late 2022, an invitation from philip glass to remix a track of his for his 85th birthday.

the piece is based around music for the 1985 Paul Schrader film Mishima, a biography of the author-actor-director Yukio Mishima. Mishima was / is a controversial figure in Japanese culture and his legacy is pretty muddied with his strange opinions and actions. I found this string quartet and fell in love. it's short, powerful and simple and complex at the same time.

once I found the piece, I was thinking about Mishima a lot, pretty lost in the weeds with it tbh. around this time Pharaoh Sanders passed away and I completely immersed myself in his legacy for a few weeks, especially Tauhid. that very specific kind of spiritual jazz texture, thick walls of mediative percussion and ambience started making it's way into the sketches and disparate ideas I was working on and it grew organically from there.

it's called shiosai, which is the title of a book by Mishima and is a Japanese word that roughly translates to both the sound of waves breaking or something that's boisterous, disturbs or excites xox