Under the Radar magazine wrote: <\/p>\n
Recorded in lockdown in Ireland, They\u2019re Calling Me Home is an homage to traditional songs that hold a special place in the hearts of musicians Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi. The duo\u2019s second album in two years features folk songs, lullabies, and spirituals, all of which have been influential to Giddens and Turrisi. Each track is an emotional glimpse of their musical DNA: reworked folk songs and lullabies, refreshed with the virtuosic pulse of two of the world\u2019s finest maestros.<\/p>\n
The concept of \u201chome\u201d is at the center of this record, but it\u2019s in the different ideas of home that compose the album\u2019s nervous system. There are, of course, the tracks that are important to Giddens and Turrisi: tracks that represent their musical homes. And then there are the tracks that remind the musicians of their literal homes: for Giddens, that\u2019s North Carolina; for Turrisi, Italy.<\/p>\n
\u201cSi Dolce \u00e8\u2019l Tormento\u201d is a madrigal from 1624, written by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. Here, Giddens delivers a haunting vocal performance, backed by Turrisi\u2019s dark cello banjo. And \u201cWaterbound,\u201d a song that dates back to the 1920s, is incredibly relevant for the distance between Giddens and her physical home: \u201cwaterbound and I can\u2019t get home, down to North Carolina\u201d comes the refrain.<\/p>\n
The traditional song, \u201cI Shall Not Be Moved,\u201d has a legacy that traces itself back hundreds of years, yet the life that Giddens breathes into the song is fresh and perfectly mapped to lockdown conditions. And the infamous spiritual \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d gets a rendition that bears resemblance to 2019\u2019s Giddens and Turrisi collaboration, There Is No Other, where the duo combined African and Arabic styles over their European and American influence.<\/p>\n
Albums like They\u2019re Calling Me Home are so effortlessly masterful, so mesmerizing, that the listener can write them off as easily replicable. But the work of Giddens and Turrisi is unique to them. Utterly perfect in its breadth and message, Home is, indeed, where the heart is.<\/p>\n
Tracklist:<\/p>\n
1 Calling Me Home (3:49)
\n 2 Avalon (3:54)
\n 3 Si Dolce \u00e8’l Tormento (3:56)
\n 4 I Shall Not Be Moved (4:58)
\n 5 Black as Crow (5:22)
\n 6 O Death (3:13)
\n 7 Niwel Goes to Town (3:22)
\n 8 When I Was in My Prime (4:06)
\n 9 Waterbound (3:57)
\n10 Bully for You (2:40)
\n11 Nenna Nenna (2:37)
\n12 Amazing Grace (3:55)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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