Kishi Bashi, Violin Tsunami (live acoustic), August Hall, San Francisco, June 12, 2019 (HD)

Kishi Bashi wades into the crowd to play an acoustic encore set live in concert before a sold-out crowd at August Hall in San Francisco on June 12, 2019. This song, "Violin Tsunami" is a new track on Kishi Bashi's latest album, Omoiyari, released two weeks earlier on Joyful Noise Recordings. Joining him in the crowd were Nick Ogawa (cello), Kathryn Koch (violin), Pip the Pansy (flute), Mike Savino (bass), Dave Kirslis (guitar), and Ryan Oslance (drums).

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Omoiyari live tour dates (2019):

June 8 - Athens, CA @ Georgia Theatre
June 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge
June 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge
June 12 - San Francisco, CA @ August Hall Concert Hall
June 14 - Portland, OR @ The Old Church
June 16 - Seattle, WA @ Washington Hall
June 18 - Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
June 19 - Brooklyn NY @ Murmrr
June 20 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Sept. 26 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
Sept. 27 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic NOLA
Sept. 28 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk Austin
Sept. 29 - Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater
Sept. 30 - Dallas, TX @ Trees
Oct. 2 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Oct. 3 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
Oct. 5 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ Imperial Vancouver
Oct. 6 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
Oct. 7 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
Oct. 8 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Oct. 10 - Eugene, OR @ Wow Hall
Oct. 11 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
Oct. 12 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brew
Oct. 13 - San Diego, CA @ Music Box
Oct. 14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
Oct. 24 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
Oct. 25 - Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
Oct. 26 - St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
Oct. 27 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Oct. 28 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Oct. 29 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
Oct. 30 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater

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Violin Tsunami lyrics:

When our faith was on the edge of the wind
The summer days on end
Memories of the setting sunlight
Would tell a different way to be
To be, to be

Haruno hareno minato horobi (x3)
Haruno hareno minato horobi ru

When in song we are blessed to be
Mending the rift of our apathy
I have the answer
You will remain
Days on end after the end of the cancer
One day you will follow with the sound of laughter
One day we'll fall in love

Written by Kaoru Ishibashi

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Kishi Bashi official bio:

Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi. Born in Seattle, Washington, Ishibashi grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where both of his parents were professors at Old Dominion University. As a 1994 graduate of Matthew Fontaine Maury High School, he went on to study film scoring at Berklee College of Music before becoming a renowned violinist. Ishibashi has recorded and toured internationally as a violinist with diverse artists such as Regina Spektor, Sondre Lerche, and most recently, the Athens, Georgia-based indie rock band, of Montreal. He remains based in Athens.

Kishi Bashi is also the singer and founding member of the New York electronic rock outfit, Jupiter One. In 2011, he started to record and perform as a solo artist, opening for Sondre Lerche, Alexi Murdoch, and of Montreal. He supported of Montreal on their spring 2012 tour.

Shortly after Ishibashi debuted his full-length solo album "151a" on Indianapolis label Joyful Noise Recordings, NPR All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen listed Kishi Bashi as his favorite new artist of 2012 noting that he created "a radiant, uplifting soundscape" with songs such as "Bright Whites."

Kishi Bashi has since been invited to play in major festivals such as SXSW and Austin City Limits and gone on an extensive US tour with supporting acts such as The Last Bison (from his native Hampton Roads, Virginia). In early 2013, Kishi Bashi held a North American tour across the United States and Canada, continuing in EU and UK in spring 2013.

In 2014 Kishi Bashi released his own line of coffee through Jittery Joe's called Royal Daark Blend. Each purchase comes with an exclusive song download. 2016 saw Kishi Bashi release his new album "Sonderlust" live on NPR's All Songs Considered.

His latest album, Omoiyari (a Japanese word for the idea of creating compassion toward other people by thinking about them), was released in 2019. He is currently co-directing a feature length documentary of the same name about minority identity and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in WWII.

In 2020 Kishi Bashi scored the entire soundtrack for the touching Apple TV+ kids show “Stillwater” with composer Toby Chu, and released it as an album featuring 18 tracks of uplifting orchestral tunes.

His upcoming Emigrant EP, a very special companion piece to 'Omoiyari' will be out digitally on April 2nd and physically on May 21st. Arranged and recorded over the last year, 'Emigrant EP' serves as a time capsule of the 2020 condition and a continuation of the concepts explored in 'Omoiyari'.