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Contemporary rock musician and explorer of ideas Art Schop releases his new contemporary rock single “Farm on Mars”, from his upcoming album Starguide.

What would happen if we colonized Mars? “Farm on Mars” zooms in on a lone farmer lured by money and novelty as he tends the planet’s deserted land. Confronted with his isolation, he finds that life is very much the same as it was on Earth, although perhaps even lonelier now that he’s millions of miles away from home.

“I walk the red lime fields / Beneath the cool thin sun / A moon in each hand / of my outstretched arms,” he croons to the universe, who can only echo back with the resonance of faraway, heavenly voices. 

To forge the remote, otherworldly soundscape, Art Schop used various instruments, most notably a microKORG synthesizer/vocoder. This tricky, unassuming keyboard helped to create a hypnotic, pervasive line that evokes the strange monotony of the farmer’s existence. 

“Farm on Mars” is a compelling reflection on isolation, a cautionary tale of hollow motivations as one realizes that, on Mars, “there is nothing but dust” and, worst yet, no one knows your name.

Art Schop is the solo project of Brooklyn-based contemporary rock musician Martin G. Walker. Tackling the subject of outer space, his album Starguide (Spring 2021) reexamines the beginnings of astronomy, reckons with the awareness of the Earth and Sun’s fallibility, and propels us into a hypothetical future as we leave our planet and strike out into the universe.

Farm On Mars

In The Street

Together On Mars

Black Hole

Starguide

Prolog

song inspired by richard wagner and his opera tristram and isolde

With Her Cruel Eye

That acoustic version of "Black Hole" is now available on all streaming platforms!

This is from my forthcoming album Out In Space, which features acoustic versions of many songs from my previous album Starguide.

Listen here and let your mind musically explore the nether regions of the universe 🌌  https://bnd.lc/blackhole

Black Hole (Acoustic)

My new single is out now, an acoustic cover of Elton John's iconic "Rocket Man" 🚀

One of the things I love about Elton John’s original recording of "Rocket Man" is the soaring, epic arrangement. Everything fits and elevates the song so that you feel as if Elton really is going to take off and leave the earth behind. I didn’t set out to subvert that amazing arrangement, but that’s what happened. Plucking away on an acoustic guitar one day, a few notes of Rocket Man suggested themselves and I started working out a version of the song.

Over the course of a year or so the version grew and morphed and shrank until the point at which I decided to record it for the “unplugged” album Out in Space. By this point, the song for me had become a lament, a yearning for connection, a desire to be seen, with an understanding that one can’t ever be fully seen.

Rocket Man

This track is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/artschop4

Ripple in Spacetime

This track is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/artschop3

Childhood's End

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Contemporary rock musician.
Explorer of ideas.
Bearer of beautiful, uncomfortable truths.

Art Schop

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