“8-BiT DESPERADOS ARE THE NEXT BIG THING IN THE THE BALTIMORE MUSIC SCENE….TODAY WAS LIKE THEIR FIFTH OR SIXTH SHOW, AND THEY’RE ALREADY THIS COSMIC? HOLD ON TO YOUR BRAINS AND HEARTS FRIENDS, ‘CAUSE IT’S GOING TO GET AWESOME”

via @TOM SWISS

8-BiT DESPERADOS IS THE DANCEABLE PUNK FUNK BREWED WHEN BALTIMORE-AREA MUSIC LUMINARIES BAND TOGETHER IN PURSUIT OF HIGH-ENERGY GROOVES. IT IS THE BRAINCHILD OF PEABODY-TRAINED COMPOSER CHRIS MANDRA, KNOWN FOR HIS EXPANSIVE GUITAR WORK IN THE WORLD-FUSION BAND TELESMA, AND HE NOW SWITCHES HIS MISSION TO THE STRUCTURAL, LAYING DOWN LYRICAL, CINEMATIC GROOVES THAT BOOGIE ON A FRETLESS BASS. ELM FOUNDING POWERHOUSE DRUMMER STEVE GORSUCH PROPELS MANDRA’S ELEGANTLY THUNDERING BASSLINES WITH HIS EXPLOSIVE LIVE DRUM N BASS STYLE.

MILES GANNETT, KNOWN FOR THE ECLECTIC PSYCHEDELIA OF FRACTAL CAT, FROSTS THESE GALLOPING RHYTHMS IN BLUESY DAY GLO WITH HIS BEAUTIFULLY EXPRESSIVE LYSERGIC LEAD GUITAR. JASON SAGE, CO-FOUNDER OF TELESMA, RIFFS SOULFULLY AND MEDITATIVELY ON HIS EGYPTIAN DUMBEK, HIS STYLE CRAFTED OVER DECADES PERFORMING SACRED WORLD MUSIC. LONG TIME COLLABORATOR SEAN FINN, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, AND DIGITAL AUDIO SORCERER, SHARES HIS UNIQUE TALENTS AS 8-BiT’S REAL-TIME SONIC MANGLER.

TWO VOICES SURF THIS OCEAN OF ENERGY: SCOTT FRIAS, FOUNDER OF BALTIMORE’S IMPROV JAM INSTITUTION FOUR FLOORS UP, TREATS HIS VOICE AS AN INSTRUMENT, USING AMPLE PROCESSING TO KNEAD TEXTURES AND TWILIGHT MOODS INTO SINUOUS DRONES AND WARM CROONINGS THAT BALANCE THE POWERFUL PUNK-GOSPEL VOCALS OF F*CK POETS’ SARAH LOVELACE SMITH, WHO SCULPTS PASSIONATE LYRICS AND THE RHYTHMS ABSORBED INTO HER BODY OVER TEN-PLUS YEARS OF AFRO-DANCE STUDY INTO WHIPLASH-SERPENTINE FLOWS THAT LEAP AND CATCH AIR AS EXUBERANTLY AS HER BODY DOES ON STAGE.

8-BiT DESPERADOS EXHILARATES AND INSPIRES AUDIENCES WITH LUSH, FERAL, BUT DEEPLY HUMAN HYMNS TO THE POWER OF MUSIC.

Open up! take a ride in our rocketship world!

and there’s

nothing to talk about!

we’re here to dance it out!

we’re here to jump around,

grab the flow, and bliss out in the So-o-ound!

Escape from smallness is feeling oneness!

dancing and singing together how we f**do this!

...Come together & comb out the frayed nerves that are dragging us down