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.

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Contemporary rock musician.
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