| Iyer, Vijay / Tragicomic |
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| Album: | Tragicomic | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Iyer, Vijay | Added: | Jan 2009 | |
| Label: | Sunnyside Communications | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-04-19 | Pull Date: | 2009-06-21 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jun 21 | Jun 14 | Jun 7 | May 24 | May 10 | Apr 26 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 20, 2016: | Rebop Age Of Everything | 4. | Jun 20, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum: Weekend Edition Window Text | |
| 2. | Sep 18, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum: Monterey Jazz Edition Comin' Up | 5. | Jun 19, 2009: | Memory Select Age Of Everything | |
| 3. | Sep 04, 2009: | Memory Select Comin' Up | 6. | Jun 12, 2009: | Memory Select Aftermath |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-04-12 | ||
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Strong piano-led quartet with a deeply modern sound that still ties back to the jazz tradition. Iyer plays with a thunderous and percussive bent, informed by drum machines and electronica -- but this is still an acoustic album, one with a richly organic feel. Look for stern, eye-opening themes, followed by solo spaces that keep the same logic (as opposed to being abstract free-for-alls) while stretching outward. Quieter moments bring Iyer closer to a traditional piano-jazz sound, but there's little here that you'd call loungy. It's a middle point between the sternness of hte trio Fieldwork and Iyer's earlier, more mainstream albums like "Memorophilia." Instrumental; FCC clean. Iyer (piano) Rudresh Mahanthappa (sax) Stephan Crump (bass) Marcus Gilmore (drums) 1- Slow build. Grand intro. 2- A fast babble, attention-grabbing. 3- Deep and foreboding, almost prog-rock! Mid/fast; gets emotional. 4- Richly rolling riff, mid/fast. 5- Quiet start, into some neat little statements between sax and piano. Give it some time. 6- Slowish 7- Jaunty, some South African sun, but in an odd time sig. 8- An airy feel over some deep pulsing at the start. Rather nice. 9- Surprisingly nice, almost loungy. 10- Rapid pace; stern jumbly sax & piano. Some really nice piano work, not at all "machine"-like 11- Ballad-like (quiet) but heavy. Gets sharply intense later. 12- A foreboding semi-ballad with heavy subtext. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | The Weight Of Things | 7. | Age Of Everything | |||
| 2. | Macaca Please | 8. | Window Text | |||
| 3. | Aftermath | 9. | I'm All Smiles | |||
| 4. | Comin' Up | 10. | Machine Days | |||
| 5. | Without Lions | 11. | Threnody | |||
| 6. | Mehndi | 12. | Becoming |