Panoptic Modes

Panoptic Modes
Studio album by
Vijay Iyer
Released2001
RecordedJune 9, 2000
StudioThe Studio/Current Sounds, NYC
GenreJazz
Length65:58
LabelRed Giant RG 011
ProducerCookie Marenco and Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer chronology
Architextures
(1998) 		Panoptic Modes
(2001) 		Your Life Flashes
(2002)

Panoptic Modes is the third studio album led by American 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]
Tom HullB+[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

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".[5]

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. ^ a b Adler, David R. "Panoptic Modes". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  3. ^ Hull, Tom. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Vijay Iyer". tomhull.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 751. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Santella, Jim (2002-03-01). "Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.