Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musicia… Read Full Bio ↴a cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay 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 centre-piece 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.
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02A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: All Becomes AliveVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
03A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: The Empty Mind ReceivesVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
04A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: LabyrinthsVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
05A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: A Divine CourageVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
06A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: Uncut EmeraldsVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
07A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: A Cold FireVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
09A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke: Notes on WaterVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
18A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke- The Empty Mind ReceivesVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
19A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke- All Becomes AliveVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
20A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke- LabyrinthsVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo SmithVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
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