Fieldwork - Thereupon [CD]

Cat. no: PI109
Format: CD
Barcode: 808713010923
Release Date: 05 Sep 2025
Genre: Jazz

Thereupon is the long-anticipated return of the jazz supergroup Fieldwork, which has been described by NPR as a "power trio for the new century

" They are a long-standing collective of three celebrated innovators of contemporary music: alto saxophonist Steve Lehman , pianist Vijay Iyer , and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. Since their last release - Door in 2008 - all three musicians have climbed to the pinnacle of the jazz and improvised music scene, receiving universal critical acclaim and top awards such as MacArthur Fellowships and a Pulitzer Prize and have each individually helped reshape the language of creative music over the last two decades. 

As a group, they continue to explode the possibilities of collective improvisation.

Fieldwork's music refects the sum part of jazz, modern composition, African and South Asian music, underground hip- hop, electronica, and the infuential music of Chicago's AACM, all funneled through a collective ethos. Their musical imagination is far ranging, with rigor, daring, and a unique aesthetic palette. Together they conjure a dense, visceral musical world, tightly unifed and high-impact, with a mysterious inner logic. The performances on Thereupon captures their state-of-the art interplay; they listen deeply, responding to one another with a rare intensity that blurs the lines between composition and improvisation. With this new chapter, Fieldwork reafrm their role as one of the era's most vital experimental units.

CD Tracks: Propaganda / Embracing Difference / Evening Rite / Fire City / Domain / Fantome / Astral / Thereupon / The Night Before