Savior Onasis consists of Infinite Ego on guitars (acoustic, electric, fretless, synth, microtonal, and bass), oud, banjo, sarod, sequencers, looping, shop tools, samples, etc. and occasionally the talents of David Zahorsky (guitars, looping, Ebow), Kristian Ball (drums, samples, and noise), Bobby Lemons (vocals); and Detmold (turntables and samples).
Infinite Ego has been inspired over the years by a diverse set of musicians in the world of rock, free-form improvisation, blues, experimental, noise, and a multitude of other genres – Son House, Skip James, Hendrix, Buckethead, Praxis, Vernon Reid, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Ken Rubenstein, Henry Kaiser, Bill Frisell, Naked City, Francis Dhomont, Pierre Henry, and so on.
In the recent past, Ego was the founding director of KronoSequence, a creative arts, improvisation, and multi-media project at the Kansas City Art Institute (2001-2003). Currently Ego is a solo artist, guiding light of Savior Onasis, educator, writer, and doyen of the online creative and experimental guitar collective known as Kronosonic. His music writings have been used by Public Broadcasting (PBS), cited in academic works, and distributed at music schools throughout the world. Prior endeavors (the hybrid rock band Raining Frogs, Operation Bofatron, and earlier incarnations of Kronosonic) were warmly greeted by college radio and Guitar One magazine – which, back in 2001, announced the arrival of a “chops monster” on the international guitar scene.
Savior Onasis has released four albums to date: Enjoy Your Own Damn Symptom, the band’s debut studio album (2004), God, Guns, and Guts, a full-length follow-up studio effort (2004); Move Like You Got A Porpoise, a live and now out of print and rare EP that documented the 2001 Beaux Arts festival at the Kansas City Art Institute; and Red Guard, the documentary pre-history of Savior Onasis.