Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project

Album by Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd

Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project is a 2013 studio album by American jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. The album combines jazz improvisation, electronic textures and spoken-word material drawn from veterans' dream narratives, representing a socially engaged, interdisciplinary departure from Iyer's work with his regular trio and signalling his broader compositional interests.
First released: 24th September 2013

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Here (Mike, Cambridge)
    3:08
  2. 2.
    Derelict Poetry (Maurice, Brooklyn)
    4:16
  3. 3.
    Capacity (Lynn, Bronx)
    3:57
  4. 4.
    Walking With the Duppy (Rashan, Queens)
    3:42
  5. 5.
    There Is a Man Slouching in the Stairway (Maurice, Brooklyn)
    3:59
  6. 6.
    My Fire (Brad, Chester, NC)
    3:09
  7. 7.
    On Patrol (Maurice, Brooklyn)
    4:54
  8. 8.
    Dream of an Ex-Ranger (William, Newton, MA)
    3:10
  9. 9.
    Name (Lynn, Bronx)
    3:38
  10. 10.
    Costume (Mike, Cambridge)
    4:08
  11. 11.
    Tormented Star of Morning (Maurice, Brooklyn)
    5:09
  12. 12.
    Patton (Calvin, Massapequa, NY)
    4:58
  13. 13.
    Shush (Maurice, Brooklyn)
    4:07
  14. 14.
    REM Killer (Kirk, Lexington, KY)
    3:48
  15. 15.
    Requiem for an Insomniac (Maurice, Brooklyn)
    5:14
  16. 16.
    Dreams in Color (Lynn, Bronx)
    2:39
  17. 17.
    Mess Hall (Merrin, San Diego)
    6:16

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