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Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project is the latest album to emerge from the ongoing collaboration of Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/performer/librettist/emcee Mike Ladd.
Holding It Down is a thought-provoking, sometimes frightening, and ultimately exhilarating combination of music, poetry and song, created from the actual dreams of young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project is a collaborative studio album by American jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and American hip hop musician Mike Ladd. It was released on Pi Recordings in 2013.
No.TitleWriter(s)Length1."Here" (Mike, Cambridge)Vijay IyerMike Ladd3:072."Derelict Poetry" (Maurice, Brooklyn)Maurice DecaulIyer4:153."Capacity" (Lynn, Bronx)Lynn HillIyer3:564."Walking with the Duppy" (Rashan, ...IyerLadd3:42- Jazz
Announcing the release of HOLDING IT DOWN: THE VETERANS' DREAMS PROJECT, the new album by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd, out September 10 on Pi Recordings.
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10 set 2013 · Holding It Down: The Veterans Dreams Project is the latest astonishing album to emerge from the longtime collaboration of Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/performer/librettist/emcee Mike Ladd.
31 ott 2013 · With the help of two poets' first-person accounts, Marine Maurice Decaul and Air Force drone pilot Lynn Hill, the project delivers the lives, fears, hopes, memories, and illusions and delusions of veterans of color. The dreams spoken are so powerful, it is possible to ignore the music.
20 set 2012 · “Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project,” the third long-form collaboration between the jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer and the poet Mike Ladd, is a multimedia work about...
