Nobuko Miyamoto: 120,000 Stories

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - SFW40590

Series: Asian Pacific America Series
Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2021
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Struggle & Protest
[Disk One: 2020]
01 We Are the Children (4:16)
02 Not Yo' Butterfly (4:19)
03 Gaman (6:27)
04 Tampopo (Dandelion) (6:08)
05 Somos Asiáticos (5:26)
06 Ichigo Ichie (4:37)
07 What Is the Color of Love? (7:26)
08 120,000 Stories (5:02)
09 Meditation on a Lotus (8:31)
10 Black Lives Matter (5:59)
11 What Time Is It on the Clock of the World? (3:49)
12 To All Relations / Tala‘a 'l-badru 'alaynā (3:03)
[Disk Two: 1973-2013]
01 Yellow Pearl (3:02)
02 Free the Land (3:36)
03 West to East (5:04)
04 Beckoning (3:31)
05 American Made (5:10)
06 English Lesson (6:20)
07 Pilipino Tango (7:23)
08 To All Relations (Mitakuye Oyasin) (6:24)
09 Fortunata (6:30)
10 Yuiyo Bon Odori (3:48)
11 Mottainai (3:37)
12 Cycles of Change) (4:27)
13 Bam Butsu, No Tsunagari (10,000 Things, All Connected) (6:26)
[Credits]
Nobuko Miyamoto (piano/vocals) Derek Nakamoto (piano/organ/synthesizer/vocals) Fender Rhodes (bass) Juan Pérez (bass) Tylana Enomoto (violin) Kenny Endo (taiko/percussion) Quetzal Flores (guitar) Juan Pérez (bass) Joey De Leon (congas/bongo/cow bell) Abe Lagrimas Jr.(drums) Gerald Albright (saxophone) Tetsuya Nakamura (harmonica) Asiyah Ayubbi (darbuka/vocals) Chris Iijima (guitar/vocals) William "Charlie" Chin (guitar) Attallah Ayyubi (conga) Benny Yee (piano) Russel Baba (saxophone) Gary Fitzgerald (bass) E.W. Wainright (drums) Derek Nakamoto (piano/keyboard/synthesizer) John Barnes (bass) Fender Rhodes (bass) Luis Conte (percussion) Dan Marfisi (percussion) Michael Paulo (saxophone) Young Ae Park (vocals) Danny Yamamoto (djembe/drums) Francis Awe (drums) Kell Elifson (guitar) June Kuramoto (koto) Jesse Acuna (berimbau) Sharon Koga (shamisen) George Abe (flute) Johnny Mori (taiko) César Castro (guitar/vocals) Sean Miura (shamisen) Danny Yamamoto (taiko) George Abe (yokobue) Juan Pérez (bass)
Liner Notes: Nobuko Miyamoto and Barbara Dane
[Notes]
Nobuko Miyamoto is an icon of Asian American music and activism. Since the early 1970s, she has been exploring ways to reclaim and respirit our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and forge solidarity. 120,000 Stories collects powerful new songs, reinterpretations of old ones, and recordings from across her career, including from the seminal 1973 album A Grain of Sand and the band Warriors of the Rainbow. These songs speak to past and present struggles—for self-determination, Black Lives, the environment. They chronicle difficult histories, they celebrate resilient traditions, and most of all, they endeavor to connect communities.