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Patrick Shiroishi<\/a> has a new solo album on the way, Hidemi<\/em>, and we were instantly and utterly taken by the first single, the compelling \u2018Tule Lake Like Yesterday<\/a>\u2019, when it emerged last month. A multilayered woodwind record, Hidemi<\/em> was written and performed in its entirety by Shiroishi and is a tribute to his grandfather and his personal experience after getting out of Japanese-American concentration camps. “It’s a gentle attempt at a Looney Tunes\/Carl Stalling type of thing, where we’re getting a 1-to-1 fraudulent representation on screen of the sounds we hear. A tiptoeing porky pig sounds like a xylophone ascending. A puppet shaking an ancient bowl sounds like this.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Watch the video for ‘To Kill A Wind-Up Bird’ below and watch out for the release of Hidemi<\/em> on October 29th through American Dreams<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nWith just over a month to go until the album drops, the Japanese American saxophonist and composer is enticing us again with a new single, ‘To Kill A Wind-Up Bird’, a gorgeous and exhilarating track we cannot stop listening to. The song comes with a video made by visual artist Dylan Pecora, who had this to say about it:<\/p>\n\n