Born and bred in New Orleans, Bionica is the melting pot of good music. Their influences are apparent in their music and continue to break boundaries to create unclassified genres. Each and every member has a role in the jazz community which in turn gives the audience a fresh breath in the circuit of Indi-Rock. Bionica members James Westfall, Rex Gregory, Sasha Masakowski, Nick Solnick, and Devin Kerrigan all met through making music in the jazz scene in New Orleans and are graduates from the Jazz Studies Dept. at the University of New Orleans. In these times where breaking the mold musically sometimes seems herculean to many, Bionica stands out of the crowd with ease and intelligence. The sound eludes category at every turn, yet still unflinchingly strikes at the core of those who hear it.
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