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  • Summary: Vijay Iyer collaborates with Prasanna and Nitin Mitta to combine their different styles of music to create this jazz album.
  • Record Label: Act Music + Vision
  • Genre(s): Jazz, Avant-Garde, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, International, Modern Creative, Progressive Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Structured Improvisation, Indian Subcontinent Traditions, Carnatic, Indian Classical
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  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Billboard.com
    Mar 31, 2011
    82
    The music is at its best when it emulates an animated conversation, one voice leap-frogging the other with no one losing sight of the central theme.
  2. CMJ
    Mar 15, 2011
    80
    This album is clearly not one you would want to put on in the background of your next party. In every aspect (its forms, melodies, instrumentation, etc.) it is a challenging and engaging hour of music.
  3. The Guardian
    Apr 7, 2011
    80
    Iyer and his partners sound like a spontaneous ensemble from the outset--not self-conscious participants in a fusion experiment.

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