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Vijay Iyer’s New Trio is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Talented Parts Craig Marsden At the end of the album version of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Can It Be All So Simple,” RZA’s grimy, chest-rattling beat fades into an early-90s radio review featuring Clan members Raekwon and Method Man. They’re explaining the “why” behind the Shaolin crew’s colorful monikers, and as he explains GZA’s genius, Method Man likens the complete Wu-Tang to Voltron. You know, this thing: It’s that veritable 1980s cartoon super-bot made of smaller bots; a mech-amalgam with its individual members coming together to form a powerful whole greater than the sum of its parts.

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