Darsombra
Darsombra is trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock from Baltimore, MD. Guitarist Brian Daniloski and video artist/synth player Ann Everton join forces to form a rich, organic sound, and an expansive, symbiotic, audio-visual performance experience. Following releases on At A Loss, Public Guilt, and Exile on Mainstream, Darsombra most recently worked with Translation Loss and Sonic Meditations for their 2016 release, “Polyvision.” Touring relentlessly for over 10 years, Darsombra has touched down on both sides of the Atlantic at music venues, dive bars, house shows, galleries, eateries, festivals, burns, yoga studios, storage units, national monuments, and on the side of the road.
http://www.darsombra.com/bio.html
photo by Matt Condon
Troposhere
TROPOSPHERE is Bob Danyo and FAFU, two musicians who come from different worlds to create their own psychedelic musical universe. Fafu is a hip hop producer, DJ, and guitarist living in Brooklyn with an eye for trippy visuals. Bob is an avante garde multi-instrumentalist who plays everything from cornet to mandolin, fujara, and a myriad of other traditional and not so traditional instruments. Troposphere is influenced by many styles from jazz to trip hop to folk, reggae, and trap music, among others. Their resulting instrumental creations are unique, and are accompanied by psychedelic films that draw the listener and observer deep into their world of transcendental stimulation. Open your third eye and fourth ear and take a trip with the step brothers TROPOSPHERE.
Cora Sone is a light heavy band from Baltimore. This brand new trio features singer-songwriter Abby Becker on guitar, Patrick McMinn on modular synth, bass and keys, and Adam Scott Farkas on drums. They achieve a dreamy, glitched out, stuttering, and utterly unique sound by sending Becker’s lead vocals through the modular synth. The band started with a question: what happens when two people are playing one instrument at the same time? The result is a perennial sound experiment, a playful dialogue grounded in soulful, vibrant rock songs where nobody knows exactly what’s going to happen next. This essential sense of possibility and disruption serves as a vehicle for songs about disenchantment, imminence, and heartbreak in the face of the every day world. Cora Sone is an imagining of alternative futures through sound, irony, and the infinite potential of a little bit of chaos.
Photo By Jessica Keyes
Kenneth Johnston is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist with an emphasis on mouth percussion and American fingerstyle guitar. In creating his unique layered sound, he experiences a meditative process, which he hopes carries into to the minds & lives of his listeners.
https://kennethjohnston.bandcamp.com/
Instrumental, mostly improvisational, sounds are created by handmade instruments, run through effects pedals; Xiphoid-Process is Justin Miller & ryanSmith. Justin (a member of the Immortal Jellyfish) has been building instruments for years. Xiphoid-Process create a wide spectrum of ambient tones, primal rhythms, bowed/droning notes, and harmonious noises. Outside of Xiphoid-Process, ryan has been working on his solo, music project “ryanSmith Thoth”�. Together Justin & ryan make installation art as GamalLama (Baltimore). They have both performed & exhibited at Artscape, among other local festivals.
https://xiphoid-process.bandcamp.com
photo by Blinkofanaye
Woody Lissauer
Woody Lissauer is a lifelong, full‐time musical artist who composes & produces unique songs, informed by a wide variety of musical experiences, performing them from Baltimore to around the world. Fluent on many instruments and styles; Art-Rock, Americana, English folk, French jazz, Russian bardski, Spanish classical, jazz, pop & more, his experimental, anything-goes approach twists them & the studio to new uses, bringing a lifetime of passionate musical & literary exploration & a lifelong obsession with language, languages & aesthetic beauty to his intricate song‐craft.
photo by Wayne Camlin