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Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon / Seeing Is Forgetting
Kalia Vandever
Seeing is Forgetting combines analog synths (Elori Saxl) with baritone saxophone + bass clarinet (Henry Solomon). Drawing equal parts from American jazz abstraction, New York classical minimalism, and contemporary pop’s sense of harmony, form, and hooks, the album is an exploration in presence,physicality, intuition, and vulnerability.
Elori Saxl is an American experimental electronic composer. Her music has received critical acclaim for its elegant and innovative combination of digitally-processed field recordings with analog synthesizers and orchestral instruments from The Washington Post, The Guardian, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, The Quietus, WNYC New Sounds, BBC Radio, Bandcamp Daily and more. Saxl has composed music for classical ensembles, PBS, The National Film Board of Canada, The Guggenheim, Burton, Patagonia,
Google, Poler, Dove, the New Yorker, This American Life, Public Radio International, SFMOMA, and more. She has performed live around the world both solo and as a quartet including recent dates at Rewire, Dripping, WOS, National Sawdust, Public Records, and opening for Colin Stetson’s North
American tour.
Henry Solomon is an American artist, saxophonist, composer, and producer living in Los Angeles. In addition to writing and producing his own solo projects, he appears on recordings by Paramore, Vampire Weekend, Louis Cole, and Miley Cyrus, and was featured on HAIM’s grammy nominated album Women In Music Pt. 3. He also played baritone saxophone as Lisa Simpson in the Disney+ short “When Billie Met Lisa” featuring Billie Eilish. Henry has performed at Madison Square Garden, Hollywood Bowl, and
Sofi Stadium with HAIM opening for Taylor Swift, and countless festivals across Europe, Japan, and Latin America. His solo albums combine jazz, pop, punk, and electronic, and have received praise in GQ from artists like Thundercat. Henry is working on a number of new albums for release in 2025.
Kalia Vandever (they/them) is a trombonist and composer living in New York. Praised by AllMusic as “a master musician and composer” and “a singular talent,” Vandever’s approach to the trombone is distinctive, defined by their sonorous tone and lyrical voicing. They lean into the challenges of the instrument and allow patience and melody to guide their process.
Vandever’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 (notably featuring guitarist Mary Halvorson) to the synthetic, gauze-like droning ambience of their solo material, their compositional practice draws from their love of both songs and improvisation, creating a landscape of sounds that resonate in the body and hold the listener. This dexterity has not gone unnoticed, with The Wire asserting, “Vandever has never sounded more assured and in control of their many strengths.”
In Bloom, their 2019 debut album, and its followup Regrowth (New Amsterdam, 2022) swiftly established Vandever as a compelling bandleader in jazz circles—a group format they returned to on Another View (Northern Spy, 2025) and still engage in regularly in live performance.
Recognized by NPR as part of the “new class of jazz artists pushing the music forward,” Vandever’s debut solo album We Fell In Turn (AKP Records, 2023) signaled a separate path being explored simultaneously. The album features solo works for trombone, voice and electronics, laying the groundwork for a new sound to be further developed. Mana, Vandever’s new album on Chicago’s International Anthem Recording Co, leans into that development: solo trombone filtered through a well-dialed pedalboard, manipulated live; spare piano as an intermittent anchor; electroacoustic interplay simultaneously echoing and transforming the long-note melodicism of Vandever’s melancholic brass work; head-on, unambiguous, and deeply personal lyricism.
After attending Juilliard, they began touring and performing internationally both solo and with their quartet. Their work as a side-person is expansive, performing with artists ranging from Shabaka, Joel Ross, and Immanuel Wilkins, to Harry Styles, Japanese Breakfast, and Moses Sumney. Vandever has been commissioned to write works for groups and individuals including Tesla Quartet, The Westerlies, Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim, and Hats & Heels Duo and is also a founding member of tilt—a Brooklyn-based collective with Isabel Crespo Pardo and Carmen Quill.
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