Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has introduced a brand new album with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Out March 21, by way of ECM, Defiant Life is the artists’ second collaborative file, following 2016’s A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. In the present day, Iyer and Smith have additionally shared the album’s closing music, “Procession: Defiant Life.” Take heed to it beneath.
“Our time collectively, from the second we meet proper till the second we play, is most frequently spent speaking concerning the state of the world,” Iyer stated in a press assertion, “learning histories of liberation, and sharing readings and historic references, as a way of grounding ourselves purposefully in our current.”
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Defiant Life:
01 Prelude: Survival
02 Sumud
03 Floating River Requiem (for Patrice Lumumba)
04 Elegy: The Pilgrimage
05 Kite (for Refaat Alareer)
06 Procession: Defiant Life
