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Bentley was born in the secret Illuminati colony on the dark side of the moon, so, while he was raised in the thin, cold mountain air of Mars, he is not technically from another planet (or any planet actually). It just seems that way to us. Rejected by his Martian adopters at an early age, Bentley fled to the Titan settlement, where he heard music for the first time. (Martians don’t do music, they just click without rhythm. Very sexy for them, annoying to humans.) On Titan he was apprenticed and taught keyboards by Bleeding Gums Murphy, who needed somebody to play chords behind his sax lines that wouldn’t complain. When Murphy was offered an obscure character role on the hit TV show “The Simpsons”, he smuggled the boy with him to Earth in a large steamer trunk. Some say it was the sketchy pressurization of the cargo bay that made Bentley the way he is. Others claim it was Murphy's unwashed underwear in the trunk that did it. Once on Earth he became jealous of someone named 'Lisa' and escaped Murphys’ pedo clutches. He survived by touring backwater southern juke joints and begging for soul food. His highest profile gig was backing Cornell Gunter and The Coasters, but he had to disappear when he found out the hard way that the Martians still had a price on his head. (Don’t worry, that’s all been settled.) He briefly resurfaced in the 80’s bar band “Mike Czech & the 1 2’s”. It was there, in the back alleys of Bucharest and Bombay, that Bentley honed his insidious craft, playing covers 8 shows a week (2 on Saturday) for what amounted to pittance. But there he learned to rechannel and release his budding insanity into Top 40 Trash. After marinating in that fetid wasteland for what seemed like forever he developed a penchant for an unstructured, non repetitive, extemporaneous, stream of consciousness style in his original instrumental music. Offered here on Songtradr is small representation of the product of that penchant (i.e. obsession).