Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith Defiant Life
2025 CD
Avant-garde Jazz
Free Improvisation

Main image
ECM Records, ECM Records
design Sascha Kleis
engineer Stefano Amerio
liner notes [dialogue (english)] Vijay Iyer
liner notes [dialogue (english)] Vijay Iyer
liner notes [dialogue (english)] Wadada Leo Smith
liner notes [dialogue (english)] Wadada Leo Smith
liner notes [english] Vijay Iyer
photography by [liner photos] Caterina di Perri
piano, electric piano [fender rhodes], electronics Vijay Iyer
producer [produced by] Manfred Eicher
trumpet Wadada Leo Smith
Record Company ECM
Record Company RSI Rete Due
Phonographic Copyright (p) ECM Records GmbH
Copyright (c) ECM Records GmbH
Copyright (c) Vijay Iyer
Copyright (c) Wadada Leo Smith
Published By Sonocentric Publishing
Published By Kiom Music
Recorded At Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano
Glass Mastered At Sonopress
Floating River Requiem
for Patrice Lumumba

Kite
for Refaat Alareer

Recorded July 2024
Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

An ECM Production

All compositions © Vijay Iyer / Sonocentric Publishing (ASCAP)
and Wadada Leo Smith / Kiom Music (ASCAP) except
Floating River Requiem (for Patrice Lumumba)
© Wadada Leo Smith / Kiom Music (ASCAP),
Kite © Vijay Iyer / Sonocentric Publishing (ASCAP)

In collaboration with RSI Rete Due, Lugano

℗ © 2025 ECM Records GmbH, München [on O-card back; on tray card]
℗ © 2025 ECM Records GmbH [in booklet]
℗ 2025 ECM Records GmbH [on disc]

Printed in Germany
Barcode: 6 02475 30980 2 (Text)
Barcode: 602475309802 (Scanned)
Label Code: LC 02516
Matrix / Runout: 58537809/00602475309802 21 [Universal logo x 4]
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LP 73
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0707
SPARS Code: DDD
Rights Society: GEMA (On disc)
Rights Society: ASCAP (Sonocentric Publishing; Kiom Music)



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