The multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi has made so much beautiful music: under his own name, with groups like Fuubutsushi, and as a sideman for countless artists from the Armed to Claire Rousay. He’s got a new solo album coming in September called Forgetting Is Violent. It’s a meditation on the history of racism and colonialism: “Stemming back to my ancestors, and the stolen land that we live on—there’s just so much of this racism that is so alive and well, and so apparent, and continues to be apparent in our country and around the world,” Shiroishi says in a press release. “Something that cannot be forgotten.”
