Yo-Yo Ma – Notes for the Future (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:11 minutes | 673 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma announces his new album, Notes for the Future, set for release on September 10, 2021 on Sony Classical and available now for preorder.
Notes for the Future brings together extraordinary artists from five continents: across nine tracks, Ma joins Ang’elique Kidjo, Mashrou’ Leila + Narcy, Tunde Olaniran, Jeremy Dutcher, Andrea Motis, ABAO, Lila Downs, and Marlon Williams to explore our fears and hopes, reminding us that the future is ours to shape, together.
Notes for the Future captures the full range of human emotion, from the lament of the album’s lead single, a collaborative version of “Blewu” with Ang’elique Kidjo (named “Africa’s premier diva” by TIME), to the energetic prayer for home in “Ha’oud (I Will Return)” from Ma and Beirut-based rock band Mashrou’ Leila (dubbed “the Arab world’s most influential independent band” by Financial Times). Like so much of Ma’s work, Notes for the Future is at once profoundly global and deeply rooted at home, with tracks from the Americas including: “Doorway,” an optimistic ballad of connection from Ma and Flint, Michigan-based musician Tunde Olaniran; Ma’s stark solo performance of the Calvary Ostinato from the late Chicago composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s seminal “Lamentations, ‘Black/Folk Song Suite;’” and “Honor Song,” a Mi’kmaq anthem from Ma and Jeremy Dutcher that invokes our collective responsibility to care for the planet we share.
Tracklist:
01. Yo-Yo Ma – Lamentations, “Black/Folk Song Suite”: III. Calvary Ostinato (03:17)
02. Yo-Yo Ma – Honor Song (04:47)
03. Yo-Yo Ma – Doorway (03:49)
04. Yo-Yo Ma – Blewu (02:51)
05. Yo-Yo Ma – Ha’oud (I Will Return) (03:45)
06. Yo-Yo Ma – El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds) (06:08)
07. Yo-Yo Ma – La Sandunga (04:18)
08. Yo-Yo Ma – Thank You (04:11)
09. Yo-Yo Ma – Te Whakaroha Nui (02:02)
