Sing me home / Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 88875181012 | MasterworksLanguage: Multiple languages Original language: English Publisher: [New York, NY] : Sony Music Entertainment/Masterworks, [2016]Copyright date: ℗2016Description: 1 audio disc (72 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | CD | CLASSICAL Ma, Yo-Yo & Silk Road Ensemble | Available | 33111008655249 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The potential buyer encountering this release by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble is apt to form several mistaken impressions of its contents. From the track list and accompanying description, you will learn that it is "the companion album to the Morgan Neville documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble." And the long list of "featured" artists suggests the type of lazy, all-star album famous artists tend to phone in during the later stages of their careers. Neither of these impressions correspond with the considerable riches here. The music is entirely effective independently of the little-publicized film. And, more importantly, the real "featured artists" here are not the named stars (who skew toward younger members of the new acoustic scene like bluegrasser Sarah Jarosz), but the members of the Silkroad Ensemble themselves. The structure of the album, as with so many of the creations of these remarkable artists, is unique. The Silkroad members, and a few visitors, select music of personal significance to them, many of them related in a general way to the theme of home. Then, a guest musician with skills appropriate to the music was added. With a range of source material running from Heart and Soul to Mali to the Balkans to East Asia, the resulting fusions are never less than interesting and are often marvelous. Sample the much-recorded St. James Infirmary Blues (track 11) in its unique realization here with accordionist Michael Ward Bergeman (one of the guest Silkroaders), Chinese yangqin player Reylon Yount, and the wonderful blues-country vocalist Rhiannon Giddens, a border crosser herself. The album gives insights into the histories of the Silkroad players, and indeed into the musical and personal depths that have made this ensemble one for the ages, and its leader a true musical exemplar of our time. ~ James Manheim
Title from container.
Yo-Yo Ma, cello ; Silk Road Ensemble ; with featured performers.
Compact disc.
Green (Vincent's tune) (featuring Roomful of Teeth) (4:21) -- O'Neill's Cavalry march (featuring Martin Hayes) (2:43) -- Little birdie (featuring Sarah Jarosz) (2:49) -- Ichichila (featuring Toumani Diabate and Balla Kouyate) (6:31) -- Sadila jana (featuring Black Sea Hotel) (3:26) -- Shingashi song (featuring Kaoru Watanabe) (5:06) -- Madhoushi (featuring Shujaat Khan) (9:36) -- Wedding (featuring Dima Orsho) (6:08) -- Going home (featuring Abigail Washburn) (5:32) -- Cabaliño (featuring Anxo Pintos, Davide Salvado and Roberto Comesaña) (7:42) -- St. James Infirmary blues (featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Michael Ward-Bergemen and Reylon Yount) (7:23) -- If you shall return (featuring Bill Frisell) (6:50) -- Heart and soul (featuring Lisa Fischer and Gregory Porter) (3:55).
The companion album to the Morgan Neville documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble. This is the artists' most personal album to date with multicultural vocals, instruments, and musicians that share what their home sounds like to them. The songs included are ones that Ensemble members have written or arranged for the group over the years that celebrates cultural differences and friendships.
Some songs sung in various languages.