Kalia Vandever is a Grammy Award Winning trombonist and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her approach to the trombone is distinctive and defined by her sonorous tone and lyrical improvisational voice. In her compositional practice, Kalia draws from her love of songs and improvisation, creating a landscape of sounds that resonate in the body and hold the listener.
Vandever returns to Roulette with her quartet to present selections from her a new body of work, In My Dreamhouse, which explores many forms that a dream house can take and the evolution of a dream house depending on your circumstances and perception of reality. The title is inspired by Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, In the Dream House in which she unpacks her abusive longstanding queer relationship, often describing her circumstance as the “dream house.” Vandever was captivated by the idea of the dream house being fraught with insidious horrors when it could appear ideal to you or others around you.
“Brooklyn-based Vandever has played with Harry Styles and Japanese Breakfast, and has led her own bands, but this solo album finds her opening herself up to unalloyed vulnerability with striking results … If you’ve ever taken flight in your dreams, a track like “Temper the Wound” (and many others on the album) could be a fitting soundtrack.” —NPR
Mary Halvorson guitar
Kanoa Mendenhall bass
Savannah Harris drums
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.