S.O.S (Shape of the Shape)-(Music composition for Gender Wayang & Semarandana)

Music by Jen Shyu (USA/Timor Leste)
Text by Dorothea Rosa Herliany (Indonesia)

Originally released Fall 2015 on Pi Recordings; but now is on Autumn Geese Records: https://jenshyu.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-and-cries-of-the-world

Jen Shyu: composition, vocals, Taiwanese moon lute
Ambrose Akinmusire: trumpet
Mat Maneri: viola
Thomas Morgan: bass
Dan Weiss: drums

Lyrics (English translation)
"...why don't you go home, woman,
endlessly walking carrying longing, friend,
shedding the smell of tears
sorrowful grief at the edge of the garden
perhaps she is searching for the heaven
God faithfully places
(in the innermost recesses
of the believer's heart)..."

--from Dorothea Rosa Herliany's poem "Para Pembakar Ombak" ("Burning the Waves") - Indonesian text and English translation by Herliany

--Mixed by Andy Taub and mastered by Scott Hull 
Ambrose Akinmusire appearing Courtesy of Blue Note Records

Photo by Jeff Evans
Profile photo by Miranda Lichtenstein

"Sounds & Cries of the World" 1st Teaser (Para Pembakar Ombak | Burning the Waves)

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