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This website & the images herein © 2025  Matthew Mars, all rights reserved. The (p) phonographic rights for the master recordings referenced as The Extended Haiku Remix Project or as Matthew Mars Music are held by  Matthew Mars but copyrights for individual poems or songs revert to their respective authors & songwriters. 

MATTHEW MARS Demos & Ephemera

Consisting of demo recordings, B-sides, remixes, live performances, abandoned album tracks, alternate versions, failed experiments, exotica, esoterica, ephemera, from the very beginnings of my musical career through the present day, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, hi-fi, low-fi, no-fi, pick-a-fi, any-fi, a not insignificant amount of which has never before now seen the light of day. Somebody had to do it.

BREATHING FOR YOU (Mars/Smith), songwriter's demo, live to stereo 2-track recording by Andrew Bush. Mark Smith: Martin D-28, Matthew Mars: vocal. For Kathleen Heitala. ALL OF THIS AWAY (Mars), songwriter's demo, recorded by Gary Tharp at Porter Ranch Sound, Matthew Mars: Qchord & vocal. HAPPINESS (Mars), songwriter's demo, recorded by Gary Tharp at Porter Ranch Sound, Gary Tharp: guitar, keyboards, loops, Jennifer Hardaway backing and lead vocals, Matthew Mars lead vocal. For Jeffrey and Shelley Roden. THE GIFT (Mars/Maybe/Smith) produced by Matthew Mars for the IGLESIA UNIVERSAL sessions, recorded & mixed by Andrew Bush at Grandma's Warehouse, Echo Park. Mark Smith: guitar, Andrew Bush: bass & piano, Steve Kruse: harmonica, Rich Mangicaro: drums, Jennifer Hardaway: backing vocal, Matthew Mars: vocal. Based on a line from "Tent," a poem by Ellyn Maybe. BROKEN BONES (Mars/Smith) produced by Matthew Mars for the IGLESIA UNIVERSAL sessions, recorded & mixed by Andrew Bush at Grandma's Warehouse, Echo Park. Mark Smith: mandolin, Andrew Bush: bass & cajon drum. Rich Mangicaro: djembe, Michael Barsimanto: dumbek, Jennifer Hardaway & Matthew Mars: vocals. For Gale Ford. THIRSTY (Adams/Mars/Masur) songwriter's demo, recorded & mixed by Andrew Bush at Grandma's Warehouse, Echo Park, Andrew Bush: piano, Matthew Mars: vocal. A co-write w/Lauren Adams from a poem by Richard Masur, Lauren's version can be heard on her album of the same name and on the soundtrack to PEACEFUL WARRIOR (2006, Lionsgate). JOAN OF ARC (Mars) produced by Marvin Etzioni, recorded by ____ at Stagg Street Studio, Van Nuys, mixed by Sheldon Gomberg at CoachHouseLA. Joaquin Cooder: drums, Phil Parlapiano: mandocello, _____: pedal steel, ______: doublebass, _______: string arrangement, Matthew Mars: vocal. Recorded for soundtrack of DIRTY BEAUTIFUL, Tim Bartell's debut feature film though ultimately the filmmakers went w/the original version from the SUPERMAN LOSES THE GIRL album instead. ROSETTA STONE (Mars), produced by Andrew Bush & Matthew Mars, recorded & mixed & all instruments (guitars, bass, piano) played by Andrew Bush at Grandma's, Valley Annex, Sherman Oaks, vocal: Matthew Mars. BROKEN BONES (Mars/Smith) remix by Matthew Mars. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (trad., arranged by Matthew Mars), produced by Matthew Mars, recorded by Gary North White, additional recording by Matthew Mars, original backing track mix by Gary North White, vocal overdubs & final mix by Matthew Mars, loop: Gary North White, backing vocals: Matthew Mars, Christian Medina & Tonya Winch, lead vocal: Matthew Mars. THE BRIDGE (Kimmel); demo recorded by Mark Smith; guitar: Mark Smith; vocal: Matthew Mars. ROMEO AND JULIET AND MARGARET MEAD (Bush/Mars/Smith) produced by Andrew Bush & Matthew Mars, recorded by Andrew Bush at Grandma's Warehouse, mixed by Joe Chiccarelli at Grandma's Warehouse, from the sessions for REFRAIN by The Clear. Mark Smith: guitar, Brian Mastalski: fretless bass, Andrew Bush: piano, Lis Lewis: harmony vox, Matthew Mars: lead vocal. QUIET TIME (Melby); inexplicably left off the Superman Loses the Girl EP, "Live at Beyond Baroque) this is a cover of a song by June Melby; Ralf Balzer: loop & drums, Jeffrey Roden: bass, Gary North White: guitar, Jennifer Hardaway & Matthew Mars: vocals. THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME (Gershwin/Gershwin); a duet with Leslie Brenner, American Songbook Project live at Highland Grounds, live mix & board recording by Michael Isenberg (R.I.P.), Brandon Meyer: piano,. TELEVISION (Hardaway/Mars), this is a remix by Gary Tharp of a track from the eponymous SUPERMAN LOSES THE GIRL album. PRECIOUS LORD TAKE MY HAND/SI EL ESPIRITU (Dorsey)/(trad., arranged by Brandon Meyer), American Songbook Project live at Highland Grounds, live mix & board recording by Michael Isenberg (R.I.P.), Brandon Meyer: piano, Matthew Mars, Anna Montgomery, Brandon Meyer & Sally Zito: vocals. QUIET TIME(reprise) (Melby), Matthew Mars & June Melby, a capella, from JUNE MELBY "Live at Beyond Baroque". THE STOLEN KISS (Mars/Smith) live at the Iguana Cafe, mixed and recorded by Dr. Fred Davis (R.I.P), Mark Smith: guitar, Matthew Mars: vocal, FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT (Cohen), performed live at Exile Books & Music, Sherman Oaks, by Andrew Lorand (guitar) & Matthew Mars (vocal). AMAZING GRACE (trad.) American Songbook Project live at Highland Grounds, live mix & board recording by Michael Isenberg (R.I.P.), Brandon Meyer: piano, Leslie Brenner, Anna Montgomery & Sally Zito: choir, Matthew Mars: vocal.


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