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Vandever’s trombone leads, meeting Mary Halvorson’s elastic guitar lines in shifting light. Kanoa Mendenhall (bass) and Kayvon Gordon (drums) give the music its frame, letting repetition breathe in a mutable structure. Underneath is a narrative about idealization curdling into dread, the way the drafts and shadows of a “dream house” reveal themselves once you move inside. Vandever has drawn, in part, from Carmen Maria Machado’s inventive memoir In the Dream House (Graywolf Press, 2019).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnother View carries forward the patient, long-tone lyricism and quiet insistence that made Regrowth (New Amsterdam, 2022) special. Vandever reveals explorations of space, vulnerability, and dream-logic on We Fell In Turn (AKP, 2023). 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Their new collaborative LP, A Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams, is out this fall on Brooklyn experimental imprint Northern Spy Records, designed as a reverent companion for psychedelic journeys born from Lidell’s own ketamine therapy sessions, which deepened his belief in art’s healing power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A mind is often found more exposed during psychedelic experiences,” Lidell explains. “Specifically in a therapeutic setting, where trust is key to approach issues and work through events in the way of growth. This is music to support and guide the listening with or without psychedelic sensory heightening.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither Lidell nor Schneider is a stranger to brain-bending timbres. UK-born Lidell cut his teeth as a member of the microhouse duo Super_Collider and later released genre-bending solo albums on Warp Records, spanning abstract techno to neo-soul. 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