SPACE IS THE PLACE: Shelter

Saturday, March 25, 21:00, entrance € 7 /combi-ticket with Bacchanalia € 11*

* Money goes straight to the musicians!

SHELTER just released their first album on Vandermark’s Audiographic Records with beautiful artwork by the band’s own Heather. They’re currently on tour through Europe now and happened to have a day off in Amsterdam. We’re super glad to be able to present them at such a short notice at our “Space is the Place” concert series for the second time!

– After the SHELTER concert, there’ll be a cumbia party hosted by DE RUIMTE’s own cumbia house band Bacchanalia. Wanna hear SHELTER and dance your buttocks off afterwards? A combi-ticket to both events is just €11.

Created by four major figures from the international scene, SHELTER features the compositional styles of all members of the ensemble. Over the course of an hour, the music presented showcases a wide range of aesthetics: jazz, funk, rock, noise, all played with command and freedom. Though only a quartet in size, SHELTER has an orchestral sound and range of textures at its disposal. The resources of guitar, electric bass, trumpet, tenor and baritone saxophones, Bb clarinet, drums and electronics, are utilized in an array of combinations, and enable the band to shift timbres and density with speed and clarity at any point that it suits the music best.

Though a relatively new ensemble, the members of the group have much history together: Nate Wooley and Ken Vandermark have been working as a duo since 2013 and have released two albums, North By Northwest and All Directions Home; Jasper Stadhouders has been playing in Vandermark’s group, Made To Break, since the spring of 2014, they’ve released four albums since that time, with another due out on Trost in June of 2017; and Steve Heather is part of Stadhouders’ International Improv Ensemble.

After a brilliant tour of Europe in the autumn of 2015, which began at Tilburg’s Incubate Festival, SHELTER met in Berlin in May of 2016 for two performances and an exceptional recording session at Studio H2, based in the old GDR Berlin radio headquarters. The material was then mixed by Steve Heather, and is being issued in a limited, hand numbered, edition of 500 during February, the 10th release on Audiographic, in anticipation of their second tour in Europe that happens in March. Cover art by Steve Heather, design by Fede Peñalva.

This is the sound of the future, now.

Nate Wooley trumpet | Ken Vandermark tenor sax & clarinet | Jasper Stadhouders guitar & bass | Steve Heather drums & electronics