Marsbeli Kronikak

The double album, written for the 40th anniversary of The Martian Chronicles, consists of 3 large musical pieces (suites). Each of the three is related to an A.I. story. The stories are also the band's creations, projecting the future imagined with A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) from different perspectives.
The Hungarian formation Solaris was originally founded by some school friends in 1980. The band's name was derived from the title of book by SF writer Stanislaw Lem. After they made impression on a talent contest at The Budai Park for a massive crowd (mainly youth) the band was offered an opportunity to make a record.

Tamás Pócs joined the legendary Hungarian Prog band Solaris in 1982, and has been part of their history playing the bass in the three albums they released ("Marsbéli Krónikák", "Solaris 1990" and "Nostradamus Book of Prophecies"), but after the successful Jubilee Concert of 2006, it was obvious that the band wouldn't continue their career, and Tamás wanted more, so he joined with a group of competent musicians and formed Tompox to keep the legacy alive covering the music of Solaris in festivals and small Rock clubs. But the project got out of hand, being that Tompox started writing their own material and around 2011 they had enough musical pieces to release an original album, so mixing 7 original instrumental tracks and a beautiful but unusual cover of "Epitaph" with Zoltan Kiss in the vocals and recorded "Hungarian Eclectic" in 2012…