Break Stuff (album)

Break Stuff
Studio album by Vijay Iyer
Released February 10, 2015 (2015-02-10)
Recorded June 2014
Studio Avatar Studios, New York
Genre Jazz
Length 1:10:36
Label ECM ECM 2420
Producer Manfred Eicher
Vijay Iyer chronology
Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi
(2014)		 Break Stuff
(2015)		 A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic84/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
All Music[2]
The Guardian[3]
PopMatters8/10[4]
The Irish Times[5]
All About Jazz[6]

Break Stuff is a studio album by American jazz musician Vijay Iyer. It was released in February 2015 under ECM Records.[7]

Reception

Thom Jurek in his review for All Music says that "This trio aims at an interior center, finds it, and pushes out, projecting Iyer & Co.'s discoveries."[2] In The Guardian, John Fordham gave this album four stars out of five, saying says that "Iyer, bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore sound joined at the hip even when sometimes seeming to be investigating completely different tunes, but almost everything here feels just as jazz-rooted as the three classic covers on the tracklist."[3]

John Garelick of The Boston Globe stated "Like the pianist and composer’s other trio records, it makes for a satisfying, portable Iyer, alternating math-y rhythmic concoctions like the post-minimalist “Hood” (for the Detroit techno producer DJ Robert Hood) and “Mystery Woman” (which draws from the compound rhythms of South Indian music) with varied jazz standards (Thelonious Monk’s “Work,” John Coltrane’s “Countdown,” Billy Strayhorn’s “Blood Count”) and more atmospheric originals. Iyer, bassist Stephan Crump, and drummer Marcus Gilmore have fully incorporated electronica and hip-hop into a jazz vocabulary. Despite the album’s layered meters, you couldn’t ask for a more swinging “Work,” or a more moving solo-piano treatment of “Blood Count,” ending with a repetition of the questing opening phrase over somber low-register chords. With all of this band’s attention to rhythm, it’s nice to have an isolated example of Iyer’s sensitive voice leading, his beautiful touch and tone."[8]

Track listing

ECM Records – ECM 2420.[7]

All music composed by Vijay Iyer, except are indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Starlings" 3:52
2."Chorale" 4:35
3."Diptych" 6:47
4."Hood" 6:10
5."Work"Thelonious Monk6:14
6."Taking Flight" 7:15
7."Blood Count"Billy Strayhorn4:34
8."Break Stuff" 5:26
9."Mystery Woman" 6:21
10."Geese" 6:38
11."Countdown"John Coltrane5:57
12."Wrens" 6:47
Total length:1:10:36

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Break Stuff (Metacritic page)". Metacritic. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Break Stuff (All Music Review)". All Music. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Break Stuff (The Guardian Review)". The Guardian. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Layman, Will (25 February 2015). "Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff". PopMatters. popmatters.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Cormac (13 February 2015). "Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff — Album Review". The Irish Times. rishtimes.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Kelman, Johnl (5 February 2015). "r". All About Jazz. allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Break Stuff". ECM Records. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ Garelick, John (10 February 2015). "Vijay Iyer Trio, 'Break Stuff'". Boston Globe. bostonglobe.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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