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A SHELTER IN THE DESERT is the result of a succession of facts, ex-periences, dreams, quests, and among all, the need to find a way to express the feelings in the life of a group of friends; from the com-plex and profound, to the day-to-day and shallow.

Friendship was the primary factor that took 5 individuals to venture in an endless search for an outlet to their feelings, emotions, thoughts and philosophies, to feel and live in a way that would set them free, help them share their vision of the world and most of all, make them feel the euphoria, release and freedom of being able to manifest their feel and thought.

All of those things they shared came to a paroxysm by founding a All of those things they shared came to a paroxysm by founding a band in March 2009 through music, which represents a fundamen-tal part of their lives from a very early age and in many different ways. Thats how they established the proper mean to express all the things they partake to be concentrated in sounds, melodies, at-mospheres and rhythms.

Despite having different influences and music taste, it was not difficult to find a converging point: POST-ROCK, which was never seen as a music genre (being that they do not consider it to be exactly so). For the members of A SHELTER IN THE DESERT it was always so-mething exotic, a music trend that all of them, almost at the same time, discovered by chance, surfing the web, in the need for finding new styles and sounds to take them somewhere else, to satisfy their emotional needs being pursuit in music listening. That was and still is emotional needs being pursuit in music listening. That was and still is Post Rock for them.

For such reason, the sound of A SHELTER IN THE DESERT could be con-sidered among the Post-Rock stream, whose versatility and richness broadens their possibilities at making music, since it contains music forms that go from classical music structures, going through the standard instru-mentation of all ages of Rock music, as the strength and roughness of metal, adding mixtures and rhythms that could have been evolved from jazz, traveling through different measures as in progressive metal, or even instruments that are usual in Folk music, that have not much relation to rock, but help in the venture of creating atmospheres and melodies with distinct colors, beyond rock.

A SHELTER IN THE DESERT can also immerge into experimentation: the challenge to find music inside any material object or even the use of tech-nologies to create sounds. All of this converges in some series of musical landscapes, full of crescendos as in classical music, just like our lifes have their ups and downs.

Due to all this features, A SHELTER IN THE DESERT decided that Post-Rock was the ideal style to create their music and achieve to express however they wanted, since there are no limits soundwise and even tho it can be classified and sorted, the possibilities are endless: it is actually that freedom that appealed to them.

The motives and the inspiration for A SHELTER IN THE DESERT come from the countless branches of art: in all, music, art, literature and visual arts. All of them amalgamate to express one or many things, in different ways and distinct textures; complementing their music with an illustration, a photograph, a video or a text, creating complicity to extract inspiration from all this things. Therefore, no matter their origins and differences, this line up, shares their most sacred likes, and whatever comes to their minds, helping them to find ways to create music.minds, helping them to find ways to create music.

All kinds of styles have passed through the bands ears: from rock in all its forms and subgenres, especially the ones developed in the 90s (alternative, nu metal, grunge, metalcore, shoegaze), the virtuosism, ele-gance and spontaneity of jazz, the magical and traditional sounds of folk, music for classic cinema, of course, classical contemporary music, and so many others throughout the world. All this modalities origined in diffe-rent times and ages, cultures and continents, were imperative to concei-ve music in the way that A SHELTER IN THE DESSERT currently does.

In the year 2010, under the name of [RESOUND], after starting the band and beginning to write music, they released their first self-titled EP, which consisted in six instrumental songs.

During 2010 and the end of 2012, [RESOUND] was performing at seve-During 2010 and the end of 2012, [RESOUND] was performing at seve-ral places in the countrys capital city, such as Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Teatro del Pueblo, El Imperial, Caradura, Welcome Ghosts Festival, Centro Cultural del Bosque, la Feria Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil en el Centro Nacional de las Artes, la Universidad Autónoma Metropolita-na, el Foro Alicia, el Atlántico Club, Libélula Sound Station, Blue Factor, el Metro de la Ciudad de México, among other venues.

By the year 2011, the band presented a sub project, the live score for the south korean movie OLD BOY, from director Park Chan-Wook,as a sonore alternative to the original soundtrack. The movie was featured on the "CINEMA BEAT" cycle from ALAS y RAICES at the National Centre for Art and Culture (CONACULTA), in the Biblioteca Vasconcelos, at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and the BLACK OCTOBER fest in the city of Puebla.

In 2012 the group was part of the bands show organized by the Universi-In 2012 the group was part of the bands show organized by the Universi-dad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco, produced by Gerry Rosado, from Intolerancia Records, who has had a very important pre-sence in massive fests both national and international.

After 2 years of performing as RESOUND the project evolved in all diffe-rent aspects and thats how for several reasons both musical and perso-nal, they decided to change the name to A SHELTER IN THE DESERT, because it sums up what their music means, in essence to themselves, and also what the band tries to reflect, sharing with people this concep-tion: "A shelter in the desert of our lives. A vision of music as a mean of sanity for the soul, and a portrait of the condition of the human spirit".

Thus, the new stage had begun. A SHELTER IN THE DESERT released their first album titled MAZE OF MEMORIES, produced by themselves and independently. The album constructed by 5 tracks, was published di-gitally on August 24 in 2012, and in very few weeks, without the mention or post of any massive media, it was surprisingly for everyone that it was favorably reviewed by Post Rock sites in Europe, places like Germany, Spain, Bulgary, Russia, Poland, Rumany, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium were paying attention to the album. Also the band was invi-and Belgium were paying attention to the album. Also the band was invi-ted to international compilations such as Oxide-tones: The Grass Is Always Greener, Destination: Post-rock Indonesia, and Ribs Out Compila-tion II y III.

Months later, as a result of this well reception by the European audience, A SHELTER IN THE DESERT was signed by the label OXIDE-TONES in Germany (label of great bands such as Mooncake, Collapse Under The Empire, The Echelon Effect, This Patch of Sky, Canyons of Static and La-birinto), who published another physical copy of the album for Europe, which contains an extra track, therefore making it into their first LP. Maze of Memories was also licensed and distributed in Spain by the label ALOUD MUSIC LTD, and in japan under LINUS RECORDS.

After the unexpected success of their debut LP, the one recorded only After the unexpected success of their debut LP, the one recorded only with the idea of making a demo to show their music, and becoming an LP edited in Europe, A SHELTER IN THE DESERT stars planning to take their music beyond borders, at the same time working on an EP that will contain alternative versions of movie scores, including work of composers as recognized as Hans Zimmer, John Murphy and Clint Mansell.

At the end of 2013 ASITD forms part of "Ode To An Unspoken Move-At the end of 2013 ASITD forms part of "Ode To An Unspoken Move-ment", an international compiled of unreleased music, launched jointly by Oxide-Tones and TheSirensSound, featuring artists like Collapse Under The Empire, Human Pyramids, My Education, This Patch of Sky, etc.)

"A total of 5 tracks all over 8 minutes long average, creating a music that might as well be part of the soundtrack of any hollywood flick, with clear influences from the japanese band MONO in their most emotional bits or the crescendos of Godspeed You! Black Emperor"

Keep An Open MindSpain

"A Shelter In The Desert adheres to the most emotional post-rock guidelines, and debuts with Maze of Memories. A plaque that features colors, with ranges, with nuances and enough strength to make vibrate the soul. "

-David Del Aguila-ColapsoMéxico

A SHELTE IN THE DESERT IS:

Alejandro Rodriguez - DrumsAnwar Rodríguez - BassErick Gonzalez - PianoPepe Rincon - Guitar

Oscar Rodríguez - Guitar

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