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Marvin Gardens

on year long sabbatical

About Me

Marvin Gardens has come through several Queens underground rap groups including King of Game , Dopermien and Queens Science before releasing his first solo demo EP on MP3.com in 2001... Since then he's released a string of independently released solo albums, including "A Year in a Day" (2002), "Ophiuchus Serpentarius" (2003), "Cloisters Wall Crawl" (2004) and "Dr. Man's Vinegar" (2006), a joint disc with Faubs and Big Ugly: "The Soul Stigmata Sessions" (2004), and he's currently working on an almost finished collab album with WhoQuestion and a collaborative EP with Project S.A.T.A.N. ... Marv has produced a large number of his own tracks- as well as having utilized production from members of his neighborhood clique including Big Ugly , Nick Rella and Cos . Other artists Marvin has worked with include Analyst , Rench , BattleStar , chemta, The Fun Years , Conflict , Deteque , DJ Rude, Faubs , Icis Nizz , Joe Arcane, Provoke , ReemaBeets , Surgeon General, RapRock , Greg Wolfe , and DJ WhoQuestion ...
The five albums- A Year in a Day, Ophiuchus Serpentarius, Cloisters Wall Crawl, The Soul Stigmata Sessions and Dr. Man's Vinegar
MARV'S PAST AND PRESENT SIDE PROJECTS
KING OF GAME
QUEENS SCIENCE
SOUL STIGMATA
ALL HAIRS CREW
W/ PROJECT S.A.T.A.N.
JAMES SINISI
ARANEIDA (W/ SUSAN ROSS)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/1/2005
Band Website: angelfire.com/cantina/marvingardens/
Band Members:THE ARTIST (LYRICS, PRODUCTION, VOCALS, STRUCTURE): Marvin Gardens a/k/a Dr. Man's Vinegar PRIMARY UNITS: ENGINEER: Ray Balconis EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (on newest album): Nick Rella
Influences:MUSIC: FOLK: Nick Drake OLDSCHOOL HIP-HOP: Rakim NEWSCHOOL HIP-HOP: Ghostface Killah LYRICISM: Bob Dylan PROGRESSIVE/BAND: King Crimson FUSION: Medeski Martin & Wood PRODUCTION: Prince Paul POTPOURRI: Beck SINGER/SONGWRITER: Van Morrison CURRENT LISTENING: Adrian Belew's Side Two FILM/TELEVISION: DIRECTOR: David Lynch CLASSIC B&W FILM: Citizen Kane MOVIE: Apocalypse Now HORROR MOVIE: The Shining GUILTY PLEASURE: 80's Steven Seagal actioners ACTOR: Sean Penn ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett CHARACTER: Al Swearengen BOOKS: AUTHOR: Robert Anton Wilson PERIOD FICTION: Caleb Carr ART: GRAPHIC NOVEL ARTIST: Bill Sienkiewicz OUTSIDE ARTIST: Henry Darger SCI FI: Philip K. Dick ARCHITECTURE/STRUCTURE/FORM: Frank Lloyd Wright GIRLFRIEND/COMPANION: The lovely Susan SPOKEN WORD: ORATOR: My father, former Deacon STRENGTH/WILL: My mother, lawyer, lawfirm partner
Sounds Like:Marvin Gardens sounds like no other rapper- but if he had to be described then mayhaps he'd be an amalgam of Ghostface, Killah Priest, Rakim and King AdRoc- only not really... He labels his brand of ExperiMental Soul Floetry as Hitchcock Lamberghini style...
Record Label: Hitchcock Lamberghini Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

GOLD: UNRELEASED WHOQ DEMO TRACK

Here is an unreleased "demo" track with DJ WhoQuestion- it's actually as final as this track gets- it's even mastered- but was initially intended as a demo.I did some additional production near the en...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:18:00 PST

BREAKTIME

If anyone not in the know has been wondering why I've been inactive as of late- I've been concerning myself with my two latest projects- James SinisiAraneidaI'm attempting to make an album of cov...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:59:00 PST

WELCOME BACK

Just a little thing I added to the studio session last minute- produced by Nick Rella. Track is unmastered as of yet and will appear on the next Marvin Gardens album...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:24:00 PST

BUSY WEEKEND / COVER SONGS (SUSAN ROSS SINGS!)

Barbecue/party- fun. The day before that I did my first "normal" song- a James Sinisi song- though a cover song. Day after the barbecue me and Sue made our first song together- a cover song. The so...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:57:00 PST

THE FUN YEARS INTERVIEWED

The Fun Years- the two droner geniuses who remixed Marvin's "Backspin" for the final track of Dr. Man's Vinegar- are interviewed in this month's Textura: http://www.textura.org/index.htm http://www.te...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:48:00 PST

RAVEN’S BACK UP

Just for you Smithers- listen to the fucker this time, eh?
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:57:00 PST

WHAT’S NEW

1) Drafting vocals for tracks now on Garage Band- this will make the vocals in the studio more realized- and has already helped me out with working up the guts to do some actual "singing".2) Studio ti...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:57:00 PST

WATCH THE GRAVITATOR VIDEO

I’ll have a higher quality Quicktime video up once I figure it out.CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE PAGEThis is a video I made for my song "Gravitator" from the album "Dr. Man’s Vinegar". ...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:30:00 PST

SITE OVERHAUL SOON

Haven't been updating the site lately- but I plan on overhauling it again- gonna rescue it from this dark look (though I may feel tempted to make it dark again once I actually record/post The Raven)....
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:30:00 PST

LISTEN TO THIS HUMDINGER...

..., whopper of a track.The Final Conflict produced by DJ WhoQuestion with lyrics and vocals by me and Project S.A.T.A.N. aka Mike Palmer. God and Satan battling- ambitious. See how it turned out.LIS...
Posted by Marvin Gardens on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:51:00 PST