The music of chief mart’s may saond a bit strange: At times (very) loud, then quiet , groovy, then ambient, sometimes rock, then experimental, spacey with oriantal flavour…, it could be best described as „instruMENTAL Psychedelic Space Rock“. The, oftenly very long, songs of the band should invite the listener on a colourful journey to the unknown spheres of his mind.
A major enemy of the band ist boredom, so they try to combine as many influences as possible, like 70es Psychedelic Rock, 90es Space Rock, Electro and Ambient music, Progressive Rock of the great 70es dinosaurs, Dub, Post Rock, Drone Rock, Indie Rock…
The chief-sound wouldn’t be possible without bands like: Pink Floyd, Ozric Tentacles, Colorstar, Motorpsycho, Yes, Genesis, the Orb, Mogwai, Tortoise, Trans Am, Masfel, Korai Oröm, GYBE!, Loop Guru, 16 Horsepower, Yo la Tengo, Laika, God Machine….
The story of chief mart’s began in 1998 when three friends from tétange began intense jamming. Nowadays chief has five members: Chris, Fabien,Gerard, Richard und Sylvain. Based on the „normal“ rockband-setup, chief mart’s uses a lot of electronic devices (synths, samplers, drum-computer); as well as Fender Rhodes, Organs, Vibraphone and exotic intsruments like the theremin, flutes, Sitar…
Chief mart’s played quite a few concerts with other luxenbourgish bands, participated at the “Rock um Knuedler 2001” festival, played a totally improvised gig at the « Intro-Café » , and supported international acts like Colorstar, Fly Pan Am , Ghinzu, Grand Piano. At the « Arts n’ Noize» festival in 2000 the band contributed the sounds to the poems of writer Jean Portante.
Late 1999 a first Cdr “Imhotep’s galactic cubism theorie” was released ; to be followed in 2001 with the second self produced album “Cosmic hope indian eskimo fellowship” (still available for 10 € ). In the last months the band installed therir own little homestudio , and worked on new recordings to be released in spring 2003. Chief mart’s also wrote , with their electronic side project “Principal Trade Center” major parts of the soundtrack for the new movie of luxenbourgish director Geneviève Mersch.
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