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There is more than one artist with this name. 1. Moody French Jazz Musicians, who released their most recent album in 2005. 2. British Indie Rock band formed in 2008. Martell are a brand new band from somewhere between Stevenage, Hitchin and Melbourn (not that one). Influences come mainly from The Cribs, We Are Scientists and Hope of the States, but the sound they make is nothing like any of these. Now gigging extensively, Martell are looking to put out a 2nd EP in the first half of 2009. .

Kristi Martel's sweet presence, stunning vocals, intricate piano rhythms, and fearless songwriting endear audiences nationwide. Featured on NPR, WERS,in Curve Magazine, and voted Rhode Island's Best Alt-Rock Female Vocalist, award-winning songwriter and avant-soul piano diva Kristi Martel grew up in New England and left in 1990 to earn an ASCAP grant and two music degrees (Bard and Mills College) before beginning her touring and recording career. Kristi's piano playing combines her love of blues dissonance and syncopation with her classical training. Her powerful voice is at once sweet and bitter, able to leap and soar, whisper and rattle, expressive of...

July 2001: Lara Martelli went on stage to an awestruck audience in Athens, Georgia - USA. There was an almost religious silence in the small underground club. Lara stood there musically naked with nothing more than an acoustic guitar to dress her song. Stunning Someone asked: “Where in the Hell is She From ???” In 2001 the young singer-songwriter brought her band from Rome, Italy to record her album “Orchidea Porpora”, an album that quickly gained vast attention from both press and audience. The album was recorded entirely at Atlanta's 'temple of rock music,' Southern Tracks. Songs such as “Nebulosa”,...