Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - Still Life with Commentator

Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd join forces once again for Still Life With Commentator, something of a follow-up to In What Languagenull Both these projects are decidedly different than Iyer's albums as sole leader, in that Ladd's poetry is up front and the music plays a somewhat smaller role in terms of the focus. Still Life With Commentator is a series of poetic ruminations on information inundation in today's society. The music is often dark and claustrophobic, with beats that mimic teletype machines or clattering keyboards -- a musical analogue for the constant streams of information bombarding us on a daily basis. Read More