SAUDADE: CHINO from DEFTONES & BAD BRAINS Members Start New Band

by Ryan Minic | Apr 28, 2016

Here’s a surprise. Chino Moreno from Deftones has started a new project with members of Bad Brains and Medeski Martin & Wood.

They’re called Saudade. It features Moreno with Dr. Know (Bad Brains), John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood), Chuck Doom (Crosses), and Mackie Jayson (Cro-Mags, ex-Bad Brains). What a wild lineup.

Here’s a stream and download of their first single. It’s an eponymous track dubbed “Saudade.”

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