Iyer, Vijay Trio / Historicity
| Album: | Historicity | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Iyer, Vijay Trio | Added: | Oct 2009 | |
| Label: | Act Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-10-18 | Pull Date: | 2009-12-20 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Dec 20 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 | Nov 22 | Nov 15 | Nov 1 | Oct 25 |
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| Airplays: | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 29, 2022: | Rebop
Mystic Brew (Trixation Version) |
4. | Nov 09, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum
Somewhere |
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| 2. | Aug 01, 2022: | Rebop
Somewhere |
5. | Jun 13, 2017: | It's Bollywood It's Hollywood
Galang (Trio Riot Version) |
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| 3. | Nov 01, 2018: | No Cover, No Minimum
Galang (Trio Riot Version) |
6. | Apr 12, 2016: | It's Bollywood, It's Hollywood
Mystic Brew (Trixation Version) |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-10-18
Reviewed 2009-10-18
VIJAY IYER: Historicity
ACT Music, 2009
MODERN JAZZ – Pianist Vijay Iyer continues to break fresh ground, here with a striking set of highly rhythmic trio pieces. Deep, intensely cerebral but also quite accessible, this is music that pulls you along as it moves through shifting permutations. Only four tacks are originals (that title is no accident), but the eclectic material all has Iyer’s unmistakably vivid stamp. Brilliant work, any easy pick for one of the year’s best…
* * * * * | Every track a winner!
1. 7:48 – complex rhythmic layers, piano broods & leaps, phrases break apart
2. 6:57 – “West Side Story” ballad deconstructed over firm, strolling bass
3. 2:34 – heavy boom-box dancehall breakbeat (cover of an M.I.A. song!)
4. 4:00 – furrowed-brow music: moody piano/bass, diffuse drums; speeds up
5. 8:07 – Andrew Hill tune: fluid piano roams broadly over thick, lumpy rhythm
6. 4:48 – heavy piano, bowed bass, thudding drums…. a Stevie Wonder song!
7. 9:18 – thick, exotic drag: deep bass groan, trilling piano creeps & prances
8. 4:55 – sweeeeet cover of a famously sampled soul-jazz/hip-hop vamp
9. 9:05 – lyrical, but heavy & rather stark; turbulence creeps in from the edges
10. 4:03 – slow, contemplative: haunting melody from piano to bass & back
[ Fo ] 10/18/09
ACT Music, 2009
MODERN JAZZ – Pianist Vijay Iyer continues to break fresh ground, here with a striking set of highly rhythmic trio pieces. Deep, intensely cerebral but also quite accessible, this is music that pulls you along as it moves through shifting permutations. Only four tacks are originals (that title is no accident), but the eclectic material all has Iyer’s unmistakably vivid stamp. Brilliant work, any easy pick for one of the year’s best…
* * * * * | Every track a winner!
1. 7:48 – complex rhythmic layers, piano broods & leaps, phrases break apart
2. 6:57 – “West Side Story” ballad deconstructed over firm, strolling bass
3. 2:34 – heavy boom-box dancehall breakbeat (cover of an M.I.A. song!)
4. 4:00 – furrowed-brow music: moody piano/bass, diffuse drums; speeds up
5. 8:07 – Andrew Hill tune: fluid piano roams broadly over thick, lumpy rhythm
6. 4:48 – heavy piano, bowed bass, thudding drums…. a Stevie Wonder song!
7. 9:18 – thick, exotic drag: deep bass groan, trilling piano creeps & prances
8. 4:55 – sweeeeet cover of a famously sampled soul-jazz/hip-hop vamp
9. 9:05 – lyrical, but heavy & rather stark; turbulence creeps in from the edges
10. 4:03 – slow, contemplative: haunting melody from piano to bass & back
[ Fo ] 10/18/09
Track Listing
| 1. | Historicity | 6. | Big Brother | |||
| 2. | Somewhere | 7. | Dogon A.D. | |||
| 3. | Galang (Trio Riot Version) | 8. | Mystic Brew (Trixation Version) | |||
| 4. | Helix | 9. | Trident: 2010 | |||
| 5. | Smoke Stack | 10. | Segment For Sentiment #2 |