{"id":9102,"date":"2021-08-13T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2021-08-13T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:53:17","slug":"yo-yo-ma-to-release-notes-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/yo-yo-ma-to-release-notes-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo-Yo Ma to Release “Notes For the Future”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yo-Yo Ma joins artists from five continents on forthcoming album Notes For the Future<\/em>, available September 10.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, Mashrou\u2019 Leila + Narcy, Tunde Olaniran, Jeremy Dutcher, Andrea Motis, ABAO, Lila Downs, and Marlon Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to the new single “Blewu” with Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma announces his new album, Notes for the Future<\/em>, set for release on September 10, 2021 on Sony Classical and available now for preorder.<\/p>\n

Notes for the Future<\/em> brings together extraordinary artists from five continents: across nine tracks, Ma joins Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, Mashrou\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

Notes for the Future<\/em> captures the full range of human emotion, from the lament of the album\u2019s lead single, a collaborative version of \u201cBlewu\u201d with Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo (named \u201cAfrica’s premier diva\u201d by TIME<\/em>), to the energetic prayer for home in \u201cHa\u2019oud (I Will Return)\u201d from Ma and Beirut-based rock band Mashrou\u2019 Leila (dubbed \u201cthe Arab world\u2019s most influential independent band\u201d by Financial Times<\/em>). Like so much of Ma\u2019s work, Notes for the Future<\/em> is at once profoundly global and deeply rooted at home, with tracks from the Americas including: \u201cDoorway,\u201d an optimistic ballad of connection from Ma and Flint, Michigan-based musician Tunde Olaniran; Ma\u2019s stark solo performance of the Calvary Ostinato from the late Chicago composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson\u2019s seminal \u201cLamentations, \u2018Black\/Folk Song Suite;\u2019\u201d and \u201cHonor Song,\u201d a Mi\u2019kmaq anthem from Ma and Jeremy Dutcher that invokes our collective responsibility to care for the planet we share.<\/p>\n

Originally inspired by the Bach Project, Yo-Yo Ma\u2019s global journey to explore how culture can help us imagine and build a better world, these nine tracks \u2014 featuring vocals in Arabic, Zapotec, Catalan, Paiwan, Spanish, Mi\u2019kmaq, Wolastoqey, Ewe, Maori, and English \u2014 celebrate the wisdom of the generations that were and the possibility of those to come.<\/p>\n

Tracklisting:<\/strong>
\n1. Lamentations, “Black\/Folk Song Suite”: III. Calvary Ostinato (by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
\n2. Honor Song (with Jeremy Dutcher)
\n3. Doorway (with Tunde Olaniran)
\n4. Blewu (with Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo)
\n5. Ha’oud (I Will Return) (with Mashrou’ Leila feat. Narcy)
\n6. El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds) (with Andrea Motis)
\n7. La Sandunga (with Lila Downs)
\n8. Thank You (with ABAO)
\n9. Te Whak\u0101roha Nui (with Marlon Williams)<\/p>\n

Explore the album.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yo-Yo Ma joins artists from five continents on forthcoming album Notes For the Future, available September 10. With Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, Mashrou\u2019 Leila + Narcy, Tunde Olaniran, Jeremy Dutcher, Andrea Motis, ABAO, Lila Downs, and Marlon Williams Listen to the new single “Blewu” with Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo now. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma announces his new album, Notes for … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3636,3633,7010,7063,3868,4437],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}