Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = All About Jazz

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/holding-it-down-the-veterans-dreams-project-vijay-iyer-pi-recordings-review-by-mark-corroto.php|title=Vijay Iyer / Mike Ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project|work=All About Jazz|first=Mark|last=Corroto|date=October 31, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev2 = Financial Times

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/7572ad9c-39e6-11e3-81d0-00144feab7de|title=Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: Holding it Down: The Veterans Dreams Project|work=Financial Times|first=Mike|last=Hobart|date=October 25, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev3 = The Irish Times

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/vijay-iyer-mike-ladd-holding-it-down-the-veterans-dreams-project-1.1602709|title=Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: Holding it Down: The Veterans Dreams Project|work=The Irish Times|first=Cormac|last=Larkin|date=November 22, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev4 = JazzTimes

| rev4score = favorable{{cite web|url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/vijay-iyer-mike-ladd-holding-it-down-the-veterans-dreams-project/|title=Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project|work=JazzTimes|first=Bill|last=Beuttler|date=December 21, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev5 = Los Angeles Times

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-veterans-dreams-20130910-story.html|title=Review: 'Holding It Down' awakens us to veterans' dreams|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Chris|last=Barton|date=September 10, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev6 = MusicOMH

| rev6score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/vijay-iyer-mike-ladd-holding-veterans-dream-project|title=Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd – Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dream Project|work=MusicOMH|first=Daniel|last=Paton|date=September 30, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev7 = PopMatters

| rev7score = {{Rating|8|10}}{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/176855-vijay-iyer-mike-ladd-holding-it-down-the-veterans-dreams-project-2495705329.html|title=Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project|work=PopMatters|first=John|last=Garratt|date=December 8, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}

| rev8 = Tom Hull

| rev8score=B+{{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}}

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Daniel Paton of MusicOMH gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "compelling and beautiful; troubling and moving in equal measure." Mike Hobart of Financial Times gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, writing, "Each track is stalked by the fear, guilt and surrealism of the post-traumatic dreams that were culled from scores of interviews."

{{Track listing

| title1 = Here

| note1 = Mike, Cambridge

| writer1 = {{hlist|Vijay Iyer|Mike Ladd}}

| length1 = 3:07

| title2 = Derelict Poetry

| note2 = Maurice, Brooklyn

| writer2 = {{hlist|Maurice Decaul|Iyer}}

| length2 = 4:15

| title3 = Capacity

| note3 = Lynn, Bronx

| writer3 = {{hlist|Lynn Hill|Iyer}}

| length3 = 3:56

| title4 = Walking with the Duppy

| note4 = Rashan, Queens

| writer4 = {{hlist|Iyer|Ladd}}

| length4 = 3:42

| title5 = There Is a Man Slouching in the Stairway

| note5 = Maurice, Brooklyn

| writer5 = {{hlist|Decaul|Iyer}}

| length5 = 3:59

| title6 = My Fire

| note6 = Brad, Chester

| writer6 = {{hlist|Iyer|Ladd}}

| length6 = 3:09

| title7 = On Patrol

| note7 = Maurice, Brooklyn

| writer7 = {{hlist|Decaul|Iyer}}

| length7 = 4:53

| title8 = Dream of an Ex-Ranger

| note8 = William, Newton

| writer8 = {{hlist|Iyer|Ladd}}

| length8 = 3:09

| title9 = Name

| note9 = Lynn, Bronx

| writer9 = {{hlist|Hill|Iyer}}

| length9 = 3:37

| title10 = Costume

| note10 = Mike, Cambridge

| writer10 = {{hlist|Iyer|Ladd}}

| length10 = 4:08

| title11 = Tormented Star of Morning

| note11 = Maurice, Brooklyn

| writer11 = {{hlist|Decaul|Iyer}}

| length11 = 5:09

| title12 = Patton

| note12 = Calvin, Massapequa

| writer12 = {{hlist|Iyer|Ladd}}

| length12 = 4:58

| title13 = Shush

| note13 = Maurice, Brooklyn

| writer13 = {{hlist|Decaul|Iyer}}

| length13 = 4:06

| title14 = REM Killer

| note14 = Kirk, Lexington

| writer14 = {{hlist|Iyer|Ladd}}

| length14 = 3:48

| title15 = Requiem for an Insomniac

| note15 = Maurice, Brooklyn

| writer15 = {{hlist|Decaul|Iyer}}

| length15 = 5:14

| title16 = Dreams in Color

| note16 = Lynn, Bronx

| writer16 = {{hlist|Hill|Iyer}}

| length16 = 2:39

| title17 = Mess Hall

| note17 = Merrin, San Diego

| writer17 = {{hlist|Ladd|Pamela Z}}

| length17 = 6:15

| total_length = 70:04

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Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Vijay Iyer – piano, electric piano, electronics, production, programming, liner notes
• Mike Ladd – vocals, analogue synthesizer, liner notes
• Maurice Decaul – vocals
• Lynn Hill – vocals
• Pamela Z – vocals
• Guillermo E. Brown – vocals, effects
• Liberty Ellman – guitar, mixing
• Okkyung Lee – cello
• Kassa Overall – drums

{{Reflist}}

• {{Discogs release|4929636|Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project}}

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Category:Pi Recordings albums