B RADICALS

B Radicals is an existential rock-funk band cultivated in the sunshine, star-shine, and soil of the Inland Northwest. Konrad VanDeest and Bradford Little began playing together in 2007 with sounds and writing songs utilizing loops and layers of keys, synth, bass, vocal beat boxing and vocal noise and hand drums. Dave Egly began communicating with the band while living in Japan, drumming, teaching, travelling, enjoying life… and forming the plans for the next step as a trio. With Dave joining the mix and providing the power of the heartbeat through djembe, B Radicals would play house parties, solstice gatherings and (still does to this day…) and eventually landed a few gigs into the Spokane scene, having the opportunities to open up for touring bands in local spots that no longer exist like the Empyrean Coffee House. A kit drummer Nick would join the band on drums for 3 months, before leaving and calling it quits after the first official gig as a quartet on New Years Eve, hosted by local’s Quarter Monkey, at another local favorite and now gone Swamp Tavern. The band having already secured the next gig that evening would quickly reach out to Lancer Roethle, who would jump in immediately and into a 3-hr. gig with no practice also securing a monthly residency to then further cement the sound to be… Lance’s impact on the band is felt in live recordings floating around through those formative years and into the first full length studio album, Free Your Imagination: a Sonifesto (recorded in a live setting at Amplified Wax with sound Engineer Jimmy Hill). Within that time frame the band experimented with various formats, Dave’s percussion ensemble grew, and arrangements including local players to the Spokane scene Nate Distelhorst on Saxaphone and Todd Milne on electric wind instruments and various instrumentation. Many players not mentioned by name sat in and helped us shape our language of sound… and if you go out into the Spokane scene you will find many playing and often inspiring. The band predominantly played as a quartet, experimenting with the right keyboard player like Jed Wagner who would gig occasionally as did Ben Whitmore for a brief period. The band needed a lefty and settled into a 5-piece adding the multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented Joshua Martin. Josh would bring his taste of Detroit funk on clavinet and played keys and performed for a couple years as the key player, before the band moved into its current arrangement. The 2nd studio album, will feature the bands progression and journey and next formation featuring Joshua Martin on the kit. We hope you continue to enjoy as we do continue to explore eclectic compositions, the happy trees of the musical palette, and the world infusions of polyrhythmic riffs…Lets dance together and celebrate these solar rounds as the music takes you on journeys through ethereal realms…

It all began with experiments in the attic…Existential rock, homegrown & cultivated in the Northwest