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ROUGH YEARS

by jiaqing wilson-yang

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1.
Emptynesses 05:32
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once i finally stopped being so angry once i finally ran through every alley my lungs empty and tattered, i held my hands up to the moon, and my eyes welled threw me aside after you’d drained me tossed on the concrete cracked open and empty you cried and you cried and tried to regain me split me apart to restrain me i tried to run i tried to run i tried you stopped me i tried to run i tried to run i tried you wouldn’t let me so angry so angry so angry shattered pieces of years, broken glass around me do you see how broken how broken how empty? you frantically gathered my pieces but could not contain me we’ll never rebuild we’ll never rebuild we’ll never rebuild no. once i finally stopped being so angry once i finally ran through every alley my lungs empty and tattered, i held my hands up to the moon, and my eyes welled i will rebuild i will rebuild i will rebuild alone.
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Triangles of Light 03:47
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3.
I Saw You 03:46
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when first I saw you in me i wondered would you be proud or horrified?
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Cliffs 03:01
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No Stranger 04:23
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I’m no stranger to the heavier thoughts I’m no stranger to what it is I got But you caught me off guard I always thought it’d be harder To do that but You caught me off guard I always thought it’d be harder To lay me out You’re no stranger to me You caught me off guard I always thought it’d be harder To lay me out Caught me off guard I’m finally somebody’s daughter and you laid me out

about

In the lead up to Richard Laviolette’s death and the months that followed, I wrote and rewrote several songs about him. These are not those songs, BUT as I was writing the songs that these are not, I found a heap of recordings I’d made between 2013 and 2023. For years I’d been telling myself that I hadn’t written music since the last recording I made with Richard, Eight Steps in the Recent Moves of Kit Wilson-Yang, back in 2013. It always felt like a loss, I’d been writing and playing music since I was a preteen. The more I listened through the recordings, which were fragmented or unusable, the more I realized I never stopped writing music, I just didn’t have the creative space or energy to play it. But it was always there. These songs were all written or started during some of the hardest years I’ve had. Taking the time to flesh them out has been a way to move forward from that time. A way to honour that, with the help of friends and family, I got through it. Since Richard passed in 2023, I’ve returned to playing and writing music again. It's a way for me to be close to him. He was with me on every take, arrangement and mix on this recording.

The songs Emptynesses, Triangles of Light, and I Saw You, are built out of recordings I’d made on my phone, riffs and words I was feeling. No Stranger is a recording I have no memory of making during a visit to my parents house sometime in 2018. Rarely do songs show up complete, but this one did. Mostly. Cliffs I recorded in 2017 building off a riff I recorded with Richard in 2013.

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released November 25, 2024

ROUGH YEARS by jiaqing wilson-yang
all songs written by jiaqing wilson-yang
jiaqing played guitar, vox, viola, keyboards and sounds.
Clara played vox
Recorded and mixed at home by jiaqing with support from Richard Laviolette in 2024.
Cliffs was recorded at a different home in 2017.
The piano and vocals of No Stranger were recorded at the Yangs sometime in 2018.

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jiaqing wilson-yang Toronto, Ontario

jiaqing wilson-yang fka kit wilson-yang fka chris yang is a writer, musician, and transsexual at large, living in toronto. she played
drums in sissyfist (RIP) and plays bass and vox in LOST UNIT.

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