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Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (2013)

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Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (2013)

Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (2013)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 70:05 min | 156 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Pi Recordings

Holding It Down: The Veterans Dreams Project is the result of a three-year collaboration between Grammy nominee Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, with veterans of color from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the culmination of a trilogy of works spanning more than a decade of American life, including the critically acclaimed In What Language? and Still Life with Commentator. For Holding It Down, Iyer and Ladd explore the experiences of veterans of these wars, in particular their post-traumatic-stress-disorder induced nightmares. They interviewed scores of veterans about their dreams, many of which are retold here. Iyer and Ladd also enlisted the help of Maurice Decaul, a poet who served with the Marines in Iraq, and Lynn Hill, who served in the Air Force. Their harrowing poetry and performances serve as the heart and soul of this project. With seething power, Holding It Down explores how post-9/11 war veterans go about their irreversibly altered lives.

Tracklist:

01 Here (Mike, Cambridge) 3:08
02 Derelict Poetry (Maurice, Brooklyn) 4:16
03 Capacity (Lynn, Bronx) 3:55
04 Walking with the Duppy (Rashan, Queens) 3:41
05 There is a Man Slouching in the Stairway (Maurice, Brooklyn) 3:59
06 My Fire (Brad, Chester, NC) 3:09
07 On Patrol (Maurice, Brooklyn) 4:52
08 Dream of an Ex-Ranger (William, Newton, MA) 3:09
09 Name (Lynn, Bronx) 3:38
10 Costume (Mike, Cambridge) 4:08
11 Tormented Star of Morning (Maurice, Brooklyn) 5:09
12 Patton (Calvin, Massapequa, NY) 4:57
13 Shush (Maurice, Brooklyn) 4:06
14 REM Killer (Kirk, Lexington, KY) 3:47
15 Requiem for an Insomniac (Maurice, Brooklyn) 5:12
16 Dreams in Color (Lynn, Bronx) 2:38
17 Mess Hall (Merrin, San Diego) 6:16

Personnel:

Mike Ladd (vocals);
Vijay Iyer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, programming, electronics);
Guillermo E. Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project CD music Brown, Lynn Hill, Pamela Z, Maurice Decaul (vocals);
Liberty Ellman (guitar);
Okkyung Lee (cello);
Kassa Overall (drums).