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Kishi Bashi

Kishi Bashi is the stage name of the singer, songwriter and violinist Kaoru Ishibashi, now Dill-Ishibashi, born in Seattle in 1975 and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Before going solo in 2011 he co-founded the New York band Jupiter One and played violin with Regina Spektor and of Montreal. His albums on Joyful Noise run from 151a (2012) through Lighght, Sonderlust, Omoiyari and Kantos (2024); Omoiyari and its song-film deal with the incarceration of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

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Kishi Bashi singing with his eyes closed into a microphone while playing violin, in a grey waistcoat and patterned tie
Photo: Michael Miller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Kishi Bashi “Bright Whites”

A song recorded in his parents' house in Norfolk opened a Kickstarter-funded debut, then opened Windows 8. How Kishi Bashi's 2012 went from zero to a national ad.

Elmo Phelge · 23 Oct 2026
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Musician: strings on "Hegira Émigré"
Review Folk rock, Psychedelic pop
of Montreal Lousy with Sylvianbriar

Kevin Barnes cut of Montreal's 12th album to tape with a new band in three weeks. The method works; too many songs stop where their models stop.

Elmo Phelge · 23 Oct 2026