Darsombra
Darsombra is a heavy psych/rainbow metal band from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. . . or the moon, whichever you prefer. Featuring composer Brian Daniloski on guitar, vocals, and effects, and filmmaker Ann Everton on synthesizer, vocals, percussion, and projections, Darsombra is a true cinematic rock ’n’ roll show. Experienced live, it’s a symbiotic audio-visual-energetic experience that creates a temporary reality, woven by sight, sound, and movement.
Prolifically touring for well over a decade, Darsombra has performed in 20 countries throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, at music venues, festivals, DIY spaces, house shows, galleries, city ruins, cultural centers, record stores, coffee shops, and parks—not to mention their legendary pop-up generator shows at national monuments and forests, or just by the side of the road.
Following releases on labels in the US, Europe, and Asia, such as At A Loss, Public Guilt, Exile On Mainstream, Translation Loss, and Noise Bombing, Darsombra self-released their latest album, 2019’s Transmission.
photo by Matt Condon
It’s Cosmic
It’s Cosmic combines elements of New Age and esoteric spirituality, science, and nature with elements of hip-hop & pop.
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
Miles Gannett
Miles Gannett began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of seven. He crafted his early tunes in the style and spirit of 1950’s rock ‘n’ roll, initially inspired by the movies La Bamba and The Buddy Holly Story. As a teenager, Miles produced strange electronic music and started writing psychedelic songs with mystical themes. In his early twenties he played electric egg slicer, shortwave radio, and spoon-guitar in experimental bands and was also the original lead guitarist for Baltimore world-fusion powerhouse Telesma. Feeling called to pursue songwriting seriously, Miles formed Fractal Cat in late 2011 while recording The Eye in the Dawn on his own in a home studio. The songwriter had released several singles before rounding up “a group of friends” to finish the album and form a band that could reproduce the rich studio sounds onstage. Fractal Cat has released three albums to date, with two of Miles’s compositions, “Tryptide” and “Have I Lost My Way,” becoming regulars on WTMD, the latter named #85 in the station’s top 89 songs of 2017. Miles’s first solo album, a psychedelic country album that features his band The Shroom Pickers and includes performances from guest artists such as pedal steel guitarist Dave Hadley and members of The Seldom Scene, is currently in production and is expected to be released in early 2021. In addition to live performances with Fractal Cat and The Shroom Pickers, you can catch Miles performing solo acoustic or with the new Miles Gannett Trio, which features Eric Selby on drums and Sean Finn on upright bass.
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