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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life - Import CD
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life - Import CD
CD
Jazz
Modern Jazz
March 28, 2025
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Catalog No.: 753980
JAN/ISBN: 602475309802
Number of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: Import
Credits:
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
Description:
This is the second duo album ECM by Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith.
This album, the first in nine years since the previous one, "A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke," was commissioned, is founded on the idea that despite all obstacles, the human experience has a web of possibilities, and is a deep meditation on both the human condition and the suffering and resilience that it brings. Between the unmistakable trumpet wail of Leo Smith and the textured key strokes of Vijay's piano and Fender Rhodes, an ethereal iridescent light shimmers, evoking a multidimensional space of thoughtful musical dialogue. As Vijay notes in his extensive liner notes, "We each work in our own language and with our own material."
The first long track, "Sumud," evokes an ominous sense of foreboding, "Floating River Requiem" lends itself to bluesy undertones, and "Elegy" offers bright signs while harboring doubts.The silver linings of doubt in "Elegy-The Pilgrimage" and the devastatingly beautiful final track, "Procession-Defiant Life," are all part of a larger-than-life meditation on life, and the album is a perfect example of this. If this album is a meditation on life, that sense of wonder is on full display here. Recorded over two days in July 2024 at the Auditorio Stelio Moro in Lugano and produced by Manfred Eicher, "This recording session was a great opportunity for us to explore the possibilities of the music we love so much," said Eicher.
The recording session was based on grief and outrage at the cruelty that has been going on for the past year, but also on faith in human possibility." - Vijay Iyer
Tracklisting:
1.Prelude: Survival
2.Sumud
3.Floating River Requiem (for Patrice Lumumba)
4.Elegy: The Pilgrimage
5.Kite (for Refaat Alareer)
6.Procession: Defiant Life
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