Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 165 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | Artwork included | 00:53:42
Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ECM Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 165 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | Artwork included | 00:53:42
Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ECM Records
Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life – Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM – proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the suffering and resilience it entails. An ethereal iridescence glistens between Leo Smith’s unmistakable trumpet wail and Vijay’s textural key strokes on piano and Fender Rhodes, conjuring multi-dimensional spaces of thoughtful musical conversation. “We work from our individual languages and materials,” notes Vijay in his extensive liner note, as well as “our methods of aural attunement, and what I would call a shared aesthetic of necessity”.