Break Stuff Vijay Iyer Trio

• 1 Starlings 03:52
• 2 Chorale 04:34
• 3 Diptych 06:48
• 4 Hood 06:10
• 5 Work 06:15
• 6 Taking Flight 07:15
• 7 Blood Count 04:36
• 8 Break Stuff 05:27
• 9 Mystery Woman 06:21
• 10 Geese 06:39
• 11 Countdown 05:57
• 12 Wrens 06:48
• Total Runtime 01:10:42

Info zu Break Stuff

Einige der Stücke hier sind Neufassungen anderer Iyer-Kompositionen. Einige stammen aus einer Suite, die ihre Premiere im New Yorker Museum of Modern Art hatte, andere aus Open City, einer Zusammenarbeit mit dem Romancier Teju Cole. Das Trio formt alles, was es hier anfasst, voller Energie um.

„Hood“ ist ein Tribut an den Detroit-Techno-Pionier Robert Hood. Auf „Work“ erweist Iyer seinem Helden Thelonious Monk seine Ehrerbietung. „Countdown“ denkt den gleichnamigen Coltrane-Klassiker innerhalb eines von Westafrikanischer Musik inspirierten rhythmischen Rahmens neu. „Mystery Woman“ wird von Pulsschlägen angetrieben, die Vorbilder in der südindischen Trommelkunst haben.

Die Gruppe hat eine Vorliebe für das entwickelt, was Iyer co-constructing nennt, die Erforschung aller Dynamiken im Zusammenspiel. In einem nachdenklichen Moment spielt Iyer solo eine berührende Version von Billy Strayhorns „Blood Count“. Break Stuff, eingespielt im Juni 2014 im New Yorker Avatar Studio und von Manfred Eicher produziert, ist Vijay Iyers dritte ECM-Veröffentlichung. Sie folgt auf die Kammermusik-Aufnahme Mutations und das Film-und-Musik-Projekt Radhe radhe: Rites of Holi.

Vijay Iyer, Klavier
Stephan Crump, Kontrabass
Marcus Gilmore, Schlagzeug

Recorded June 2014 at Avatar Studios, New York
Engineered by James A. Farber
Produced by Manfred Eicher

Vijay Iyer
Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as 'one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today,' by The New Yorker as one of 'today's most important pianists... extravagantly gifted... brilliantly eclectic,' and by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star.” He was voted the 2010 Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, and named one of the “50 Most Influential Global Indians” by GQ India. Iyer has released sixteen albums as a leader, most recently Accelerando (2012), an intense, visceral follow-up to the multiple-award-winning Historicity (2009), both featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio (Iyer, piano; Marcus Gilmore, drums; Stephan Crump, bass). Historicity was a 2010 Grammy Nominee for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, and was named #1 Jazz Album of the Year in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Metro Times, National Public Radio, PopMatters.com, the Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and the Downbeat International Critics Poll. The trio won the 2010 Echo Award (the 'German Grammy') for best international ensemble and the Downbeat Critics Poll for rising star small ensemble of the year. Iyer’s many other honors include the Alpert Award in the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Greenfield Prize and numerous composer commissions.

Iyer’s many collaborators include his generation’s fellow forward-thinkers Rudresh Mahanthappa, Rez Abbasi, Craig Taborn, Ambrose Akinmusire, Liberty Ellman, Steve Lehman and Tyshawn Sorey; elder avant-garde pioneers such as Steve Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Butch Morris, George Lewis, and Amina Claudine Myers; new-music experimenters Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, and John Zorn; hip-hop innovators Dead Prez, Das Racist, DJ Spooky, and High Priest of Antipop Consortium; South Asian percussionist-producers Karsh Kale, Suphala, and Talvin Singh; filmmakers Haile Gerima and Bill Morrison; choreographer Karole Armitage; and poets Mike Ladd, Amiri Baraka, Charles Simic, and Robert Pinsky. His concert works have been performed by the Ethel, JACK, and Brentano String Quartets, the Silk Road Ensemble, American Composers Orchestra, Hermès Ensemble, and Imani Winds. A polymath whose career has spanned the sciences, the humanities and the arts, Iyer received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the cognitive science of music from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published articles in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Wire, Music Perception, JazzTimes, and The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2010. He was recently appointed Director of the Banff Centre's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, a program founded in 1974 by Oscar Peterson.

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