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Surgeon Marta

Los Angeles, California, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2008 | SELF

Los Angeles, California, United States | SELF
Established on Jan, 2008
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"Do You Say Your Prayers At Night?"

Add to this list the indefinable Surgeon Marta (reviewed here last year) and their latest track, “Do You Say Your Prayers?” Beginning with a standard rock ballad opening, and right about when you’d expect the hairy-chested front man to revel in lost love, the note dips and morphs into a solid hooky riff with the sternest female vocals this side of Joan Jett. And, to top it off, the song is about werewolves and transmogrification.

This track screams to be the opening number for a full concept album akin to Tom Wait’s Black Rider. In 4:25, Surgeon Marta stitches so many chord changes and tone shifts together that it sounds like the opening medley to the next great horror musical. This is what I love about music with a bit of theatrics: its ability to spark imagination and smiles. Part of what music should do is provide escape and Surgeon Marta certainly roams the moors free of restraint. - The Novel Sound


"Twisted Video of the Week"

Things are gonna get hairy for this Twisted Music Video Of The Week! Today we bring you Surgeon Marta‘s latest video for “Do You Say Your Prayers At Night”, which features some evil rituals and incantations and a full on werewolf! The song is available to purchase on iTunes.

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/do-you-say-your-prayers-at/id875040003

YouTube: http://youtu.be/miiqesA-QU0 - Bloody Dusgusting


"SOUND AND SPECTACLE"

Sound and Spectacle: Transplant Shane O’Reilly’s theatrical Surgeon Marta headlines Friday’s Day of the Undead festival at TRiP in Santa Monica

By Michael Aushenker
On stage there are diabolical doctors, deranged nurses, wheels flying off an out-of -control gurney set ablaze.

The fervent performances of Chane O’Reilly’s horror-hardcore band Surgeon Marta are 100% rock ’n’ roll fun, but they also appear to be rooted in real-life trauma that shaped the musician and his band.
A native of Ireland, O’Reilly was working as a bus driver in Minneapolis, Minn., before a real-life medical emergency brought him to Santa Monica: his musician brother was dying of cancer.

His brother’s last wish was for O’Reilly to take over his apartment, and as O’Reilly packed some of his sibling’s belonging to ship back to Ireland he realized that was what he wanted, too.

“The couple nights I was here, I walked out to the ocean. It was an ecstatic, profound living postcard,” said O’Reilly, who sings, plays guitar and writes his own music for Surgeon Marta.

O’Reilly didn’t speak directly about ties between his experiences and his art, but credited his father — a lover of opera and classical — for introducing him to music in a time rife with political violence. He recalls a childhood memory of people rushing to assist the victim of a bomb attack north of Belfast, where the family lived briefly, only to find, “literally, a [detached] head on the pavement,” he said.
“These kind of things, they had an effect on people. There’s no getting around it,” O’Reilly said.

When Surgeon Marta performs Friday during the Day of the Undead festival at TRiP in Santa Monica, the band may opt for its traditional show or continue to explore more sci-fi oriented leanings that have come of late, he said. “We’re getting away from the doctors and nurses,” O’Reilly said. “We’re pushing the music, reaching out to the classic influences.”

Surgeon Marta has been grappling with identity. Their influences include late ‘50s to early ‘60s girl groups like the Chantels, the Shirelles, the Supremes, the Ronettes, the Shangri-La’s blend with punk and New Wave acts that came after them, like the Ramones, the B-52’s, the Cramps.

“We’re probably a punk rock Fleetwood Mac,” O’Reilly declared of his five-piece band. “We love three-part harmonies and chainsaws.”
But above all there’s Lemmy — Lemmy Kilmister, that is, leader of the band Motörhead.

To get to Lemmy, O’Reilly takes a storyteller’s path through free-association rambling and well-annotated asides. Exploring verbal detours and taking talking tangents, he shared commentary on the Coen Brothers versus Italian horror directors (“‘The Big Lebowski’ is a classic, but Maria Bava is art!”), bashed Miley Cyrus, praised actor Warren Oates, exalted Antonio Marghareti’s science-fiction/horror classic-in-reverse “Wild Wild Planet,” spoke of Oliver Cromwell and the connection between southwest Ireland and Jamaica, and professed his love for his former home Minneapolis.

“The problem is I just love music— all kinds,” O’Reilly said. “We’re very tenacious, working on finding a unique voice in the music landscape.”
But in Surgeon Marta’s “yin and yang” identity struggle, “We have to keep the Lemmy-esque [showmanship] influence in there,” he said.
O’Reilly and his band have already found believers at TRiP, where O’Reilly has tended bar.

“Chane is an evil genius whose stage show never ceases to amaze me. There is always something different, over the top, unusual and unexpected at a Surgeon Marta show that stems from the darkest corners of that madman’s mind,” said TRiP owner John DeCoster.
“O’Reilly has a fire that burns deep in his heart for everything that is good, pure and authentic in rock n’ roll,” added TRiP booking manager Josh Wiener. “His passion is evident at all times, which makes him an exciting person to be around both on and off the stage.”

