From the recording PREVIEW - Unbreakable Hope and Resilience
Takayuki Yoshinaga left Tokyo to move to Namie, Fukushima — a town evacuated in its entirety — to join a community rebuilding project. After a narration and bass solo state his quiet resolve, the music ventures into the places that were once off-limits, expressed as a blues that is equal parts prayer and soul cry, featuring Carl Maraghi’s baritone saxophone.