Spaceheater at Station Bar

spaceheater is a quartet comprising four veteran Hudson Valley musicians: guitarists Rick Warren and Sal Cataldi, bassist Dave Strahl, and drummer April.  Together, they put their effects-driven guitars, thumping bass and polyrhythmic drum assault to work on everything from the heaviest rock to jazz and blues to ambient and industrial sounds, in both originals and obscure covers. The latter spans from early Pink Floyd to electric-era Miles Davis to psych/garage classics like The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” and Link Wray’s “Rumble.” The band regularly performs at popular Hudson Valley venues, including Colony Woodstock, Pearl Moon, and The Station Bar in Woodstock, The Tinker Street Tavern at the Bearsville Theater, West Kill Supply, Green Kill Sessions in Kingston, Snug Harbor in New Paltz, and many more.

spaceheater is an appropriate name for the group as it was birthed during rehearsals in the winter months of 2021/22 at Kingston’s Green Kill art gallery. While jamming there, the group was warmed by space heaters whose fumes may have imbued their work with its unique, hallucinatory bend.  Their sound combines the loose, meandering jams of “St. Stephen”-flavored Grateful Dead with the edgy prog/industrial/space-rock improvs of latter-day King Crimson and Krautrock.  Hudson Valley One called the band: “A powerhouse of genre-defying sounds, blending heavy rock, jazz, blues ambient and industrial influences.”  Kingston Wire recently described spaceheater’s work as “multi-chapter jams that unfold with headbang-able riffs in between spacey, free-form sections with ethereal textures.”