Release Date: 18 March 2016
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547699565
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
'a cosmic rhythm with each stroke' features pianist Vijay Iyer and the musician he has described as his "hero, friend and teacher", trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith's Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York's Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centrepiece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space.
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering 'a cosmic rhythm with each stroke' at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi's art and writings.
The "Suite for Nasreen" is framed on the album by Iyer's composition "Passage" and Smith's concluding piece "Marian Anderson", inspired by the great US contralto.
Personnel: Vijay Iyer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
Tracklisting
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Nicolas Masson; Colin Vallon; Patrice Moret; Lionel Friedli
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
