The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – A Playlist Without Borders (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – A Playlist Without Borders (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:43 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Classical
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Founded by Yo-Yo Ma during the Project’s second year, the Silk Road Ensemble has featured more than 60 members from 24 countries. Hailed as “one of the 21st century’s great ensembles” by the Vancouver Sun and described as “a kind of roving musical laboratory without walls” by the Boston Globe, the genre-defying Ensemble is a broad collective of musicians who honor the value of each member and the flexibility and creativity of the group. The newest chapter comes with the Sony Masterworks release of the new album A Playlist Without Borders from the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. This is the groundbreaking group’s fifth recording and first since 2009’s Grammy-nominated Off the Map.

Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble has continued to develop its intercultural ways, exploring the cultures along the trade routes (maritime as well as land-based) that stretched for centuries from the Mediterranean world to China and even beyond. (The Silk Road brought Indian culture and later the Islamic faith to Indonesia, and one hopes that the group might someday take up that musically fascinating culture, so well suited to its syncretic way of thinking.) Ma has had the pleasure of seeing his creation gradually become more independent; he appears on several pieces but takes a starring role only once or twice. Generally he leaves the spotlight to the young players of the Silk Road Ensemble, whose trademark combination of enthusiasm and precision is on full display throughout. Sample the incredible intensity in the final Briel, taken from from John Zorn’s Book of Angels and further arranged by the ensemble itself. The program includes a general mix that typifies the group’s genre- and border-crossing ways, with highlights including a suite by MacArthur “genius grant” winner Vijay Iyer and the Central Asian gypsy jazz of David Bruce’s Cut the Rug.

Tracklist:
01. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part Zero (01:32)
02. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part One (01:53)
03. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part Two (03:38)
04. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part Three (02:06)
05. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part Four (02:29)
06. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part Five (03:01)
07. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Cristina’s Interlude (00:37)
08. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Playlist For An Extreme Occasion Part Six (02:42)
09. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Night Thoughts (06:14)
10. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Saidi Swing (07:30)
11. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Allegretto from Partita, Op. 31, for Cello Solo (03:34)
12. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Atashgah (14:00)
13. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Cut The Rug Drag The Goat (05:13)
14. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Cut The Rug Bury The Hatchet (05:35)
15. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Cut The Rug Move The Earth (09:31)
16. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Cut The Rug Wake The Dead (03:03)
17. The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma – Briel (03:58)

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