Panoptic Modes

Panoptic Modes
Studio album by Vijay Iyer
Released 2001
Recorded June 9, 2000 at The Studio/Current Sounds, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 65:58
Label Red Giant RG 011
Producer Cookie Marenco and Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer chronology
Architextures
(1998)
Panoptic Modes
(2001)
Your Life Flashes
(2002)

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.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

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".[2] 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".[3]

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

References

  1. Pi Recordings discography accessed October 9, 2014
  2. 1 2 Adler, David R. "Panoptic Modes". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  3. Santella, Jim (2002-03-01). "Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
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