Album Notes

There is urgency in my music. I sing honest compositions about the extraordinary circumstances inherent in everyday living. I perform with all of the energy I can muster, as if each were my best or my last. I understand that listeners invest a great deal of time and effort in coming to hear my music and it is my goal to reciprocate an offering full of life and vitality. I appreciate your time and hope my intentions meet yours.
sincerely,
joshua marcus


Philadelphia’s Joshua Marcus has been writing and releasing music of great subtlety and strength for over seven years. \Joshua’s songwriting is powerful and astonishingly honest, evoking beauty from life’s many juxtapositions. Although song themes and arrangements are often diverse, Joshua’s vocal delivery earnestly beckons the audience to engage in the performance with him. His attention to lyrics and acoustic instrumentation- including plucked banjo and finger picked guitar- remain at the forefront of Joshua’s creative instinct.

Joshua Marcus releases ‘make/ believe’ a new full-length solo recording featuring duet compositions for the banjo and upright bass. Two east coast tours have already accompanied this release.

‘make/ believe’ is the second album of Joshua’s solo endeavors. To date, he has also released one full-length and one EP with Like Moving Insects and two live recordings with Fan of Friends. Joshua Marcus has performed over two-hundred shows in the United States, sharing the stage with Okkervil River, Shearwater, Mike Wexler, Buried Beds & others, and appeared live on radio stations such as WPRB in Princeton, NJ and WXPN in Philadelphia, PA, as well as NPR’s All Songs Considered "open mic" section.

"Marcus remembers what it was like before excessive irony made curmudgeons of us all. He remembers that the littlest things – the sound of thunder approaching, the plaintive plucking of a banjo, and of course, the country-informed whine of his versatile voice – can stop us dead in our tracks. Gorgeous stuff." -- Doug Wallen, Philadelphia Weekly