Tag: Kalia Vandever

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On the opening song to her new album From Where You Came the composer and instrumentalist Kara-Lis Coverdale without the paganism or Germanic bent manages to echo the starkness of Nico's voice on The Marble Index, a rare accolade next to a work that is mostly without peers. 'Eternity' is the only fully-fledged lyric on Coverdale's album, which describes...

After a fulsome embrace of jazz and roots music on her Blue Note debut The Omnichord Real Book - where she laid down her spear and traded sweet grooves with the likes of Joel Ross, Jeff Parker, Ambrose Akinmusire and Brandee Younger while the distinctive chimes of her harp-like instrument also stretched in the direction of seventies go-go and strung-out...

It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...