24/11/24
Sunday
Juan Wauters + Hijos de la Psicodelia (support)
Doors 19:00
Presented by New Berlin Konzerte GmbH
There’s freedom to be found in consistency. Until recently, Juan Wauters may not have agreed
with this statement. As a touring musician and multinational citizen, transience had always come
naturally to him. Circumstance, however, recently prompted him to reconsider the benefits of
staying in one place: “During COVID I discovered / that I like stability,” he muses on the title
track of his new album, “but the world still sees me / as a wandering rebel.” His most
introspective work to date, Wauters’ sixth solo album Wandering Rebel (2023) finds the artist
taking stock of how he’s changed, how the world sees him, and what he wants out of life.
From his early days as a founding member of Queens-based garage act The Beets to his
impressive solo career, Wauters has spent the better part of the last decade on the road. When
he wasn’t touring or recording, he was gathering material, traversing Latin America to write his
2019 Spanish-language opus La Onda de Juan Pablo, then heading North to collaborate with
friends like Mac DeMarco, Homeshake, Nick Hakim and more for 2021’s boisterous Real Life
Situations. Apart from intermissions in his home base of Jackson Heights, Queens, Wauters has
been notoriously hard to pin down.