:31 | Play |
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Mirror Mirror | 4:07 | Play |
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Why | 5:02 | Play |
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Nothing In The End | 4:36 | Play |
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In Over My Head | 3:34 | Play |
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Heart of Rain | 5:25 | Play |
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Toll of the Bell | 4:33 | Play |
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Things Were Fine | 4:24 | Play |
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Nancy Dear | 4:41 | Play |
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I Still Love You | 3:17 | Play |
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What Can I Do | 4:09 | Play |
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Description
Linda Marso, LIFE ON MARS founder, started her formal classical training young enough that she had to climb up the piano bench for her first classical performance because her feet couldn't reach the floor.
In addition to studying jazz piano, synthesizer programming and composition at Dick Groves in Los Angeles, piano and composition at Juilliard in New York and sound design at New England Conservatory in Boston, she was mentored by a series of some of world's best pianists including Edwin Swanston (Louis Armstrong, Harlem All Star Blues Band) and John "King" Cleary.
Besides LIFE ON MARS' leader, she also played keyboards for legendary guitarist Larry Mitchell, worked and performed with "Toys" in Germany and a solo performance on RAI, Italian television.
She wrote and produced "Landing Soon", the most recent Life On Mars release in addition to engineering many of the sessions at Life On Mars" studio, Mars Bars Records. Marso also wrote articles as the keyboard technical writer for "The Music Paper".
Tracey Blue, who replaced the original lead vocalist in 1991 started singing before she could talk and never stopped. In a current musical menu leaving the listener's palate starving, the range of expression and passion generated by her vocal chords are a ten-course meal.
It is almost unheard of for a vocalist with her power and range to attain her results without professional training, which makes her talent even more extraordinary.
Blue co wrote the lyrics of "Mirror Mirror" and "Why" included in the last release and are one of the arteries of LIFE ON MARS.
Tracey and Linda knew that filling Larry Mitchell's shoes when he relocated to New Mexico was a daunting search but fortunately, were joined by long-time friend, Ray DeTone.
His melodic and emotional style and many of LIFE ON MARS' live performances highlight his phenomenal guitar talents. Ray has been featured in Guitar Magazine, has licensed his music in Japan and to MTV. He is sponsored by VHT Amps, DR Strings, MIT cables, D'Andrea picks and Bag End speakers.
If LIFE ON MARS has never been an average rock band, part of the reason is the addition of cellist, Dave Eggar. Eggar began his career as a Leonard Bernstein scholar at Harvard University making his professional debut performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Eggar was a founding member of Flux and has performed with The Who, Sinead O'Connor, Ornette Coleman and studied with Yo-Yo Ma.
JP Patterson, the backbone of the beats, is known best as the drummer of Dictators and Wild Kingdom and lives up to his nickname "Thunderbolt". He also has over 100 film and television credits.
Bassist Yanko Valdes was born in Mendoza, Argentina , raised in Santiago de Chile and began to play the guitar at the age of seven. He moved to Brooklyn at twelve when his mother won a poetry prize and upon arrival, convinced his mother to buy him an electric bass. By fourteen, he had already performed all over the tri-state area. He ran into the famous Chilean composer Hugo Moraga in a New York subway and began his first formal musical studies. Yanko has performed and recorded with the composer both in N.Y. and Chile as well as double bass with Kiyoto Fujiwara (MG4, Horace Silver, Thomas Chapin). Other teachers include Santi Debriano, Carlos Franzetti, Maria Schneider and Dennis Moorman.
He is a former recipient of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Scholarship, granted by Manny Albam and Jim McNelly. He was a special guest with Los Tetas (EMI Latin) and accompanied them on their South American tour. Upon his return from South America, he received a scholarship from Hunter College to study with Professor John A. Schaffer, retired principal bassist from the New York Philharmonic. As a solo artist, he has composed and produced two albums, Zekondz (2001) and Ideas de Camara (2003)