Monday, August 19th, 2024. Nai Tapas, East Village, Manhattan.—With support from Fat Tire, The Wild Honey Pie hosted an intimate Dinner Party with Nashville-based Tennessee Indie Rock Musician, Annie DiRusso.
Why do we write songs? To know that we are alive.”
Accompanied by notes emanating underneath fingerless gloves and illuminated by the orange tint of a golden hour Arkansas sun, violinist and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi, who performs as Kishi Bashi, provides a soundtrack to the now desolate Jerome War Relocation Center. It is a place whose history that seems to match the cold: one of ten sites used for the forced relocation of Japanese Americans shortly after Pearl Harbor. A smokestack stands as a visual reminder. The frost seems to fit the memory too.