Osvaldo Golijov: Falling Out of Time

by Silkroad Ensemble, Osvaldo Golijov

Overview

This release from late 2020 marked the return to the scene of composer Osvaldo Golijov, who had remained compositionally silent for some years after a plagiarism controversy. The album offers a single work, in 13 sections of different lengths, setting texts by Golijov himself that distill a novel by Israeli writer David Grossman. The book is rooted in Grossman's experience of losing his son in Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon, and Golijov adapts it into a more general memorial processional. The work was commissioned by the Silkroad Ensemble and is dedicated to The Parents' Circle, an Israeli-Palestinian group of people who have lost their children in the ongoing fighting in the Middle East. It is recognizably Golijov, with influences coming in from the various national traditions represented in the Silkroad Ensemble, and the mood can shift abruptly from tragic to strangely upbeat. Yet, the overall feel is different from the music Golijov wrote ten years previously. Partly, it's the seriousness of the subject matter, but it's not only that. The work does not have the feeling of pastiche, and when styles extrinsic to the basic bleak mood are deployed, they have a specific purpose. This does not make Falling Out of Time better or worse than Golijov's still highly popular earlier music, it just means that, like other composers do as their careers develop, he has begun to think about musical structure in a new way. The texts, in Hebrew and English, are included in the booklet, but there is also a detailed synopsis, and listeners are encouraged to try listening, at least at first, only with that as an aid. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	10/09/2020
Label:	In A Circle
UPC:	0760137420224
Rank:	203578

Tracks

1. Falling Out of Time~Heart Murmur
2. Falling Out of Time~Night Messengers
3. Falling Out of Time~Come, Chaos
4. Falling Out of Time~Step
5. Falling Out of Time~Come, Son
6. Falling Out of Time~In Procession
7. Falling Out of Time~Pierce the Skies
8. Falling Out of Time~Walking
9. Falling Out of Time~If You Meet Him
10. Falling Out of Time~Fly
11. Falling Out of Time~Go Now
12. Falling Out of Time~Ayeka (Where Are You?)
13. Falling Out of Time~Breathe

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Silkroad Ensemble   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Osvaldo Golijov   Primary Artist
Biella Da Costa   Vocals
Wu Tong   Vocals
Nora Fischer   Vocals
Jamey Haddad   Percussion

Technical Credits

Shane Shanahan   Artistic Director
Jeremy Flower   Producer
Alex Venguer   Editing Engineer
Oscar Zambrano   Mastering Engineer
Christopher Kornmann   Design,Art Direction
Mary Frank   Artwork
Jody Elff   Engineer
David O'Connor   Photography
Cristin Canterbury   Executive Producer
Jessica Shuttleworth   Marketing
David Grossman   Liner Notes
Jessica Cohen   Text Translation
Leah Hager Cohen   Liner Notes
Osvaldo Golijov   Composer,Liner Notes,Text Adaptation
Liz Keller   Producer,Artistic Director
Kevin Killen   Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Johnny Gandelsman   Producer
Nicholas Cords   Artistic Director