Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has introduced a brand new album with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Out March 21, through ECM, Defiant Life is the artists’ second collaborative report, following 2016’s A Cosmic Rhythm With Every Stroke. At present, Iyer and Smith have additionally shared the album’s closing tune, “Procession: Defiant Life.” Take heed to it under.
“Our time collectively, from the second we meet proper till the second we play, is most frequently spent speaking in regards to the state of the world,” Iyer stated in a press assertion, “finding out histories of liberation, and sharing readings and historic references, as a method 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
