When my buddy Allison turned 21, we kept up all night. We struck a couple bars while it was still dark out, however by 1:00 AM, we were tired. Waiting on beverages and choosing which of the 3 other bars downtown Durham, North Carolina used at the time wasn’t the interesting coming-of-age tale it was indicated to be. Allison desired experience and had actually never ever pulled an all-nighter, so we left our bleary-eyed good friends at the dark club they ‘d settled into and roamed the streets. We periodically discovered a bench or a street where we might smoke weed and laugh about how bad we were being, however the night didn’t actually total up to much.

We wound up at the old Durham Athletic Park, the lovely– if rather weak– baseball arena where the Durham Bulls utilized to play. The fence was low enough to climb up, and we comprehended that this was the minute we had actually been looking for all night. We crossed left field to the pitcher’s mound simply as the sun began to come up over our small city. Neither me nor Allison spoke, simply loaded the last of our weed into my little pipeline, and chuckled silently. When the day totally broke, we hopped over the fence and wordlessly strolled back to my vehicle. It was among the last times Allison and I would hang out, something both people should’ve noticed while resting on the brushed red dirt of the baseball diamond.

Brooklyn trombonist Kalia Vandever’s brand-new single, “Temper the Injury,” seems like that dawn. It unfurls patiently, extending into a cavern of reverb. Vandever loops little bits of her improvisation– you can hear her pushing a footswitch sometimes– into a low drone, then dances around it, periodically producing sensational stacked consistencies. There’s a particular type of melancholy the trombone can reveal, and Vandever provides it to us with kindness and grace. It seems like the soundtrack to a stunning farewell, the type of unhappiness you’re grateful to have actually experienced.

You can listen to the track and pre-order the album from AKP Recordings HERE.

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