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Vijay Iyer Trio Shares New Video For “Touba” From Widely Celebrated Album Uneasy (ECM)

WATCH HERE

https://youtu.be/AHw1xt6X2eE 

 

Vijay Iyer has shared a new video for his song “Touba,” featured on the Vijay Iyer Trio album Uneasy (ECM). Released this past spring, Uneasy remains one of the best-reviewed jazz albums of 2021. The video for “Touba” was filmed during the Uneasy recording sessions, which took place at the end of 2019. The Vijay Iyer Trio features Vijay Iyer on piano, Tyshawn Sorey on drums, and Linda May Han Oh on bass. Up next for the Trio is a 14-show tour of Europe starting November 3rd. 

Watch "Touba" here: https://youtu.be/AHw1xt6X2eE 

Uneasy has been celebrated by the NY TimesNew YorkerWall Street Journal and New York Magazine. The album earned a Pitchfork Best New Music designation (8.6) and Iyer’s 4th Downbeat cover story in just 6 years, and led to interviews on an array of key podcasts including Switched On Popand Object of Sound, and far beyond. Iyer also composed a new piece of music for the final episode of NPR Morning Edition’s Song Project series, and last month was finally able to perform with the Vijay Iyer Trio in person for the first time since January of 2020: they played two sets at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, and filmed a live session of 3 songs for WNYC’s long-running Soundcheck series

For more Uneasy praise, read below and watch this short video: https://vimeo.com/626875302/f6023ab3a9

 

Says Iyer, about “Touba”: 

This is a version of a piece I recorded in 2003 with poet Mike Ladd, for our project In What Language? This piece accompanies a poem called “Plastic Bag,” about a Senegalese vendor who carries all of his belongings with him in a woven sack. “Touba” is the name of the spiritual homeland for the Murid sect of Islam, practiced by many Senegalese people; this faith states that this homeland of Touba is remade anew wherever they migrate to. As Ladd’s narrator states, “Moved by the will of beneficent breath, my home is with me.”

Iyer is also an accomplished composer, having collaborated on commissioned work with Tanglewood, Aspen and Ojai Music Festivals, Wigmore Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cologne Philharmonie, The Knights, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with new works for new commissioning partners underway.

“SoreyOh, and Iyer negotiate complex parameters of rhythm and harmony with the soaring precision of raptors on the wing” - Pitchfork, Best New Music (8.6)

“Iyer could be the poster boy for twenty-first-century jazz…a triumph of small-group interchange and fertile invention” - The New Yorker 

“Subtle yet powerful...this album’s greatest strengths speak less of the past and more about how these three musicians, acting as equal players, create together in the present” - Wall Street Journal

“Extraordinary...reaffirming his status as one of the most creative figures in improvised music” - Boston Globe, feature 

“Could be the definitive political work of this year…It evokes the highest ideals of creative music: not just taking turns but using one’s own to spur another’s” –Jazz Times

"One of the best albums of the year so far" – Spectrum Culture

“A lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity, in the style of well-schooled jazz musicians, while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is [the trio’s] ability to connect with each other in real time, almost telepathically” - The New York Times, feature

 

Vijay Iyer upcoming performances:

November 3, 2021 - MoMkult in Budapest, Hungary

November 4, 2021 - Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Germany

November 5, 2021 - Kino Sc in Zagreb, Croatia

November 6, 2021 - Klub Żak in Gdansk, Poland

November 8, 2021 - Barcelona Jazz Festival in Barcelona, Spain

November 10, 2021 - ‘s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

November 11, 2021 - Centro Cultural Vila Flor (CCVF) in Guimaraes, Portugal

November 12, 2021 - Alte Feuerwache in Mannheim, Germany

November 13, 2021 - SPOT / De Oosterpoort in Groningen, Netherlands

November 14, 2021 - EFG London Jazz Festival in London, UK

November 16, 2021 - Sala Sinopoli Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Italy

November 18, 2021 - Bck Dom Muzyki in Bielsko-Biala, Poland

March 11, 2022 - Teatro Golden in Palmero, Italy

March 13, 2022 - deSingel in Antwerp, Belgium