For O’Reilly, life in West Los Angeles has been and adventure. While working a long list of odd jobs — bartender, muralist, trompe-l’oeil artist, art installer and remover, truck driver, chauffeur and even briefly as a stunt car driver — O’Reilly kept writing songs and fattening his catalogue before forming Surgeon Marta.

Playing everything from the main stage at Sunset Strip staples House of Blues, Key Club and Viper Room to wild house parties on L.A.’s eastside, Surgeon Marta has engendered a few clashes with people who don’t relate to the spectacle of its dark sense of humor.

The faux-killing of a black cat for Surgeon Marta’s video of “Do You Say Your Prayers at Night?” (a tribute to “The Wolf Man”) landed them in hot water with animal right groups.

Others cringed when, at a show two days after Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, they brought out a King of Pop impersonator on a gurney to the song “Thriller.”

“This was our way of saying, ‘Take care, buddy,’” O’Reilly explained. “We are, first and foremost, huge music fans.”

As for Surgeon Marta’s performances, “It’s [expletive] therapy,” he said. “The world is a [expletive]-up, crazy place.”

Surgeon Marta headlines the Day of the Undead festival at 8 p.m. Friday at TRiP, 1201 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica. Other performers include Debt, Vatican Volume, The Slow Poisoner, Mikey Flores and DJ WiseUP. Call (310) 396-9010 or visit tripsantamonica.com or surgonemarta.com.
Michael@ArgonautNews.com - The Argonaut News


"Something Nice"

I’ve decided to begin adding something akin to reviews on the site. However, reviews are the wrong word as I don’t plan on wasting time writing about stuff I don’t like or, more simply, flat out hate. There is enough sites and writers willing to destroy someone’s hard work.

These updates will be sporadic and as the mood strikes. I will not force myself to say kind words, but that does not mean I plan to polish any boots with my tongue. I’d be untrue for me not to lay in some constructive criticism.

Surgeon Marta – Race to the Red

I love bands that construct a guise around them and have the nerve to follow through.

As I put together one of my episodes I found their track “Send More Cops” on Music Alley. What grabbed my immediate attention was the obvious allusion to the greatest punk rock zombie films of all time. Clearly this needed a bit of a listen.

The track was chaotic and incorporated the same watery guitar sound one would hope to find in a low budget film. The viscous and controlled drumming perfectly balanced the multitude of voices screaming lyrics and the chorus of “dig in”. Typically I’m never sure how to view bands that host a small chorus of singers, but each of the nurses’ voices are distinguishable and, at the same time, unified: Evidence of long practices or a band that has known each other for a good long time.

Finally able to move beyond the fun and energy of Send More Cops, the rest of the album incorporated’s Beat Happening-esq baritone vocal styles in the more mellow and silky Race to the Red, comedy that doesn’t overtake the tone of the album in Iggy this is Jesus, and a starting track to replace morning coffee with Don’t Say Sick (Say Evil).

As I mentioned, I love a band that takes it’s schtick seriously and with integrity. The cd came wrapped in a fantastic blood red mailer with a white cross address sticker and a prescription for enjoyment.

Good music is contagious.

Go to http://www.surgeonmarta.com for more. - Bibliodiscoteque


Discography

Race to the Red LP, available digitally @ iTunes, Amazon and Emusic

Ltd edition digipak CD available directly from www.surgeonmarta.com and all live shows.

”Layla Jade does Hollywood” theme song, available wherever naughty DVD’s are sold or downloaded.

Race to the Red - debut Album
Track List:
Don't Say Sick, (say Evil)
Iggy this is Jesus
Sucking Job
Send More Cops
Race to the Red
Heinrich I Quit
5 Centuries
Dick Parade
Nice Day
Irish Sea

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ON THE
AUTHORITY OF SURGEON MARTA

 In the beginning there was war.  2008 saw the conflict escalate as the
chainsaws lay siege to the poptart citadel.  Bloody concepts raged back and forth while
precious resources like volume control, vocal harmonies, memorable melodies and
lyric builders trembled in fear for their lives.

Many victories were declared but none proved decisive till a
truce was brokered in the fall of 2012.  Respect
was a given but could warring ideologies find a path to co-operation that was
mutually beneficial??  Had the battle of
the sexes finally being resolved??

Turns out the answer is yes AND the best is often saved till
last!!  Now as a combat polished duo Surgeon Marta have created their
strongest material to date and want to share it with you and your friends.  So lineup, sign up and blow the wax of your
D/A converters with some brand new SM
tunes…

Rx, SM

SURGEON MARTA

Vivian Raine – Vocals, Cello, Optigan, Beastmaster

Chane O’Reilly – Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Soulwelder

Official Site - http://www.surgeonmarta.com

YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/surgeonmarta

Twitter – https://twitter.com/surgeonmarta

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/SurgeonMarta


Email – info@surgeonmarta.com

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