| Fieldwork / Simulated Progress |
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| Album: | Simulated Progress | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Fieldwork | Added: | Jul 2005 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-09-18 | Pull Date: | 2005-11-20 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Nov 20 | Nov 13 | Nov 6 | Oct 30 | Oct 23 | Oct 16 | Oct 9 | Oct 2 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 15, 2010: | Memory Select: Outsound Summit Preview Reprise | 4. | Jan 27, 2006: | Memory Select Gaudi | |
| 2. | May 09, 2006: | Radio Of Imagination Transitions | 5. | Nov 18, 2005: | Memory Select Reprise | |
| 3. | Mar 24, 2006: | Memory Select Gaudi | 6. | Nov 15, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program Transgression |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2005-09-21 | ||
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An assault. Exciting, heavy-handed jazz trio (sax, piano, drums) that showcases Vijay Iyer's percussive piano attack. Tempos can be slow but the energy is high -- an air of menace on most tracks. There's a "futuristic" feel here, like sci-fi club jazz (albeit kinda violent). The only problem is the monochrome effect of one action-packed track after another; calm interludes like #2 or the end of #6 really stand out. Awesome stuff, though. With former Bay Area dude Elliott Kavee on drums, and For more of the same, see Fieldwork's other album "Your Life Flashes," or the Iyer/Ladd CD, "In What Language." Iyer's solo CDs showcase his softer side but still feature some flashy piano. 1- Slow thundering bassline for darting, stabbing solos. Sudden ending, watch out. 2- Calm jazz walk, but still powerful and a bit dark 3- Slowish and tumbling. (Awkwardly abrupt ending.) 4- Fast and dire 5- Slow feel, very tense. 6- Busy fast chaos. Calms down later. 7- Big and stomping, after "Exorcist" quiet intro 8- Hammering rat-a-tat piano. Fast and crashing. 9- Fast and particularly aggressive. Jumbly group soloing. 10- Fast with a spacey, echoey feel. Sax with reverb. 11- Midtempo and booming. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Headlong | 6. | Gaudi | |||
| 2. | Transgression | 7. | Transitions | |||
| 3. | Trips | 8. | Peril | |||
| 4. | Telematic | 9. | Reprise | |||
| 5. | Media Studies | 10. | Infogee Dub | |||
| 11. | Durations | |||||