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Panoptic Modes

Label: Red Giant Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Invocation; Configurations; One Thousand and One; History is Alive; Father Spirit; Atlantean Tropes; Numbers (for Mumia); Trident: 2001; Circular Argument; Invariants; Mountains.

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Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes

Read "Panoptic Modes" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
March 1, 2002

What a combination. Vijay Iyer's music contains the adventurousness and dramatic tension that you'd expect from avant-garde jazz; as well as a light, rhythmic swing, for those of us who live in the mainstream. His third album is accessible to one and all. They're his originals, and they're interpreted by a stellar quartet. By limiting the ...

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Panoptic Modes

By Vijay Iyer

Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 2001

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Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes

by Joel Roberts
December 1, 2001

Although Vijay Iyer has a Ph.D. in music and cognitive science, his dazzling new CD, Panoptic Modes , shows the New York-based pianist more focused on spiritual concerns than purely intellectual ones. Melding Vedic chant and South Indian rhythms with the more obvious influences of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, Iyer creates a unique and vibrant ...