Lament For Letho

Jen Shyu - Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (2021) {Pi Recordings PI88}
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Jazz / Classical / Avant-Garde Music / Ethnic Fusion

Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses, the new work by sui generis vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu, is a collection of songs devoted to the marginalized voices of women around the world, and a profound elegy to personal loss. The album is dedicated to her father, who passed away in 2019. It was Shyu's discovery of her old diaries while cleaning out his closet that transformed Zero Grasses into a coming-of-age story about her ambitions and personal reflections on the racism and sexism that she has faced throughout her life.

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