1975

No-No Boy is the musical project of Vietnamese American singer and scholar Julian Saporiti. On his Smithsonian Folkways debut 1975, named after the year Saigon fell, Saporiti investigates his own family heritage as well as life in WWII Japanese internment camps, immigrant detention centers and refugee camps in 2020, and other stories of immigration that illustrate the complexities of becoming American. His songs are the epitome of folk storytelling in the modern era, as he interweaves histories with field recordings from the sites of collective trauma and fragments of Asian American musical tradition, from jazz to rock, to choral music). With his plaintive, direct voice, he takes listeners on a deeply human journey through the Asian American experience in the US.

Track Listing

101	St. Denis or Bangkok, from a Hotel Balcony	No-No Boy featuring Jacqueline Saporiti	02:04
102	Imperial Twist	No-No Boy featuring Robert Vifian	03:31
103	The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming	No-No Boy	03:50
104	Gimme Chills	No-No Boy	03:26
105	Close Your Eyes and Dream of Flowers	No-No Boy featuring Juan Betancourt Garcia	03:26
106	Honouliuli	No-No Boy featuring Emilia Halvorsen	04:32
107	Pilgrims	No-No Boy featuring Emilia Halvorsen	04:19
108	Where the Sand Creek Meets the Arkansas River	No-No Boy featuring Kristin Weber	04:42
109	Tell Hanoi I Love Her	No-No Boy	02:53
110	Khmerica	No-No Boy	03:49
111	Miss Burma	No-No Boy featuring Takénobu	02:44
112	Tony Ramone	No-No Boy	03:19