{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Architextures | type = Studio | artist = Vijay Iyer | cover = Architextures - cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1998|10|13}} | recorded = August 5 and September 4, 1996 | venue = | studio = OTR Studios, Belmont, CA | genre = Jazz | length = {{Duration|h=1|m=4|s=2}} | label = Asian Improv Records <small>AIR 0034</small> | producer = Vijay Iyer | prev_title = Memorophilia | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = Panoptic Modes | next_year = 2001 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adler|first1=David|title=Vijay Iyer: Architextures|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/architextures-mw0000602096|website=Allmusic |publisher=allmusic.com |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref> | rev2 = Tom Hull | rev2score=A–<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hull |first1=Tom |title=Tom Hull: Grade List: Vijay Iyer |url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Vijay+Iyer |publisher=tomhull.com |accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=751}}</ref> }}
'''''Architextures''''' is the second studio album by American jazz pianist Vijay Iyer recorded with eight musicians. The album was released on {{Start date|1998|10|13}} via Asian Improv Records label.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vijay Iyer – Architextures |url=https://www.discogs.com/Vijay-Iyer-Architextures/release/5990207 |website=Discogs |publisher=discogs.com |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref> The tracks 3, 4, 7, 9 were recorded by a trio of Iyer, Brock, and Hargreaves. The tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 were recorded by an octet. The tracks 1 and 12 were recorded solo by Iyer.
==Reception== Robert Spencer of All About Jazz stated: "Vijay Iyer is 'one of the most fascinating jazz pianists around,' says Berkeley's East Bay Express, and I couldn't have said it better myself. It is getting ever more difficult to hear someone with something really new to say, but ''Architextures'' should establish Vijay Iyer as a pianist to be reckoned with... ''Architextures'' amply rewards repeated listens and has made me, for one, make a note to look out for the man's next disc and even greater things to come."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spencer |first1=Robert |title=Vijay Iyer: Architextures |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/architextures-vijay-iyer-asian-improv-records-review-by-robert-spencer.php |website=All About Jazz |publisher=allaboutjazz.com |accessdate=7 June 2018 |date=April 1, 1998}}</ref>
David R. Adler of Allmusic noted: "As on his debut, 1995's ''Memorophilia'', Iyer is after a sound that combines modern jazz with elements inspired by the South Asian diaspora of which he is a part. The clearest references to non-Western music appear on 'Three Peas,' which features Mahanthappa and the two bassists. Otherwise, Iyer's multifarious influences are harder to separate or even detect, as they're deeply interwoven within the dense stew of rhythms and improvisational dialogues undertaken by both ensembles. There's an opaque quality and a relentless intensity in much of Iyer's music. Pianistically, he has something in common with non-traditional players such as Jason Moran and Ethan Iverson (neither of whom were prominent at the time of this recording). As a composer, Iyer draws upon figures such as Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor, and Steve Coleman, but he is clearly arriving at his own highly complex style."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adler|first1=David|title=Vijay Iyer: Architextures|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/architextures-mw0000602096|website=Allmusic |publisher=allmusic.com |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | collapsed = | headline = | total_length = 1:04:02 | all_writing = Vijay Iyer | all_lyrics = Vijay Iyer | all_music = Vijay Iyer | title_width = 450px
| title1 = Prelude: Paradise Lost | length1 = 2:30
| title2 = Meeting-of-Rivers | length2 = 8:36
| title3 = Microchips and Bullock Carts | length3 = 6:02
| title4 = Charms | length4 = 4:27
| title5 = Sadhu | length5 = 7:18
| title6 = Three Peas | length6 = 5:30
| title7 = Trident | length7 = 6:41
| title8 = Taste the Sea | length8 = 3:39
| title9 = Los Ojos | length9 = 6:09
| title10 = Utopia of a Tired Man | length10 = 4:45
| title11 = Journey Over Sands | length11 = 5:58
| title12 = Postlude: Prayer | length12 = 1:27 }}
==Personnel== '''Band''' *Vijay Iyer – liner notes, mixing, piano, producer *Jeff Brock – bass *Eric Crystal – sax (soprano), sax (tenor) *Liberty Ellman – guitar *Brad Hargreaves – drums *Aaron Stewart – sax (tenor) *Rudresh Mahanthappa – sax (alto) *Kevin Ellington Mingus – bass
'''Production''' *Matt Levine – mastering *Cookie Marenco – engineer, mixing
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