Iyer, Vijay / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta / Tirtha
Album: Tirtha   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Iyer, Vijay / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta   Added:Mar 2011
Label:Act Music  

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Add Date: 2011-03-13 Pull Date: 2011-05-15 Charts: Jazz
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Recent Airplay
1. Feb 10, 2024: Music Casserole
Falsehood
4. Jun 13, 2017: It's Bollywood It's Hollywood
Entropy And Time, Tirtha
2. Sep 23, 2023: Music Casserole
Abundance
5. Dec 06, 2016: It's Bollywood, It's Hollywood
Tirtha, Duality
3. May 03, 2022: It's Bollywood, It's Hollywood
Entropy And Time
6. Jul 15, 2016: Rebop
Abundance

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-03-13
VIJAY IYER / PRASANNA / NITIN MITTA: Tirtha
ACT Music, 2011

MODERN JAZZ – Piano star Vijay Iyer joins up with an Indian guitarist and tabla player in this striking trio. But while they have a shared heritage and elements of traditional Indian music are prominent throughout, this is more about the collaboration of three bold individuals than a fusion of styles. Mitta’s restless tabla provides a fluid underpinning to Iyer’s deep, hard-edged piano and Prasanna’s mercurial guitar. There’s a lot going on.
Note: title is pronounced “THEER-tha”

Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6

1. 5:59 – dark, jabbing patterns; piano is all flashing steel; veers into sinuous solos
2. 11:06 – striding: vocal percussion, stony piano, quivering guitar, hot tabla solo
3. 7:04 – steadily flowing: really nice guitar rides the rapids as pace accelerates
4. 7:46 – contemplative movement, a very rich sound: cerebral solos, vocal at end
5. 6:38 – gently surging spiral: guitar solo ponders, piano reaches out, steady tabla
6. 2:10 – stream of quick notes over a firm, striding foundation; trio keeps it tight
7. 5:43 – solo guitar sets up lopsided trio stroll: piano & guitar at oblique angles
8. 6:09 – relaxed pace, piano has a melancholy touch, nice interplay with guitar
9. 7:58 – based on Carnatic raga: lilting melody with bright touches, supple rhythm

[ Fo ] 03/13/11

Track Listing
1. Duality   6. Gauntlet
2. Tribal Wisdom   7. Polytheism
3. Tirtha   8. Remembrance
4. Abundance   9. Entropy And Time
5. Falsehood   .