Recordings
Apti (innova, 2008)
Trio with guitar virtuoso
Rez Abbasi and tabla star
Dan Weiss. This ensemble debuted at Joe's Pub in January 2006.
Apti reviewed in Rolling Stone and The Buffalo News.
Apti featured on PRI's The World. Listen to tracks from the album here. Kinsmen
(Pi Recordings,
2008) A collaboration with Carnatic saxophone giant Kadri Gopalnath
which also features A. Kanykumari on violin, Rez Abbasi on guitars, Carlo de Rosa on bass, Poovalur Sriji on mridangam, and royal hartigan on drums. Listen to tracks and watch videos on the Dakshina myspace page.
Buy the album from Amazon, at your favorite CD store, from your preferred digital download service such as iTunes, or from Pi Recordings. The Beautiful Enabler
(Clean Feed,
2008) A new and exciting collective trio with two legendary improvisers bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Gerry Hemingway Listen to tracks from the album here Buy the album from the Downtown Music Gallery or on iTunes. Codebook
(Pi Recordings,
2006) A quartet
album featuring Vijay
Iyer on piano, François
Moutin on bass, and Dan Weiss on drums. Listen to the opening track "The Decider" on Rudresh's myspace page: Raw Materials
(Savoy Jazz,
2006) This duo
album with pianist Vijay
Iyer has been a major collaboration for the past 10 years. This self-titled CD is their first release. Read a review from Time Out New York Read a feature article from the Wall Street Journal Buy the album here or on iTunes. Mother Tongue
(Pi Recordings,
2004) This quartet
album featuring Vijay
Iyer on piano, François
Moutin on bass, and Elliot
Humberto Kavee on drums contains music from a suite entitled "Mother
Tongue: Do You Speak Indian?" All of the compositions are based on
melodic transcriptions of Indian-Americans responding to such a question
in their native Indian language. You can learn more about how this music
was conceived by clicking here.
Feature story about Rudresh in the February 2005 issue of Jazz Times Here an interview with Rudresh talking about Mother Tongue on WNYC Read a review at allaboutjazz.com Read another review at allaboutjazz.com Read an interview at betjazz.com Read a review at allmusic.com Listen: Black Water
(Red Giant Records,
2002) “Black
Water” is an expression that Indian immigrants have used to describe
the transformation of one’s cultural identity upon moving to the
West. In essence, it is a term that is broadly used to refer to the issues
that arise in defining Indian-American diasporic identity. Rudresh conveys
varying aspects of bi-cultural existence with the same quartet as above. Read
a review at allaboutjazz.com Listen: Are
There Clouds in India?.mp3 Buy
it here. Yatra (AEMMP,
1996) Rudresh's
first album features Ryan Shultz on bass trumpet, Jim Trompeter on piano,
Larry Kohut on bass, and Jerry Steinhilber on drums. Listen: Currently
out of print. As a sideman
. . . Tragicomic
(Sunnyside,
2008) Vijay
Iyer Quartet Spider's Dance
(Ultrabolic,
2007) Hubert Dupont's Dupont T Bazaar
(Zoho,
2006) Reimagining
(Savoy,
2005) Vijay
Iyer Quartet In What Language
(Pi Recordings, 2003) Vijay
Iyer and Mike Ladd Blood Sutra
(Artist House,
2003) Vijay
Iyer Quartet Panoptic
Modes (Red Giant
Records, 2001) Vijay
Iyer Quartet The New International
Edition (Lyrae,
2002) Pierre Lognay
Sextet featuring Mark Turner Architextures
(Asian Improv,
1996) Vijay
Iyer Trio and Octet
CD released in November 2008.
Read the the Pi press release to learn more about the project.
Read reviews here and here.
Read reviews here and here and here.
The compositions are derived from methods and concepts of cryptography and number theory.
Packaging includes encoded messages and a decoding device!
Listen to a feature about Codebook on American Public Media's Weekend America radio show.
Read more about the music at wired.com and Science Magazine.
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To listen to more of Raw Materials, visit the their page on myspace.com.
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