After Xu’s passing, some online obituaries claimed that as a young child he had been orphaned, neglected and insulted until a poor old women adopted and raised him, and that this foster-grandmother had died a
Visqueen,Message to Garcia(2009). The songs on Visqueen’s third album took root during the many years that bandleader Rachel Flotard cared for her dying father, and came to bittersweet fruitition shortly after he left this mortal coil. Rarely do protracted obituaries sound this elegantly catch...