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Panoptic Modes

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Released
  
2001

Artist
  
Vijay Iyer

Label
  
Red Giant Records

Length
  
65:58

Release date
  
15 October 1997

Genre
  
Jazz


Recorded
  
June 9, 2000 at The Studio/Current Sounds, NYC

Panoptic Modes (2001)
  
Your Life Flashes (2002)

Producers
  
Cookie Marenco, Vijay Iyer

Similar
  
Vijay Iyer albums, Jazz albums

Panoptic Modes is the third album led by pianist Vijay Iyer originally released on the Red Giant label in 2001 and re-released on Pi Recordings in 2010.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by David R. Adler stated "His harmonic and formal concepts are as challenging as ever, yet his exceedingly difficult writing is rendered oddly accessible by the unperturbed facility of his band". Writing for All About Jazz, Jim Santella said "Vijay Iyer's music contains the adventurousness and dramatic tension that you'd expect from avant-garde jazz; as well as a light, rhythmic swing, for those of us who live in the mainstream. His third album is accessible to one and all. They're his originals, and they're interpreted by a stellar quartet".

Track listing

All compositions by Vijay Iyer

  1. "Invocation" - 6:07
  2. "Configurations" - 6:41
  3. "One Thousand and One" - 8:30
  4. "History Is Alive" - 4:41
  5. "Father Spirit" - 6:19
  6. "Atlantean Tropes" - 6:54
  7. "Numbers (For Mumia)" - 1:43
  8. "Trident: 2001" - 7:16
  9. "Circular Argument" - 4:47
  10. "Invariants" - 8:19
  11. "Mountains" - 4:41

Personnel

  • Vijay Iyer — piano
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa — alto saxophone
  • Stephan Crump — bass
  • Derrek Phillips — drums

    • Songs

    1Invocation6:08
    2Configurations6:42
    3One Thousand and One8:30

    References

    Panoptic Modes Wikipedia
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