Essentials

This premium collector's box includes the original, pioneering albums: - Historicity- Accelerando- Solo. Historicity is Iyers first full album in the classic piano trio format and, at the same time, a profound redefinition of this genre. The pianists examination of the concept of historicity is the albums center of focus. Its about being placed in the stream of history, he explains in the liner notes. Without a doubt, it's the past that's setting us in motion. On Historicity, Iyer travels full circle from covers such as Galang, by global hip-hop star M.I.A, to Stevie Wonders Big Brother, back to his own very early pieces (Trident and Sentiment). Not least due to the fact that the trio almost sounds like a single person, associations here succeed as never heard before. Or as Iyer himself put it: Music, it seems, also connects -- carrying us smoothly across the tumult of experience, like water over rocks.

Tracks

1~1~Imagine
1~2~Aftermath
1~3~Suite For Trayvon (And Thousands More) - Ii. Fallacies [With Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman &Amp; Andrew Cyrille]
1~4~The Star Of A Story
1~5~Infogee Dub
1~6~Human Nature
1~7~Suite For Trayvon (And Thousands More) - Iii. Adagio [With Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman &Amp; Andrew Cyrille]
1~8~Entropy And Time
1~9~Off The Top
1~10~Song For Midwood
1~11~When History Sleeps
1~12~Derelict Poetry (Maurice, Brooklyn)
1~13~Invocation
1~14~Charms
1~15~Galang (Trio Riot Version)

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Vijay Iyer
Release Date: 30 August 2019
Genre: Jazz
Label: ACT Music
Distributor: MGM Music