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Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs
by Dao Strom

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of the four Yellow Songs books and the Tender Revolutions album reckon with the intimate consequences of the colonial project, reconfiguring them into complex and lucid, literal and figurative songs of selfhood. Embodied, critical, wholehearted, collective, personal, genre-defying—Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs renders the brute force of history with tender precision.

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“This work is fierce, vulnerable, candid, and surprising. Read, regard, listen, and marvel!” ~ Gabrielle Civil, author of the déjà vu and In & Out of Place

“The four books of Dao Strom’s Yellow Songs and the album Tender Revolutions achieve a remarkable feat: each poem, essay, collage, and song is artfully made and performed, and at the same time they add up to far more.” ~ Brian Harnetty, author of Noisy Memory

“Yellow Songs is a breathtakingly layered, hybrid offering by Dao Strom—four neatly contained volumes and an LP that defy their containers, echoing and folding into one another across genres. It’s a rich, overflowing experience—rippling, atmospheric, and alive with sonic and textual interplay.” ~ Stephanie Adams-Santos, author of Dream of Xibalba

Each of the four Yellow Songs books is available individually or as a set, along with the Tender Revolutions album.

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This project is a joint release of The 3rd Thing Press, Antiquated Future Records, and Beacon Sound. 

Also available through The 3rd Thing

Bookstores, museums, libraries & schools can order through our distributor, Asterism Books.

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