{"product_id":"kalia-vandever-mana","title":"Kalia Vandever - Mana","description":"\u003cp\u003eMana is the International Anthem debut by trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection carries the spirit of their first solo album, We Fell In Turn, while entering a new landscape of spacious songwriting.\u003cbr\u003eMana, which in Hawaiian means “foundational, supernatural, or divine power and strength,” reveals more of their voice and words, drawing from yearning, loss, and bewilderment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVandever’s music has quickly and widely gained traction in the last few years despite the fact that their style has been consistently difficult to pin down, boasting a compositional scope ranging from the palatial modern jazz of their quartet work to the synthetic, gauze-like droning ambience of their solo material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMana leans into the expansion of the latter: solo trombone filtered through a well-dialed pedalboard, manipulated live; spare piano à la the late-career work of Ryuichi Sakamoto; electroacoustic interplay simultaneously echoing and transforming the long-note melodicism of Vandever’s melancholic brass work; head-on, unambiguous, and deeply personal lyricism—a particularly fresh move for the composer…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppropriate for the early riser’s first step into the day or the night owl’s weary and quiet walk home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":57760279986508,"sku":"BLX-14280","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/0634457247314.jpg?v=1781094449","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/kalia-vandever-mana","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}