Fresh off a tour with The Armed, and on the heels of countless releases and collaborations, Patrick Shiroishi's music is as vital and stirring as ever on I Was Too Young To Hear Silence. Where his breakout release, 2021's Hidemi, used choruses of saxophones and vocals to memorialize his grandfather, I Was Too Young To Hear Silence expands the scope of his remembrance. Shiroishi's chosen instruments are alto saxophone, glockenspiel, and a cavernous parking garage through which the former's melodies reverberate. It's an apt setting for Shiroishi's continuing confrontation of the legacy of Japanese concentration camps.1. stand still like a hummingbird2. i almost said3. The soil things grew from 4. tule lake blues5. how will we get back to life again?6. rain, after running away7. is it possible to send promises backwards?8. hunting the eye of his own storm9. if only heaven would give me another ten years
