{"id":5312,"date":"2025-09-19T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/patrick-shiroishi-knows-how-memory-works\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:30:00","slug":"patrick-shiroishi-knows-how-memory-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/patrick-shiroishi-knows-how-memory-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Shiroishi Knows How Memory Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a member of the hardcore outfit the Armed and the atmospheric jazz collective Fuubutsushi, Patrick Shiroishi has proven that he can handle both aggressive thrash and evocative ambience with finesse. For his latest solo project, he balances both, and creates something fraught and angry, yet strangely serene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Forgetting Is Violent <\/em>begins with a voice speaking in Japanese. Other voices join the speaker, forming an overlapping chorus. \u201cTo protect our family names,\u201d at first reflective, grows more urgent and insistent, one narrative turning into a litany of laments. Shiroishi enters with a rapid-fire series of chromatic high notes, all texture and tension, highlighting the rising tide of distress. Shiroishi\u2019s sax increases with the number of voices, his frantic lines replicating, doubling and piling on top of each other via loops and delay, a method that avoids the cookie-cutter neatness of overdubs. The voices continue, but in the background, as if over a distant loudspeaker. A menacing, monolithic rumble enters, courtesy of guitar from Aaron Turner, of heavy titans Sumac and Isis. The guitar expands, obliterating the voices, but the song, instead of growing more frantic, takes shape, with a gentle but stubborn sustained tone working its way out of the chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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