Artist description The style of Eyes Like Mars lies somewhere in this new generation's reflection on the Swing Era-- the sounds, the poetry, the experimentation, and the belief that somehow, inside of this music streaming from another scene of vanity and vice, there is purity, and the world is moving up. You get this in a lot of ways from the band... from the high-step clothes and backroom ambience, from the presence of Gabrielle--on stage she is a mountain of femininity, her voice striving and climbing, as if she were a piece of something larger that hasn't been seen since Billy Holiday.You get it from the words of G.A.R.--his piano, his poetry are a new take on the dissonance of Thelonius Monk, the frustrated passions of Henry Miller, Sylvia Plath. Eyes Like Mars is standing where Kurt Weill, Charlie Mingus, Tom Waits, Soul Coughing, John Zorn, and Kip Hanrahan have been going... a sound that evokes a time in a generation's fantasy-- a time they cannot remember but only reinvent.Please listen to, and enjoy, the sound of Eyes Like Mars.

Music Style lounge, jazz, pop, spoken word, swing, rave

Musical Influences Waits, Mingus, Prima, Portisehead, Zappa, Holiday, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Hanrahan, Kurt Weill

Similar Artists Tom Waits, Portisehead, Soul Coughing

Artist History Formed in 1995 in Seattle, played throughout the NW and west coast, and enjoying strong local radio play of their debut album Act III, scene iv.

Group Members Gabrielle - vocalsG.A.R. - keys, vocals, hornsTom Hemba - percussionBryce Tanner - clarinetNeil Wilson - drumsIan Rashkin - acoustic bassMany special guests - strings, horns, vinyl, guitar

Instruments piano/keys, acoustic bass, drums, percussion, clarinet, sax, trumpet, trombone, guitar, vocals

Albums Act III,iv.

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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