{"id":7492,"date":"2020-10-09T23:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:57:32","slug":"silkroad-ensembles-recording-of-osvaldo-golijovs-falling-out-of-time-is-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/silkroad-ensembles-recording-of-osvaldo-golijovs-falling-out-of-time-is-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Silkroad Ensemble’s Recording of Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time is Out Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silkroad Ensemble has released its eighth album, Falling Out of Time<\/em>,\u00a0written by longtime collaborator Osvaldo Golijov<\/a>. Falling Out of Time<\/em> is inspired by Israeli writer David Grossman’s eponymous novel by the same name. Golijov’s music tells the story of the incredible pain of a grieving mother and father over the unbearable loss of their son, as well as the solace and contemplation that comes from humanity\u2019s shared experience of death. Drawing from ballads of Central Asia and the early Delta Blues, Falling Out of Time is a tone poem in voices featuring thirteen Silkroad artists with immersive music that brings listeners into “a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt so happens that we all are, as a world, living in a moment in which the ‘natural’ order of things has been upended. More than ever, we are in need of stories that help us make sense of the broken pieces.\u201d
\nOsvaldo Golijov, Composer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing I noticed about Silkroad\u2019s new recording of Osvaldo Golijov\u2019s Falling Out of Time was its beauty. As I listened more, I was struck by how deeply rooted this work is\u2014rooted in places, in people, and in relationships. It\u2019s rare to hear something that is at once so personal and so interconnected, so specific and so global.
\nRhiannon Giddens, Silkroad Artistic Director<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen, download, and buy exclusively on Bandcamp<\/a> and AppleMusic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York Times feature on Osvaldo Golijov<\/a><\/p>\n

Critical Acclaim<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Osvaldo Golijov’s ‘Falling Out of Time’ for Silkroad Ensemble is a masterpiece as intellectually stimulating as it is emotionally gripping”
\nClassical Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Silkroad Ensemble Release a Haunting, Surreal New Osvaldo Golijov Epic<\/strong>
\n“Over the past practically three decades, the Silkroad Ensemble have been the world\u2019s great champions of a blend of music from south Asia, through the Arabic-speaking world and the west. Their latest album, Falling Out of Time \u2013 which hasn\u2019t hit the web yet \u2013 comprises a single, lavish, thirteen-part tone poem by contemporary classical composer Osvaldo Golijov, which hauntingly dovetails with the group\u2019s esthetic…Uneasy, fragmentary flickers from the strings followed by Wu Man\u2019s pipa join to introduce the simply titled Step, rising to a harrowing intensity. The Lynchian dub interlude afterward comes as another real shock…”
\nLucid Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

“Singer Wu Tong, as the bereaved father, and Biella Da Costa, as the wife who refuses to join him, bend their voices into a virtuoso range of extended techniques\u2014helped along by electronic manipulations of the sound…The painful subject matter and the nonstop intensity of Golijov\u2019s music leave the listener awed and overwhelmed. In the hands of the renowned Silkroad Ensemble, already one of the world\u2019s top new-music groups, Golijov\u2019s return has the perfect interpreters.”
\nStrings<\/a><\/p>\n

Critical Acclaim for Carnegie Hall Performance<\/strong>
\n“At Zankel, members of the Silkroad Ensemble gave voice to a father\u2019s cry across a dozen or so songs in 80 minutes. The use of folk idioms \u2014 Sephardic, Middle Eastern and something like the blues \u2014 made the performance eerily intimate and age-old, like a community\u2019s spirit had been cracked open. The piece provides a wide embrace, one that wrapped around me, too…Golijov built the sound world of \u201cFalling\u201d out of the Silkroad Ensemble\u2019s melting pot of instruments. There\u2019s a classical string quartet; a jazz bass; a kamancheh, a Persian bowed instrument; a pipa, a Chinese lute, which takes the place a zither might otherwise occupy in such music; a modular synthesizer; a drum kit; a one-man brass section; and three folk vocalists who approximate Near Eastern modes without actually using microtones…\u201c\u2019Falling\u2019 is so closely tied to the strengths of \u00adSilkroad, which commissioned the piece, that it\u2019s hard to imagine the trumpet part without Brantigan\u2019s intense feeling and astonishing control. Or the kamancheh without Kayhan Kalhor\u2019s liquid bowing. Or the pipa without Wu Man\u2019s delicacy.\u201d
\nThe New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

“The sound palette is diverse. Electric bass lines propel some sections almost in the \u00adfashion of rock music riffs…The small string section\u2019s harmonic writing can be described as a 21st-century viol consort. Adding a more vibrant edge was pipa player Wu Man, who sometimes gave extra muscle to the ensemble, but more significantly broke into \u00adplaintive solos. Perhaps the best music was in the purely instrumental sections, especially the electrifying duet played by violinist Johnny Gandelsman and Wu Man in which each player took turns with wild (though eloquent) flights of virtuosity…The handling of all these elements is a testament to Golijov\u2019s constructive talents. At its most effective, the music indeed captures the kind of grief that\u2019s almost physical, the sense that you\u2019ve ingested ground-up glass and that every part of you is ripping away at every other part of you.\u201d
\nMusical America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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