… it was just the crush of ghosts. That’s what I feel. And especially with the multimedia aspect, all the projections, all those dead people behind me, even though I’ve sort of shifted more to beautiful home movies than a lot of the old war footage I used to put on the screen. And internment camp footage. — Julian Saporiti of No-No Boy
Julian Saporiti’s band No-No Boy[’s] … output is a largely self-generated suite of ballads having to do with being Asian American (Saporiti is Vietnamese American) and with the historical oppressions faced by Asian Americans… . Saporiti’s compositions feature startlingly deep engagements with historical narratives and the subjectivities that are occasioned by these. The songs are about people, I mean, in sometimes devastating circumstances, often finding moments of beauty, yearning, regret, even joy, amid the loss and grief…. In addition: a No-No Boy concert is often noteworthy for the great amount of historical film footage going on behind the musicians, too. —Rick Moody
Read more in Rick Moody’s latest HOME KEY column below
… it was just the crush of ghosts. That’s what I feel. And especially with the multimedia aspect, all the projections, all those dead people behind me, even though I’ve sort of shifted more to beautiful home movies than a lot of the old war footage I used to put on the screen. And internment camp footage. — Julian Saporiti of No-No Boy
Julian Saporiti’s band No-No Boy[’s] … output is a largely self-generated suite of ballads having to do with being Asian American (Saporiti is Vietnamese American) and with the historical oppressions faced by Asian Americans… . Saporiti’s compositions feature startlingly deep engagements with historical narratives and the subjectivities that are occasioned by these. The songs are about people, I mean, in sometimes devastating circumstances, often finding moments of beauty, yearning, regret, even joy, amid the loss and grief…. In addition: a No-No Boy concert is often noteworthy for the great amount of historical film footage going on behind the musicians, too. —Rick Moody
Read more in Rick Moody’s latest HOME KEY column below
… it was just the crush of ghosts. That’s what I feel. And especially with the multimedia aspect, all the projections, all those dead people behind me, even though I’ve sort of shifted more to beautiful home movies than a lot of the old war footage I used to put on the screen. And internment camp footage. — Julian Saporiti of No-No Boy
Julian Saporiti’s band No-No Boy[’s] … output is a largely self-generated suite of ballads having to do with being Asian American (Saporiti is Vietnamese American) and with the historical oppressions faced by Asian Americans… . Saporiti’s compositions feature startlingly deep engagements with historical narratives and the subjectivities that are occasioned by these. The songs are about people, I mean, in sometimes devastating circumstances, often finding moments of beauty, yearning, regret, even joy, amid the loss and grief…. In addition: a No-No Boy concert is often noteworthy for the great amount of historical film footage going on behind the musicians, too. —Rick Moody
Read more in Rick Moody’s latest HOME KEY column below
