Sing Me Home
Produced by silk road ensemble member johnny gandelsman and grammy award® winner Kevin Killen U2, Elvis Costello, Sing Me Home examines the ever-changing idea of home, David Bowie, Kate Bush, with original and traditional tunes composed or arranged by members of the Ensemble s unique collective of global artists.
Each piece invites listeners to explore the music of home through the individual experiences of Ensemble members, many of whom are immigrants. The result is a compelling collection of innovative and deeply moving tributes to the rich cultural heritage of the Balkans, Japan, Iran, China, Galicia, India, Ireland, Mali people of Roma, Syria and the United States.
Sing me home is a companion album, developed and recorded alongside the music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, a documentary feature film from Oscar® and Emmy®-winning director Morgan Neville that tells the story of the Ensemble and Silk Road, its parent organization. The new album from yo-yo ma & the Silk Road Ensemble will surprise and delight with imaginative sounds that transform the traditional musical landscape.
The music of strangers will be released theatrically nationwide in June and will air on HBO in the fall. Silkroadproject. Orgmasterworksmusic.
A Playlist Without Borders
With a playlist without borders, the Silk Road Ensemble once again demonstrates that there are no barriers for those approaching music with an open mind. Yo-yo ma's silk road project has been on a mission to promote innovation and cross-cultural understanding through the arts for the last 15 years; the latest chapter comes with their new album, A Playlist Without Borders.
The silk road ensemble with yo-yo ma's a playlist Without Borders is the groundbreaking group's fifth recording and the first since 2009's Grammy® nominated Off the Map.
When Strangers Meet - Silk Road Journeys
New Impossibilities
The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan
A playlist without borders by The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma.
Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
Off the Map
Off the map is a testament to that transformation, as the Silk Road Project celebrates its 10th anniversary. A playlist without borders by The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. Creation of the world is at the center of Evan Ziporyn's Sulvasutra. Shrink-wrapped. Over the years, the silk road ensemble has evolved from a group of strangers, brought together by artistic director Yo Yo Ma, into a close-knit band of friends.
Angel lam's childhood memories emerge in Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain -- an urban groove of Hong Kong carried by shakuhachi and bass. Shrink-wrapped. Osvaldo golijov's air to air invokes a sicilian protest song, prayers to Holy Mother Guadalupe and songs from the Christian Arab Easter service, known to millions across the Middle East through recordings by the incomprable Lebanese singer Fairouz.
The album features the playing of such renowned superstars as Kayhan Kalhor, Cristina Pato, and Wu Tong, Wu Man, yet it is the Silk Road Ensemble's collective spirit that shines throug, proving great things can happen when strangers meet. Yo yo ma, chicago symphony Orchestra, The Silk Road Ens.
Migrations
Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla
Latina
Pato has become a member of Yo Yo Ma s celebrated Silk Road Ensemble, which has toured the world. Shrink-wrapped. The tremendous galician bagpiper and pianist cristina Pato decided to further explore one of these chains of cultural adaptation, specifically through the evolution of six beat rhythmic patterns originating in the Latin music of Europe and migrating to South America.
Although originally referring to a group resident in the Italian peninsula, the term Latinos/Latinas is now generally used to refer to individuals whose ancestry stems from Spanish origins. Shrink-wrapped. For latina, pato commissioned her friend and bassist edward Perez to write music that would frame the journey of a specific rhythm with roots in Italy and Spain across the Atlantic where it ingrained itself in a multitude of musical cultures, including Peru and Colombia.
Through her musical investigations, pato discovered the recurrent use of a 6/8 pattern six beats of quarter notes in a waltz-like feel from the tarantellas of Italy all the way to the Afro-Peruvian style of landó on the Pacific coast of South America. In the same way that latin based languages have spread widely, the musical elements of Latin cultures have been propagated across continents.
The concept for pato s Latina stemmed from her fascination with the word and what it has come to mean.