Going Home is the ninth track on the album Sing Me Home by Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.
The album contains a total of 13 pieces of music and is a soundtrack released in conjunction with the music documentary Exotic Strings: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.
The melody of Homecoming is taken from the second movement of Czech composer Dvořák's Ninth Symphony (From the New World). Grammy Award-winning outstanding banjo player and singer Abigail Washburn, in collaboration with Wu Tong of the Silk Road Ensemble, blended a soft feeling in english and Chinese bilingual duet.
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On February 12, 2017, the album won the "Best World Music Album" award at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. "Sing nostalgia" was created by Kevin Keelen, a Grammy Award producer who once worked for U2, Kate Bush, David Bowie and other heavenly diva artist groups, and Gandesman, the main brain member of the Silk Road Ensemble, giving the concept of "home".
This Silk Road, once walked by camels and caravans, now the melody reverberates, the rhythm jumps, and the trade route of a thousand years ago is now conceived into a strange and magical music network, which is the "Silk Road Project" led by the Chinese cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Conceived and formed since 1998, combining the top musicians from more than 20 countries in the East and the West of the Silk Road, the first "Silk Road" album set a record of 250,000 copies worldwide, coupled with many years of touring the world, which represents the "Silk Road Project" of music without borders to become the most outstanding representative of world music in contemporary times.
Each piece represents the unique understanding and meaning of the orchestra members for "home". This is their yearning and ideal for "home" from the depths of their hearts, and also symbolizes the rich musical cultural heritage from the Balkan Peninsula, China, Galicia, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Syria and other places.