Panoptic Modes, by Vijay Iyer

Panoptic Modes

by Vijay Iyer

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1.	Invocation 06:07	buy track
2.	Configurations 06:41	buy track
3.	One Thousand and One 08:30	buy track
4.	History is Alive 04:41	buy track
5.	Father Spirit 06:19	buy track
6.	Atlantean Tropes 06:54	buy track
7.	Numbers (for Mumia) 01:43	buy track
8.	Trident 07:16	buy track
9.	Circular Argument 04:47	buy track
10.	Invariants 08:19	buy track
11.	Mountains 04:41	buy track

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“His harmonic and formal concepts are as challenging as ever, yet his exceedingly difficult writing is rendered oddly accessible by the unperturbed facility of his band.”–Allmusic.com

“FOUR STARS…a music so rhythmically gripping and harmonically provocative that one hardly can wait to hear what outlandish ideas these players will hit upon next… Panoptic Modes offers a sensuousness of sound and vividness of performances that will seduce even the casual listener.”–Los Angeles Times

“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.”–All About Jazz

“His touch is stirring, even emphatic… This band glows with purpose.”–Village Voice

Pi Recordings is proud to re-issue Grammy Award-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer’s Panoptic Modes. Originally released on the Red Giant label in 2001, it was his third CD as a leader and the one that first launch him to prominence with rave reviews from The Village Voice and The New Yorker, both of which named it to their best albums of the year lists. Featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, Stephan Crump on bass, and Derrek Phillips on drums, Panoptic Modes is the CD on which Iyer’s artistic focus and vision really coalesced, giving an early hint of the talents of an artist who has since become one of the most important in jazz.

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released October 16, 2001

Vijay Iyer - piano
Rudresh Mahanthappa - alto saxophone
Stephan Crump - bass
Derrek Phillips - drums

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Vijay Iyer New York, New York

Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” composer-pianist VIJAY IYER has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. He received a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artist Fellowship, and a Grammy nomination. ... more

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May 2

Paine Hall, Harvard University

Cambridge, MA
May 9

Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress

Washington, DC
May 19

Moss Theater, Herb Alpert Educational Village

Santa Monica, CA
May 21

Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 2

BASF - Feierabendhaus

Ludwigshafen, Germany

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