I compose, record, and mix my music in a live audience setting.
No pre-recorded loops.
No pre-composed music.
Everything happens right now.

Now, Live at Perfect Harmony is my debut album. What a beautiful audience, so present and attentive, while individually submerged in writing, drawing, moving, listening, and meditation, while I allow my creative juices to flow.

AVAILABLE HERE:
https://markusmars.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-harmony

CREDITS:
All Instruments: Markus Mars
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering: Markus Mars
Artwork: Markus Mars
Venue: Perfect Harmony, Hilo, Hawaii
Endorsement: NS Design

Live at Perfect Harmony

Perfect Opening

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I compose, record, and mix my music in a live audience setting.
No pre-recorded loops.
No pre-composed music.
Everything happens right now.

Now, Alien Origins. Let this psychedelic album trigger all your senses. While starting slow and meditative, the journey soon swirls into universally groovy, booty-shaking rhythmic progressions and trance-like heartbeats that invite you to engage with primal spirit consciousness on a cosmic sound healing journey of body, mind, and soul.

AVAILABLE HERE:
https://markusmars.bandcamp.com/album/alien-origins

CREDITS:
All Instruments: Markus Mars
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering: Markus Mars
Artwork: Markus Mars
Venue: Perfect Harmony, Hilo, Hawaii
Endorsement: NS Design

Alien Origins

Alien Funk

I compose, record, and mix my music in a live audience setting.
No pre-recorded loops.
No pre-composed music.
Everything happens right now.

Now, Fluxx. I composed this album during an art exhibition of multiple local artists in Hilo, Hawaii. Enjoy some Hilo-rious impressions of Transitions from genre to genre and find out why I've been Stickin' Around town until the Early Surf after some Pluck & Play fun on my beloved 5-string electric violin.

AVAILABLE HERE:
https://markusmars.bandcamp.com/album/fluxx

CREDITS:
All Instruments: Markus Mars
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering: Markus Mars
Artwork: Fluxxuashion
Venue: Fluxxuashion, Hilo, Hawaii
Endorsement: NS Design

Fluxx

Pluck & Play

Early Surf

Hilorious

Stickin' Around

I compose, record, and mix my music in a live audience setting.
No pre-recorded loops.
No pre-composed music.
Everything happens right now.

Now, this album came into existence at the Big Island Brewhaus in Waimea, Hawai'i. What a refreshing brew of tasty sounds! I named the tracks after their beers on the menu. It was fascinating to experience how the substance alcohol changes humans' appearance, mood, and behavior.

I used an electronic percussion instrument on some tracks and experimented with samples, such as kick drums and synth sounds. Dance and enjoy yourself. Turn on your subwoofers for some extra substance. 

Subsdance as if no one's watching!

AVAILABLE HERE:
https://markusmars.bandcamp.com/album/subsdance

CREDITS:
All Instruments: Markus Mars
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering: Markus Mars
Artwork: Markus Mars
Venue: Big Island Brewhaus, Kamuela, Hawaii
Endorsement: NS Design
Photo Credit: Laura Avis

Subsdance

Red Sea Of Cacao

White Mountain Blues

I compose, record, and mix my music in a live audience setting.
No pre-recorded loops.
No pre-composed music.
Everything happens right now.

Now, with a stunning length of more than three hours, The Honoka'a People's Theater Experience takes you on an interdimensional journey and psychedelic trip. Submerge yourself in an ocean of sounds and let yourself sink deeper and deeper until you reach the bottom. Once there, meditate peacefully or dance like a Menehune around the bonfire. 

I transformed the Static Noise of Ancient Spaces into an audible superfood. I encountered visions of restless Nightmarchers in front of The Big Picture of the beautiful Honoka'a People's Theater. There is a lot of Tension and Relief packed into this captivating piece of music, so let The Martian touch your soul and join the psychonaut in you for a trippy Psylent Night. The Haunted Theater awaits you.

Come on in and take off into another world far beyond the black and the white.

AVAILABLE HERE:
https://markusmars.bandcamp.com/album/the-honokaa-peoples-theater-experience

CREDITS:
All Instruments: Markus Mars
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering: Markus Mars
Artwork: Markus Mars
Venue: Honoka'a People's Theater, Honoka'a, Hawaii
Endorsement: NS Design
Photo Credit: Steve Roby

The Honoka'a People's Theater Experience

Haunted Theater

Static Noise

Markus Mars enjoyed a whole lotta kava love before allowing the magic from within to manifest itself in the form of this extended five-track live composition. He invites the listener to glide into a liquid trip of warm pads and syncs up the pulse of the soul with subtle beats of multilayered echoes to attempt a wake-up call for world peace. 

Over the years, the classically trained and currently Hawaii-based electric violinist from Austria created his unique style of live time-stretching by layering several tempi, occasionally creating a gentle distraction from what the mind expects. His wide dynamic range leads to occasional input overdrives, which add scratches of good dirt to the otherwise clean-shaven soundscape of modern-day music production. You quickly learn to enjoy this provocative element as it breathes extra life into the recording.

Kava Infused

World Peace Boléro

Hilo Rain

Psychedelic sound waves, composed from scratch on a 5-string electric violin in a live audience setting without using pre-recorded or pre-composed music.

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