a lightness to the touch and a brisk

but as time went by I somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk attitude

Reyes mused on idea of sobriety

the record is a peek into the band's inner world on their home turf (the Hilarious Attic in Providence)

a funk band that also frequently features his daughter Hollis on vocals

PATRICK SHIROISHI - Forgetting Is Violent LP Mug a lightness to the touchForgetting is Violent, Patrick Shiroishis latest solo LP, is his most immediate release yet, expanding the scope not just of his music but of his extramusical considerations. Where his past releases on American Dreams reckoned with racism against Japanese Americans or presented Shiroishis saxophone as heard in a parking garage, Forgetting is Violent considers racism as a whole, historical and ongoing, with the urgency it deserves. Here, for the first