Music From The Song Film: Omoiyari - Vinyle Bleu

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"Omoiyari" means to have empathy and consideration for others, and to act accordingly. American indie-folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Kishi Bashi is releasing the album to accompany his forthcoming documentary film, titled Music from the Song Film: Omoiyari. Composed of two discs – “The Songs” and “The Score”—the album presents what is essentially the soundtrack to Omoiyari, the feature film co-directed by Kishi Bashi, aka Kaoru Ishibashi or K. Focusing on K’s six-year journey of discovery around his research into the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, the film is both a social justice documentary and an experimental musical film. The album includes live improvisations, many of which were recorded at the sites of the concentration camps. Written during and about the artist’s transformative deep dive into his personal identity, and serving as a sweeping investigation into the Japanese American experience as well as incarceration, Music from the Song Film: Omoiyari spotlights the process and power of one of modern indie’s most talented musicians. For fans of Ra Ra Riot, Thao, Regina Spektor, Andrew Bird, Typhoon.