CHIMERA… It's Us!

Nguyet records a violin riff at 3 a.m. in Hanoi. He sends it via chat.

Michal opens it at 10pm in Rotterdam, throws a synth on it that sounds like it came out of Blade Runner.

Michiko listens to it the next morning in Tokyo and thinks: “This is where we need a battery that can break everything.”

I, in Italy, receive the file the next afternoon and understand that we are building something that shouldn't exist—but will exist anyway.

Cody… well, he flies above everything and everyone!

Hundreds of small recordings. Each from their own home. Each in their own time zone. Sending files, overlaying, arguing over which version to keep. Redoing. Destroying. Rebuilding. And starting again.

CHIMERA is the result of this ongoing construction.

A beautiful challenge. A 5-minute and 45-second instrumental piece that has no vocals because it doesn't need them—the emotions speak for themselves.

Finding four crazy, nerdy musicians like me wasn't easy. I found them scattered around the world. Five people. Five cultures. Five completely different ways of experiencing music. And zero compromise.

8000 miles separate us. But that distance isn't a limitation—it's our manifesto. We're living proof that geography is irrelevant when you have a shared vision: creating music that doesn't exist yet, that shouldn't work, but that rocks precisely because no one's ever dared to do it before.

Listen to It Now (If You Dare)

It's not a background track. It's a journey. Electro-jazz, prog metal, classical music: all together.

LISTEN ON ALL PLATFORMS

And if you want to see how we imagine ourselves playing it—transformed into our personal chimeras—watch the teaser video:

If you get to the end without skipping, you understand who we are.

Who Are 80 Hundred Miles?

We've never met. We're a "scattered" group. The name originally represented the physical distance that separated us (8,000 miles, so... 80 times 100!). But today that distance is just a number on Google Maps.

• Ricky, The Italian Rocker (51): bass and guitars. Raised on '70s and '80s classic rock, he brings analog groove to the digital world.
• Michal, The Dutch Maestro (33): keyboards and effects. An experimental electronics wizard who transforms sound into dreamscapes.
• Michiko, The Japanese Metalhead (28): drums and percussion. Pure energy, surgical precision, and a passion for metal that messes up even from a distance.
• Nguyet, The Vietnamese Fairy (42): violin and guitars. Sweet as sugar until he picks up the bow—then he becomes a sniper rifle.
• Cody, The American Hispanic Lightning (19): guitars. Fingers running at the speed of light, always above the clouds.

Five generations. Five continents. One obsession: creating music that never stops.

Want to know what moves us beyond music? Read Don't Touch Her e Stay Human.