(WHY DON'T YOU TAKE) THE OTHER SIDE

Like 'Zombies' 2010 - wonderful psychedelic! - Markus Acher (The Notwist) (Why Don't You Take) The Other Side is the long awaited new album by Marsmobil. It's important to understand that when Roberto Di Gioia aka Marsmobil started the recording sessions for his third album, the musical direction was not as evident as it looks now. Last year's "The Other Side EP" gave first insight into the amazing new musical world of Marsmobil. The album includes the single šCrazy Colored Lights› featuring the mysterious The Illusionists with a spoken word part. The video will be released with the single. šOrdinary Boy›, the first radio single of the new album, was featured on the šThe Other Side EP› and proved to be highly successful on national and international radio stations last year. The song šPatience› will be released as a 12" with club versions on Kompakt - featuring remixes by Supermayer aka Michael Mayer and Superpitcher. šMoon Of Dust›, a more indie rock inspired homage to the Eels and the fourth single, will be released later that year including the Marsmobil vs Console and Marsmobil vs Notwist versions. Several additional radio singles (šNever Forget›, šRevolution Girl›, šMonday On A Tuesday›) and remixes (among them a Henrik Schwarz mix of šGone Be My Day›) are planned to be released throughout 2010. Almost every single instrument on the album ranging from the Antonelli childrens organ to mellotron, drums, bass, piano, organs, , acc. and elec. guitars, sitar, percussion, chimes, marimba, cello and even a blues harp was played by Marsmobil's musical mastermind Roberto Di Gioia himself. The first 1.000 copies come with the additional šBlack Album› which includes early songs of the recording sessions. CD includes a 32 pages booklet! The Other Side EPK with footage from the recording sessions, interviews, videos and live videos will be available soon for promotion and booking. The Other Side - a video per month! - All songs of the album will be released step by step as videos on the re-launched MARSMOBIL website from March on till early 2011. A set of posters, flyer and e-flyer is available for promotion. A radio interview tour is scheduled for spring 2010. The album release will be accompanied by The Other Side club tour during May. A second extensive club tour is scheduled for fall 2010. generic radio interview CD will be available early 2010. Station ID's for radio promotion will be available early 2010. A special podcast for internet promotion is available early 2010. This Side - That Side. Who is Roberto Di Gioia? Fact is, he was born in Milano. Fact is, he lives in Germany. Munich to be precise. Fact is, his team is Munich, not Milano. Red & White, not Black & Blue. That could raise a doubt, right? He is reeeeally into food - all sorts, but then try his pasta! Fashion too! Best dressed chicken in town! Not a German thing either! His native tongue? Well - that depends on your native tongue. If you are a German or Italian give it a try! Believe me, he'll be your fellow citizen. But if we really can't locate the man on one side of the Alps or the other, we know at least he is a musician, right? I mean he has recorded albums. Many albums in fact. With big names and on his own. Musicians love the man. One could say he is a musician's musician. Live too. He toured the world. Countless concerts. All true. But then you check his moleskins and you see he is a writer to. Almost every single instrument recorded for The Other Side was recorded by Roberto himself. From piano (of course) to guitar, to bass, to drums to even a sitar - all played by the man himself! And now the jazz tag! Almost a curse!? The root of it all. If you ask Roberto himself he would never limit himself to be a jazz musician. An autodidact for most of his life Roberto taught himself to play the organ, continually progressing over the next years. Whilst still under-aged he was invited by the local jazz heroes to join them live. He was too good to be true. At just nineteen he joined Art Farmer on tour. Invitations to the states followed the same year. It was too good to be true. Almost too easy. With less than twenty Roberto had joined the ranks of well established European and American jazz figures. He became a member of Klaus Doldinger's Passport a band that almost every outstanding German Jazz musician since the 60s had joined at one point or another during their career, like Americans did with Duke Ellington's big band back in the 40s and 50s. jazz musicians had found him, raised him and almost kept him "hostage" for the next twenty years. He played with Till Brönner, Albert Mangelsdorff, Bill Frisell, Woody Shaw, Mel Lewis and countless others. But jazz was only one flavor to savor and Roberto was not all jazz. Emancipation started as a slow process and increased when he founded his own project Marsmobil in the late 90s. He also worked with other non-jazz musicians more and more. Charlie Watts from The Rolling Stones, DJ Hell, The Notwist, Console, Peter Kruder, Christian Prommer, Henrik Schwarz, Max Herre - these are just a few names. So it's not surprising that the theme of the album developed progressively over the last two years and so too did the musical world of Marsmobil. In fact this theme is more than just the theme of the album, it's a life theme: A lifelong struggle to free ourselves from external and internal restriction or at least to question them, not just as a musician but also in our private life. We know these feelings all too well, but do we dare to ask this question? (Why Don't You Take) The Other Side?