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Kalia Vandever - We Fell in Turn '2023

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We Fell in Turn
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Album name We Fell in Turn
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Date 2023
Genreexperimental
Play time 31 min
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 1720 Kbps / 48 kHz
Media WEB
Size 74 ;99; 266 MB
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We Fell In Turn is the solo debut from Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, and
quartet leader Kalia Vandever. Vandever, who plays with Harry Styles and
Japanese Breakfast, “sculpts her trombone’s golden tones into
dazzling compositions” (Pitchfork), writing music that tends to “dip
you into a feeling or a pattern or a breathing speed, and keep you there”
(The New York Times). In 2022, Vandever released Regrowth, an album that
“features the ecstatic, brilliant melodies that have become
Vandever’s signature sound” (Bandcamp). This spring, Vandever
brings contemplative reflection to We Fell in Turn, a brave and understated work
from an ascending voice in American jazz.
Recorded over three days in upstate New York, We Fell In Turn is improvisational
— a stark palate of solo trombone, voice, effects, and little more.
“My solo process has always been heavily rooted in improvisation,”
says Vandever. “I wanted the process to feel similar to the way I perform.
Lee Meadvin, who engineered and produced the album, had a heavy hand in the
creative process as well. He would dictate prompts before I started improvising
and those pieces ended up shaping a lot of the imagery that comes up throughout
the record.”
Connecting the dots between Jeff Parker’s Forfolks, and early releases
from Grouper, We Fell In Turn is a study of space and patience, embracing
vulnerability in its sparse adornment. At times, the album is reminiscent of
Patrick Shiroishi’s Hidemi, both in its familial inspiration and solo
instrument study, while sharing the ineffable feel of William Basinski’s
The Disintegration Loops — the traces of her trombone folding in on
themselves in an organic loop. Emotionally generous throughout, Vandever acts as
a torchbearer for jazz’s historical yearning for connection.
On We Fell in Turn, Vandever draws inspiration from childhood memories —
events that shaped her approach to love, community, and partnership, and her
maternal homeland of Hawaii. “We were exploring childhood memories,
earliest experiences with disappointment and pain, and my Hawaiian roots,”
says Vandever. “We Fell In Turn came after I titled the track ‘We
Wept In Turn’. Both come from the intangible feeling of waking up from
vivid dreams, particularly the experience of falling right before waking up or
waking up in tears.”
Through this exploration into her heritage, Vandever also found guidance.
“In Hawaiian mythology, ‘aumākua are known as ancestral spiritual
guides that manifest in different forms, whether physical or intangible,”
says Vandever. “My ‘aumākua visits me in my dreams, usually with
a reassuring hug or a reminder of my past. Memories and early experiences seem
to escape me, but find their way back in dreams.” And now they’ve
found their way into We Fell in Turn, Kalia Vandever’s stunning solo
debut. 

1.01 - Kalia Vandever - Recollections From Shore (3:54)
1.02 - Kalia Vandever - Imagine Being Told (2:26)
1.03 - Kalia Vandever - Stillness In Hand (1:58)
1.04 - Kalia Vandever - Mirrored Solitude (3:27)
1.05 - Kalia Vandever - Center (4:16)
1.06 - Kalia Vandever - Temper The Wound (3:45)
1.07 - Kalia Vandever - Teased Traces (2:56)
1.08 - Kalia Vandever - Held In (2:35)
1.09 - Kalia Vandever - We Wept In Turn (3:09)
1.10 - Kalia Vandever - Unfaltering (2:40)

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