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Track Listings
1 | Attaboy |
2 | Quarter Chicken Dark |
3 | Helping Hand |
4 | Where's My Bow? |
5 | Here and Heaven |
6 | Franz and the Eagle |
7 | Less Is Moi |
8 | Hill Justice |
9 | No One but You |
10 | 13:8 |
11 | Goat Rodeo |
Editorial Reviews
Yo-Yo Ma follows up his Gold-Certified SONGS OF JOY AND PEACE with a landmark Americana album project. In the tradition of APPALACHIAN JOURNEY and OBRIGADO BRAZIL, Yo-Yo Ma once again embraces styles and traditions that go beyond classical music by bringing together four American string virtuosos and creating a new kind of chamber ensemble. THE GOAT RODEO SESSIONS is a landmark album project which uniquely showcases cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin player Chris Thile, with special guest vocalist, Aoife O'Donovan on two tracks.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 3.52 ounces
- Manufacturer : Sony Classical
- Item model number : 22835366
- Original Release Date : 2011
- Run time : 57 minutes
- Date First Available : August 6, 2011
- Label : Sony Classical
- ASIN : B005G5NPIS
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,148 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,067 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma have collaborated successfully before on albums such as Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey , but this album reaches new levels of musical interest and variety. In this collaboration, they've added two more fabulous musicians to the mix: Chris Thile on mandolin (originally of Nickel Creek fame) and Stuart Duncan on fiddle (session musician with the big names in Nashville). This album relies primarily on instrumental work, but each track has a unique sound. The album never sounds repetitive. At times, the musicians even pull out instruments we're not used to hearing them play: we hear Meyer on the gamba and piano, Duncan on the banjo and mandolin, and Thile on the guitar, fiddle, gamba, and vocals.
The album flows well, and I enjoyed it in its entirety. "Here and Heaven" and "No One but You," which both include vocalist Aoife O'Donovan, are particularly wonderful. I also thoroughly enjoyed "Less is Moi," with its catchy and surprising rhythm. I think my favorite track, though, was "Franz the Eagle" -- I can't get over the beauty of the piano and cello duet in this haunting and majestic piece.
The one problem is that the album is slightly frontloaded, with the energetic stuff within the first couple tracks, and then more emotive and slower pieces in the middle, sandwiched by a fun song or two at the end. I don't like it when artists do this, since it feels like they're tricking me with fun songs and then leave me in an emotional desert for 40 minutes. The songs in the middle are quality and great, but definitely slower.
But these might be the most talented musicians ever, so I guess if anyone's going to leave me in a music desert I guess I would rather be stuck there with Yo Yo Ma.
The best way I can describe "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" is a mix of "Uncommon Ritual" and "Appalachia Waltz". In other words, this album is amazing.
Highly recommended.
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新曲として紡ぎ出されることが素晴らしい。
Great Goat sessions!
This collection is stellar. I can either sit and listen to it intently, or put it on as background, and do things like work on my novel to the tracks--it's that kind of CD. Each track has the ability to stick in the head in a good way, and I find myself not skipping tracks, but playing the CD straight through. Each track develops a musical theme--which becomes instantly recognisable and memorable--much like classical music does. The theme weaves through, gets treatment by different instrumental groupings, returns to the original, goes off into unexpected directions.
I would describe the style of this CD as elegant as opposed to lush, in that nothing is ever done for show-offy reasons, and the musical integrity itself takes precedence over everything else--including the virtuosity of the performers. They are happy to play 'simple' when the music calls for it. This is a collaboration made in heaven ...but then so are The Punch Brothers. Some musical groupings just 'work.' This one certainly does.
And speaking of heaven ...the track "Here and Heaven"--one of only two vocal tracks on the album--is one of Chris Thile's best lyrical and musical offerings to date. As in so many of his songs, the meaning of the lyrics doesn't gel immediately, because the quality of the music is so high and proves an initial distraction. But when the meanings of the lyrics do fall into place ...as these did for me only this morning ...I am stunned by his maturity as a lyricist. This one encapsulates EXACTLY the fears and restrictions we feel as we get older and our lives are more than half lived, and we become conservative in the sense that we fear taking chances that may leave us with nothing. We prefer lukewarm to hot or cold as we wait around for things to get worse. I can't believe he knows this already, as he's only in his early 30s. Just wonderful stuff.
I honestly can't see anybody disliking this CD, no matter what your musical preferences might be. It straddles so many genres, and does it so well. These people are truly gems of our generation, as their multiple awards indicate. I look forward to more collaborations.