MIKE WT ALLEN’S SPACE ELEVATOR

TWENTY PERSON JAZZ-METAL ORCHESTRA

“There's everything you think you know about big band, and then there's Space Elevator” (Vancouver Jazz Fest)

Formed by composer and bandleader Mike WT Allen, the twenty person jazz-metal powerhouse that is Space Elevator exists as a vehicle to deliver Mike's ideas of what big band music can sound like in the modern age.

The music, composed and arranged entirely by Mike, travels between big band jazz, heavy metal, funk, experimental, and the avant-garde with “complex charts [that] combine crunching metal guitars with a billowing horn section and prog-rock keys” (Georgia Straight)

With the very first proto-Space Elevator occurring in 2014 at Mike's graduation recital from Capilano University's jazz program, the band officially debuted with a sold out performance at Vancouver's Fox Cabaret, and has continued to fill venues with each subsequent show! The band has performed on festival stages, packed venues, and most recently put on their Space Jamboree concert at a packed Rio Theatre featuring guest appearances by 10 of Vancouver’s top vocalists!

The band released their debut album on the prestigious Redshift Records label in 2019 and with any luck will be heading back into the studio in 2024!