【搬运】Eiko Ishibashi: Finding a new direction after the Drive My Car soundtrack
从爱尔兰时报（the Irish time）对石桥英子的采访中节选部分与这张专辑相关的内容，看完就明白为什么这张专辑有那么多中国元素了。
Drive My Car is a wonderful introduction to the Ishibashi expanded universe, which draws on jazz, minimalism, contemporary music and 1990s post-rock (in concert, she plays keyboard and is typically accompanied by guitarist and drummer). What she brings is an intensely personal perspective: here is avant-garde music that comes from a place of lived experience and which often taps her own family history.
A case in point is her haunting 2018 album, The Dream My Bones Dream, about her father, who was born in the historical Chinese region of Manchuria during’s Japan’s brutal occupation leading up to the second World War.
As is often the case with imperial powers with a bloody legacy of colonisation, in Japan a veil is often drawn over the sins of the past. However, for Ishibashi the connection to Manchuria ran too deep to ignore. Her grandfather had overseen the creation of the Japanese railway there. And her father spent his early childhood in this conquered territory.
It was a part of his life he was always reluctant to discuss. After he died, Ishibashi came to see her family’s history in China as unfinished business. But when the album was released, she discovered that many in Japan shared her father’s outlook. Manchuria, what Japan did there, was a closed book never to be opened.
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