Polyband

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PolyBand at Gaudeamus Muziekweek

Jasper Stadhouders’ PolyBand
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Saturday 7 September
TivoliVredenburg – Cloud Nine
22:30 – 00:00

“For years guitarist Jasper Stadhouders has been a sensation on the Amsterdam and international free improvisation scene, but his ambitions extend further. Gaudeamus is glad to help him realize his dreams by commissioning a work to be performed by his PolyBand. With PolyBand he brings together a large group of musician friends of his for a dizzying, unstoppable cocktail of krautrock, mathcore, cumbia and more. The gigantic band keeps switching between tight control and total surrender, in a 90-minute-long hypnotizing composition which could just as easily last 6 hours.…

PolyBand on the Road – Lowlands and Czech Republic

August 19, Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
August 21, Altenburg 1964, Prague, Czech Republic
August 22, Punctum – Krásovka, Prague, Czech Republic
August 23, Festival Obnazeni, Chomutov, Czech Republich

Jasper Stadhouers – guitar, composition
Marta Warelis – keys
Onno Govaert – drums
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – movement
Miguel Petruccelli – bass
Philipp Moser – drums
Frank Rosaly – drums

The PolyBand hits the road starting off big with one of the largest festivals in the Netherlands, Lowlands. Our friends at Sexyland were given the chance to curate an evening and asked PolyBand to headline!…

PolyBand on tour

January 17 – 20

Jeroen Kimman – guitar
Onno Govaert – drums
Miguel Petruccelli – bass
Philipp Moser – drums
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar and composition

17 PolyBand, Jazz a Poitiers, France
18 PolyBand, Le Vecteur, Charleroi, BE
19 PolyBand, Saarbrücken, DE
20 PolyBand, AMR, Geneve, SW

The PolyBand was created by Jasper Stadhouders in 2015 to explore long form compositions focusing on repetition and trance like compositional elements. The ensemble has performed throughout the Netherlands including the festivals Why Not, Transition and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.…