Martin Graff (Trips for Piano / The Face Zone) 

Martin Graff is a composer-pianist, illustrator, author, spoken-word performer, and extreme-chin-beard enthusiast living in Arlington, Virginia. His album Trips for Piano is a collection of eight evocative piano pieces made to move the soul and light the imagination. Listeners will be swept away by the affecting harmonies, soaring melodies, Graff’s pensive compositional style, and his impassioned playing that conjures rainbows from keys of black and white. 

Marty’s music also appears in his live stage show The Face Zone: Surreal Daydreams to Trip Your Imagination—a set of utterly original spoken-word vignettes with matching art on everything from the stigma of liking scrapple to the meaning of life. The combined result is an unforgettable blend of whimsical images, creative humor, inspiring commentary, and absorbing piano that cuts through the noise of our information-age lives with concise, essential truths certain to entertain as they set mind in motion.