Vijay Iyer Trio Shares New Video For “Touba” From Widely Celebrated Album Uneasy (ECM)
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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 Times, New Yorker, Wall 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.
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