Artist description First of all, this is the band nationally known as Life On Mars. There are namesakes, but they ain't us. Life On Mars is pfun crossover (an we mean crossover) music for fun. Yeah, we said it. A bunch of serious musicians, given up on making our way in a specific genre. No. As it turns out, it's more fun to make fun music. Don't groan at fun. It is still very grounded music, but music exhausted from the pathos so prevalant these days. Everyone in our musical funhouse is accomplished on their instruments and writing. But we decided to form as a band to play trans-world groove music. What is that? Eric calls it New World Rock. Huh? We're spun on jazz stations, AAA stations, modern rock stations, and Phish folk and DMB folk seem to love it. What's that mean? Well, in a nutshell (which is hardly enough to contain these musicians) we use a rock foundation to explore music from around the world. Performances are always unique, and include memorable songs ranging from quirky rock to reggae, from swinging jazz to Afropop, from Sufi to surfer. Cruising grooves from around the world in a funky rock-it. We like to call it New World Rock.

Music Style Rock, World, Jazz, stuph that's fun to listen to and fun to play.

Musical Influences From Zappa to Sunny Ade, Klezmer to Sun Ra, Classic rock to classical

Similar Artists From reviews: (honest) David Byrnes meets Zappa with some Dave Matthews, B-52s and Squirrel Nut Zippers on acid

Artist History Based in the Philadelphia area, the band has spent several years honing a performance style of it's own, and developing developing a recording sound which captures as much of the live energy as possible; while still giving good hooks to hang their hats on

Group Members Eric Mars: Lead Guitar and Lead Vocal (Okay, some of you know him as cellist and musicial sawyer Yo-Yo Mars) Robert Pfeiffer: Guitars (and yes, you've probably met him. With Fripp, or whomever, if you remember the kind, patient, brilliant guitarist with the long blonde hair, it's probably Rob) Susan (Sandler) Watts (Yeah the famous Klezmer trumpet player): Trumpet and vocals Marc Stearns: bass and vocals (Say no more) Pete Kiliani: percussion, blues harp, and vocals Jorge Conguerro Reyes: Uh, that would be congas. Our Honduran specialist. Mike Ambs: drums & Russell Gellman: drums (he with the fine snare snap)

Instruments Guitars, trumpet, blues harp, percussion, congas, bass, drumkit. Oh, did we mention vocals?

Albums Proof; Just Add Water; upcoming release: Magnetic influences

Press Reviews We've gotten lots of great press, but our favorite is: Brandywine Valley Weekly 10/98 4 1/2 stars out of 5 (by Lynnette Shelley)

Additional Info We like you. No, really. You seem real nice. I hope others tell you that.

Location Boothwyn, PA - USA

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