Kishi Bashi OST Omoiyari Blue & Sky Blu Vinyl Edition

"Omoiyari" means to have empathy and consideration for others, and act on it.This fall, the American indie-folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriterKishi Bashi is set to release the companion album to his forthcoming documentarysong film, titled Music from the Song Film: Omoiyari. Consisting of twoLPs_"The Songs" and "The Score"_the release showcases what is essentially thesoundtrack to Omoiyari, the feature-length motion picture co-directed by KishiBashi, aka Kaoru Ishibashi or "K," which is being released via MTV DocumentaryFilms in November. Focusing on K's own six-year journey of discoverysurrounding his research of the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans thatfollowed the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the film is part social justicedocumentary and part song-film experiment. The album includes K's liveimprovisations, which are featured in the documentary, many recorded on the siteswhere the concentration camps stood. Written during and about the artist'stransformational dive into his personal identity and serving as a broad survey of theJapanese American experience as well as the incarceration_Music from the SongFilm: Omoiyari serves as an evocative musical accompaniment to the lessons ofempathy and compassion portrayed in the film and highlights the process andpower of one of modern indie's most talented musicians.