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Vijay Iyer, Part 1-2

by Paul Olson
June 2, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2 New York pianist/composer Vijay Iyer may be the musician of 2005. With his remarkable quartet and their fine new CD Reimagining, his collaborative, experimental trio Fieldwork (whose new CD Simulated Progress should turn some heads when it's released in July), his past and future collaborations with spoken-word/experimental hip-hop ...

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Vijay Iyer: Reimagining

Read "Reimagining" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
May 16, 2005

New York pianist/composer Vijay Iyer continues his string of remarkable recordings with his Savoy debut, Reimagining, his first release with his quartet since 2003's Blood Sutra. I hesitate to call this new CD his most mature statement to date, since Iyer sounded pretty fully-formed--and hardly callow--on his 1995 debut, Memorophilia. But I'll say it anyway: Reimagining ...

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Blood Sutra

By Vijay Iyer

Label: Artists House
Released: 2003
Track listing: Proximity (Crossroads), Brute Facts, Ascent, When History Sleeps, Questions of Agency, Kinship, Stigmatism, This Much Music, Imagined Nations, Because of Guns/Hey Joe Redux, Desiring

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Vijay Iyer: Blood Sutra

Read "Blood Sutra" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 16, 2003

Pianist Vijay Iyer isn't afraid of big ideas. He premiered a song cycle about urban life and ethnicity and “lives in transit" at the Asia Society in May (documented on the Pi Recordings release In What Language, also released this month), and is the 2003 recipient of the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts in the ...

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Vijay Iyer: Blood Sutra

Read "Blood Sutra" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 11, 2003

You get the feeling that piansist Vijay Iyer is shifting into a period of transition with the opening track on his new CD, Blood Sutra. “Proximity (Crossroads)" is – uncharacteristicaly for Iyer – a slow tempo bit of introspection, with a swish of brush and stickwork painting washes behind the hard-edged piano notes. But the “Brute ...

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Panoptic Modes

By Vijay Iyer

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 ...

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Architextures

By Vijay Iyer

Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Prelude: Paradise Lost, Meeting-of-Rivers, Microchips and Bullock Carts, Charms, Sadhu, Three Peas, Trident, Taste the Sea, Los Ojos, Utopia of the Tired Man, Journey Over Sands, Postlude: Prayer