Deep AND fun, this conversation with saxophonist and prolific collaborator Patrick Shiroishi is everything a This Is Your Afterlife episode is meant to be. For those counting, this makes 2 of 4 Fuubutsushi members I've had on the show.

Content warning: Japanese internment camps, Taco Bell, ancestors, therapy, questionable shave, the Get Up Kids.

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Check out Patrick's website for tour dates, including a support tour for Emma Ruth Rundle in March and April.

You can find his many albums on his Bandcamp, including Oort Smog's Every Motherfucker Is Your Brother and his recent ambient/electronic record on Touch Music, Evergreen, which includes field recordings from the cemetery where many of his ancestors are buried.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"