In What Language? 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 2003.

Joe Tangari of Pitchfork wrote, "What might make In What Language? truly important ... is that it's focused intently on probing social issues in meaningful ways." Chris Nickson of AllMusic commented, "Written originally to be performed on-stage in a theatrical setting, it transfers well to a purely recorded medium, dense and demanding, but ultimately satisfying, inasmuch as it leaves the listener full of questions and less certain about the world."... Anastasia Tsioulcas of Billboard wrote, "With Iyer working as composer and Ladd as librettist, the two weave together elements of jazz, hip-hop and spoken-word art into a new, subversive kind of song cycle." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KGLmQD_vU

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InWhatStrumentals
by Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd

A few weeks into lockdown in the Plague of 2020, as we took shelter from danger, loss, and uncertainty, Seth Rosner at Pi Recordings asked if I might be willing to offer some old or new music to the world. As it happened, I’d been thinking back to an earlier time of crisis, and how we had managed to make art in the face of it.

Poet-producer Mike Ladd and I created In What Language? in 2003, in post-9/11 New York City. We were just coming to terms with the facts on the ground, which today seem frighteningly ordinary: mounting intolerance and hate crimes against Muslims, Arabs, Sikhs, and other nonwhite people; traumatic raids of immigrant communities by the INS (later Homeland Security); the prospect of endless, amoral war waged under false pretenses..

Vijay Iyer
April 24, 2020
Harlem

https://vijayiyer.bandcamp.com/album/inwhatstrumentals

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Concert: Moers Festival 2025 (2) Iyer en Smith klasse apart!
https://writteninmusic.com/concertverslag/moers-festival-2025-2-iyer-en-smith-klasse-apart/

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#NowPlaying
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life

Absolutely amazing. Intriguing musical quests.

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A visit to Concerto, the local recordstore in Amsterdam.

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Estos músicos fabulosos, en un sello discográfico históricamente maravilloso.
Hace falta más? Abrir alma, corazón, y oídos!!!

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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life (2025)

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mQ8UVVExpPzvHYd3sgyParW7h9CsRZDgo

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DEFIANT LIFE de VIJAY IYER et WADADA LEO SMITH
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-jacques-birge/blog/170325/defiant-life-de-vijay-iyer-et-wadada-leo-smith

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily:
🎵 To Remain/To Return (excerpt)

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https://open.spotify.com/track/50gJubW06WlbN9zRqaSp6v