Historicity

While searching through some recommended jazz blogs, I came across a reference to Vijay Iyer on Darcy James Argue's Secret Society page. In keeping with talk of Moran's reworking of "Planet Rock", it came to mind that Iyer did a version of MIA's "Galang" on his piano trio album Historicity. The album was named 2010 Album of the Year by Downbeat's International Critics' Poll. This version tends toward deconstruction of the original, namely the syncopated rhythm of the first part of the song and then the melody of the outro. It's also fun to revisit MIA's earlier music videos, long before the days of exploding body parts.

Here's "Galang" from Arular.

M.I.A. Galang - Music video from marco ammannati on Vimeo.

And Vijay Iyer's version from Historicity.