Basic Information
Members: Chelsea Luker, Rob Sipsky, Jon Barber, Joel Davis, Josh Birns-Sprague
Mars Retrieval Unit
Portland, OR
Rock / Space Funk / Genre Hoppers
Bio
Described by many as a band where every member has equal shred capabilities, Mars Retrieval Unit brings it to the table with their fusion of spacey funk, rock and psychedelia. As a unit, MRU defines the word genre-hoppers, and leaves no musical rock unturned and no minds un-spaced. The music is sometimes danceable, sometimes cerebral, with both female and male vocals cutting through a densely crafted wall of sound. With the addition of saxophone to a jam band - you will hear nothing else l...
Comments
StarWing Productions:
Enjoying you spacey sound and the wonderful flute in "Two Sides" Beautiful vocals complete the picture!!!Great style and intrigue here... Wishing you all the best and much continued success.
~Whole Lotta Love~
Destination...
Dec 12
Press
“Honestly, the music on 2010’s “Two Sides” is far too immense to be flattened into bits and shot through speakers under a roof of any kind. Nay, it’s meant to billow unburdened over expanses of rapt humanity. The quintet’s versatility is ridiculously encyclopedic, flooded with virtuosity in progressive rock, jazz, street-gristle funk, thoughtful vamps ’n’ noodles, gape-maw’d psychedelia, dreamscape boogie — every form possible packed by masters into an interstellar jam.”




