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Release Date: 09-06-1997
Label: Real Music
Catalog Number: RM0022-2
Barcode: 46286002222
Musical Style: Uplifting
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Eleventh Hour [04:25]  | 9 | Hidden Crater [06:10] |
| 2 | Corroboree [05:08] | 10 | Children of the World [04:41] |
| 3 | The Gift [03:49] | 11 | Why Violate Every Law of Nature [03:48] |
| 4 | Plateau of the Gods [05:14] | 12 | Geronimo [04:59] |
| 5 | Cellular City [04:09] | 13 | City Jungle [04:04] |
| 6 | Hold On [03:31] | 14 | Amy’s Lullaby [03:41] |
| 7 | In The Den [05:10] | 15 | Cathedral Waltz [05:00] |
| 8 | Live at the Eleventh Hour [03:46] | 16 | Universe in Time [05:22] |
Description:
Mars brings us a spectacular concept album fusing the elements that made albums by Enigma and Deep Forest so popular. A futuristic sound speaks of a world in crisis delivered by strong melodies and a hypnotic rhythm. From the driving force of Cellular City to the delicate Amy's Lullaby, Mars creates an album full of hope.
Biography:
Born in Germany, Mars Lasar (lah ZAHR) moved to Australia with his parents when he was less than a year old. He started playing the piano at age eleven and received training in classical, jazz and composition. At age fifteen he won the Young Composers Award at the Sydney Opera House. It was around this time that he also developed an interest in using computers to create music. Computers were fascinating to me because I could manipulate them to create so many different types of textures, he recalls.
Of his earliest influences Mars admits, tongue-in-cheek, I have to take my hat off to Beethoven, but he also cites such disparate performers as Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, early Van Halen, Alan Parsons, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre as sparking his musical interest. In high school he began dabbling in abstract concrete music with a friend who taped frequencies off the short wave radio and incorporated them into musical pieces, an early form of sampling. Later, Mars joined the Australian band IQ where he was discovered by the President of Fairlight Computers who hired him as the company's in-house composer. I received calls from all over the world from fans of my Fairlight compositions, he says. The exposure led to a series of free-lance commercial and soundtrack work for the likes of Chrysler-Plymouth, Duracell and Kleenex and such television shows as Baywatch, Equal Justice and This is the NFL. In 1987, Mars created the score for Sounds Like Australia, a wildlife film that employed the Fairlight in taking the sounds of nature and shaping and reworking them into music. In 1990, noted producers Hans Zimmer and Trevor Horn brought Mars to America to work on the soundtrack for the Tom Cruise film Days of Thunder. Horn then brought him in to help with an album by new artist Seal, which ended up earning a Grammy nomination.
