JazzTimes (pp.54-55) - "Of the Iyer originals, 'Autoscopy' boldly, successfully portrays an out-of-body experience."47.44921
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Rahman] juxtaposes the folk sounds of Mumbai's slums with the techno of its city streets."Billboard (p.34) - "Rahman focuses more on synthesis, bringing slinky funk overtones to 'Gangsta Blues'....One of those rare soundtracks that holds up well independent of its film."0.3205374
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Dirty Linen (p.81) - "Vrunda Shukla's vocals are pliant and sweet....Violinist Srinath Iyer's playing has a sensitive suppleness. K.N. Venkiteswaran shows consummate skill on mridangam."0.2891482
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Dirty Linen (p.81) - "Vrunda Shukla's vocals are pliant and sweet....Violinist Srinath Iyer's playing has a sensitive suppleness. K.N. Venkiteswaran shows consummate skill on mridangam."0.2891482
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JazzTimes (11/03, p.97) - "IN WHAT LANGUAGE? Signals a culmination of Iyer's vision. The music he presents here - groovy and shape-shifting, slippery yet concrete - amounts to a tour de force..."0.2530047
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Down Beat (p.74) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Iyer is skilled at using interlocking parts and choppy rhythms to generate heat."JazzTimes (p.95) - "[I]t swings madly. Iyers fingers dance to the jaunty rhythm of 'Age of Everything,' which sounds like 'Jitterbug Waltz' for the third millennium."Signal To Noise (magazine) (p.48) - "'Aftermath' is a dramatic piece, with beautiful staccato punctuations from Mahanthappa over Crump's bass. On this track and others, Iyer explores a minimalism that calls to mind certain works by Glass or Ichiyanagi."0.2504097
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Down Beat (p.72) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[There are] conversations here between form and freedom, light and dark tonalities, and, as the title suggests, jazz history and future jazz."JazzTimes (p.61) - "Iyer's reading of the Bernstein/Sondheim classic `Somewhere' discards the aching pathos of the original in favor of a teeming, dark-hued exercise in tonal and melodic coloration."JazzTimes (p.34) - Ranked #2 in JazzTimes' "Top 50 CDs of 2009" -- "[The album] meshes intellect with humor...and smart originals with wild covers..."Pitchfork (Website) - "The most strikingly modern and heavy-hitting track is Iyer's cover of M.I.A.'s 'Galang', a startling, compact and ultimately breathtaking reinvention of the song."0.1789013
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CMJ - "The cohesiveness of this band is remarkable throughout TIRTHA. Prasanna's guitar playing seems to exceed the capacity of the instrument, employing gamakas and sliding rapidly about the fret board as if he were playing a sitar."Down Beat (p.58) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a dense fabric and an irresistible momentum. But there is also time for introspection, which is brought forth with a rare clarity."JazzTimes (p.65) - "Iyer and Prasanna alternate songwriting duties, and both reveal an incredible skill for using Western instruments to communicate decidedly Eastern music."Billboard (p.36) - "In the early going, the trio meets force with more force, Iyer's 'Duality' and Prasanna's 'Tribal Wisdom' serving as vehicles for the instrumentalists to demonstrate their flair for the intense."0.1789013
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Magnet (p.118) - "Lehman's sour-toned lines, Iyer's block chords and Kavee's skittering funk beats hang together with the structural integrity of an Alexander Calder mobile."The Wire (p.58) - "[T]heir music is a graceful, yet sturdy sort of chamber jazz, consistently surprising and unique without pressing the issue."JazzTimes (pp.63-64) - "Fieldwork's rhythmic logic can be immensely involved, but the results are disarmingly concise....Dark yet uplifting, intellectually demanding yet effortlessly funky."0.1445741
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The Wire (p.59) - "Smith's horn playing is spacious and meditative, befitting his Rastafarian beliefs; it's as if he's creating a real-time dub mix of his own lines."Down Beat (p.77) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "A piece named for the quartet's original drummer, Jack DeJohnette, splashes sonic colors, while the opening 'Rosa Parks' builds tension mightily behind Iyer's Rhodes and Jackson's multidimensional drumming."JazzTimes (p.94) - "To say the new lineup is powerful would be a huge understatement. Smith elicits a symphony of sounds from his trumpet....Bassist John Lindberg thumps and plucks so hard that he threatens to pop the woofers."0.1445741
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