[ Nonesuch / Warner / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 3 May 2019
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Produced by Joe Henry and tracked over an intensely productive five-day period in Dublin, Ireland, There Is No Other is at once a condemnation of "othering" and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.
Tracing the overlooked movement of sounds from Africa and the Arabic world and their influence on European and American music, There Is No Other illuminates the universality of music and the commonality of the human experience. It primarily features only Giddens and Franceso Turrisi playing one or two instruments together.
There is no Other was recorded with little editing and overdubbing. Giddens sings and plays minstrel banjo, octave violin, and viola. Turrisi plays piano, accordion, frame drum, tamburello, lute, cello banjo, daf, and colascione. They are joined on four songs by Kate Ellis on cello.
1. Ten Thousand Voices
2. I'm Gonna Write Me a Letter
3. Wayfaring Stranger
4. there is no Other
5. Trees On The Mountains
6. Pizzica di San Vito
7. Brown Baby
8. Briggs' Forró
9. Little Margaret
10. Black Swan
11. I'm On My Way
12. He Will See You Through