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1975

No-No Boy

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Format: CD

Cat No: SFW40592

Release Date:  02 April 2021

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093074059227

Genres:  Indie  Indie  

Release Date:  02 April 2021

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093074059210

Genres:  Indie  Indie  

  • Description

    No-No Boy is the musical project of Vietnamese American singer and scholar Julian Saporiti. On his Smithsonian Folkways debut 1975, named after the year Saigon fell, Saporiti investigates his own family heritage as well as life in WWII Japanese internment camps, immigrant detention centers and refugee camps in 2020, and other stories of immigration that illustrate the complexities of becoming American. His songs are the epitome of folk storytelling in the modern era, as he interweaves histories with field recordings from the sites of collective trauma and fragments of Asian American musical tradition, from jazz to rock, to choral music. With his plaintive, direct voice, he takes listeners on a deeply human journey through the Asian American experience in the US.

    Description

    No-No Boy is the musical project of Vietnamese American singer and scholar Julian Saporiti. On his Smithsonian Folkways debut 1975, named after the year Saigon fell, Saporiti investigates his own family heritage as well as life in WWII Japanese internment camps, immigrant detention centers and refugee camps in 2020, and other stories of immigration that illustrate the complexities of becoming American. His songs are the epitome of folk storytelling in the modern era, as he interweaves histories with field recordings from the sites of collective trauma and fragments of Asian American musical tradition, from jazz to rock, to choral music. With his plaintive, direct voice, he takes listeners on a deeply human journey through the Asian American experience in the US.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. St. Denis or Bangkok, from a Hotel Balcony
      • 2. Imperial Twist
      • 3. The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming
      • 4. Gimme Chills
      • 5. Close Your Eyes and Dream of Flowers
      • 6. Honouliuli
      • 7. Pilgrims
      • 8. Where the Sand Creek Meets the Arkansas River
      • 9. Tell Hanoi I Love Her
      • 10. Khmerica
      • 11. Miss Burma
      • 12. Tony Ramone

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. St. Denis or Bangkok, from a Hotel Balcony
      • 2. Imperial Twist
      • 3. The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming
      • 4. Gimme Chills
      • 5. Close Your Eyes and Dream of Flowers
      • 6. Honouliuli

      Side 2

      • 1. Pilgrims
      • 2. Where the Sand Creek Meets the Arkansas River
      • 3. Tell Hanoi I Love Her
      • 4. Khmerica
      • 5. Miss Burma
      • 6. Tony Ramone