FREE OUTDOOR SUNSET CONCERT at Hadden Park, Kitsilano, 7pm – 8:15pm. Co-presented with Publik Secrets Society.
Donations gratefully accepted. Pre-register online at Eventbrite, or just show up. Bring a blanket and a picnic dinner!
Under the Surface is a Dutch band formed by drummer Joost Lijbaart (1967), guitarist Bram Stadhouders (1987) and vocalist Sanne Rambags (1994). Their debut album released on Challenge Records in 2017 was nominated for an Edison.
Three generations of unique Dutch musicians find each other in a common urge to improvise in which aesthetics, poetry and ensemble play have a major role. The listener is taken to an almost dreamlike new reality.
“An extraordinary and thrilling combination. Dutch vocalist Sanne Rambags is a storyteller who balances between magic and reality.”
(Erno Elzinga – Jazzenzo)
The improvisations of Under the Surface are far from abstract and sound as thoughtful compositions; Rambag’s voice rhymes, whispers and sings over the melody lines of Stadhouders and the subtle percussion of Lijbaart. The atmosphere is made out of silence and reveals the pure kindred spirit communion between the musicians.
The universal language of music took the group to major festivals around the world; to Africa, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. They take the audience into a hidden world in which tenderness, anger, safety, joy, loneliness, peace and sadness play a role and that makes the groups concerts literally a musical journey to the limits of the human soul.
“These three musicians create a palette of musical atmospheres that brightens your ear like a prism.”
(Matti Poels, Musicframes)
ARTIST WEBSITE: https://triounderthesurface.com/