Iyer, Vijay / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta / Tirtha
| Album: | Tirtha | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Iyer, Vijay / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta | Added: | Mar 2011 | |
| Label: | Act Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2011-03-13 | Pull Date: | 2011-05-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | May 15 | May 8 | May 1 | Apr 24 | Apr 17 | Apr 10 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 10, 2024: | Music Casserole
Falsehood |
4. | Jun 13, 2017: | It's Bollywood It's Hollywood
Entropy And Time, Tirtha |
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| 2. | Sep 23, 2023: | Music Casserole
Abundance |
5. | Dec 06, 2016: | It's Bollywood, It's Hollywood
Tirtha, Duality |
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| 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
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
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 | 5. | Falsehood | |||
| 2. | Tribal Wisdom | 6. | Gauntlet | |||
| 3. | Tirtha | 7. | Polytheism | |||
| 4. | Abundance | 8. | Remembrance | |||
| 9. | Entropy And Time | |||||