Music Friyay: Daniel Johnston, Kishi Bashi, Patrick Burnell

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

By Joanna C. Valente

Here’s some music, new and old, you should listen to and check out:

Daniel Johnston - 1990

Let’s go back to 1990 to listen to Johnston’s iconic album of the same name, which is a tender, lonely, and vulnerable world. My favorite: “Some Things Last a Long Time.”

Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari

Bashi’s 2019 album is an ethereal, rustic, and often joyful-sounding feat. The album, which is set to release later this month via Joyful Noise, deals with human rights in America (ranging from topics like the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII to the Muslim ban today). Here are a few songs from the album you can stream:

Patrick Burnell - Day of Reckoning

Burnell’s flamenco-driven album is a dreamscape where we are traveling to and from and toward many different places, an emotional odyssey of sorts. In this 10-song journey, released last month by Ezz-thetic Records, we find ourselves and lose ourselves, until something else is born. My favorite: “Lament.”

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Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body) (forthcoming, Madhouse Press, 2019), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente