Release Date: 10 September 2013
Label: PI Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 808713004922
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'Holding It Down: The Veterans Dreams Project' is an astonishing album to emerge from the longtime collaboration of Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/performer/librettist/emcee Mike Ladd. Three years in the making, the work focuses on veterans of colour from the last decade's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
'Holding It Down' is a thought-provoking, sometimes frightening, and ultimately exhilarating combination of music, poetry and song, created from the actual dreams of young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The album continues in the ground breaking, politically searing, stylistically omnivorous fashion of their previous works (the award-winning 'In What Language?' (Pi 2004) and 'Still Life with Commentator' (2007).
Tracklisting
Steve Coleman
Tyshawn Sorey
Matt Mitchell
Kim Cass
Luke Stewart
Henry Threadgill
Kate Gentile
Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz
Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
