Mutations

Mutations

Mutations is Vijay Iyers first album as a leader for ECM, and a recording that will widen perceptions of the pianist-composers work. At its center is Mutations I-X, a composition scored for string quartet, piano, and electronics. A major piece built out of cells and fragments, it veers through many atmospheres, from moment to moment propulsive, enveloping, lyrical, luminescent, and strangely beautiful. Through thematic interactivity, the interweaving of acoustic and electronic sound-textures, and some decisive improvisational interventions in notated music, Vijay Iyer has created a multi-faceted suite whose very subject is change. Iyer gives a positive value to the concept of mutation in this music, and variously appears in it as an interpreter of notated elements, as an improviser, and as a sort of laptop artist, mixing in noise and different sounds, encouraging the transformative processes: The suite is framed by three solo statements: Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea, a solo piano reading of one of Iyers early compositions, and Vuln, Part 2 and When Were Gone, pieces created in summer 2013. The newer compositions put the piano in counterpoint with electronically generated rhythms and textures which extend the aura of the suite, making the arc of the whole album a journey over changing terrain.
Country USA
Brand ECM
Manufacturer ECM
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 12451149
Model 28930916
ReleaseDate 2014-03-03
UnitCount 1
UPCs 602537647989
EANs 0602537647989

Country	USA
Brand	ECM
Manufacturer	ECM
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	12451149
Model	28930916
ReleaseDate	2014-03-03
UnitCount	1
UPCs	602537647989
EANs	0602537647989

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