{"product_id":"defiant-life","title":"Defiant Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, \u003cem\u003eDefiant Life\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cstrong\u003eVijay Iyer\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eWadada Leo Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e's second duo recording for ECM – proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the suffering and resilience it entails.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal iridescence glistens between Leo Smith’s unmistakable trumpet wail and Vijay’s textural key strokes on piano and Fender Rhodes, conjuring multi-dimensional spaces of thoughtful musical conversation. “We work from our individual languages and materials,” notes Vijay in his extensive liner note, as well as “our methods of aural attunement, and what I would call a shared aesthetic of necessity”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA necessity both urgent and peaceful, ominously stated in the first long track “Sumud”, then dressed in bluesy undertones throughout the “Floating River Requiem”, still doubtful but with silver linings on “Elegy: The Pilgrimage” and devastatingly beautiful in the concluding “Procession: Defiant Life”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf the album is a contemplation on life as such, then it is its sense of wonder that comes to full expression here. Recorded within two days at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo, \u003cem\u003eDefiant Life\u003c\/em\u003e was produced by Manfred Eicher.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":51406676623691,"sku":"R5694-1657","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51522250834251,"sku":"R5694-9513","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/CS1070143-01A-BIG_79dfb6f0-a9aa-4946-aeb6-c267ae298ece.jpg?v=1752234298","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/defiant-life","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}