[TCA 37] Under / Dada, by Signal Arrow

[TCA 37] Under / Dada

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	1.	Under 13:27
	2.	Dada 13:27

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"“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out” - William S Burroughs

Signal Arrow: a portmanteau of Signal_DADA and Underarrow. Signal_DADA, headed by Shota Hirama, has long been a champion of wild, sonic experimentation. Tracks from Hirama can last up to 17 minutes and comprise chaotic patchworks of glitches and tidbit samples. Underarrow, headed by Yu Miyashita, has a knack for evoking feelings of loss and isolation through whirling hurricanes of noise. Appropriate then, that both Hirama and Miyashita should work together. Since they are, in some sense, two sides of the same coin.

Their latest release, Under / Dada, features a live recording of a dual jam session. As one would expect from these two, the album is an unceasing onslaught. From the first to the last second, Signal Arrow engineer and digitalise sound out of any discernible shape. Nothing is left untouched. Frequencies spike out with mechanical precision and swirl around the stereo-field at aerodynamic speeds. But beneath the coats of post-production, there also lays a tender core. Soft 8-bit synthesizers bleed through the chaos, giving colour and humanity to an otherwise mechanical edifice. At the album’s climax, a wash of strings ebb and flow like an ineffable ghost in a machine.

Although Signal Arrow makes no overt political statements, they provide a procedure for making them. By taking pieces of immediate reality and pasting them together, this music ruptures one’s grasp of the world. Samples, found-sounds and assemblage paint for us a picture of hyperactive fragmentation and information overload. In this sense, the album may be an analysis of current cultural trends. It tells us something of how the world is or may be soon. Richard Huelsenbeck once described Dada as representative of “all the sensational screams and fevers of its reckless everyday psyche.” Hannah Höch’s Dada collages indeed fit this description, depicting Berlin at its most bustling and lively. Similarly, Signal Arrow recapitulates the Internet-age as a time of absurd complexity. In this sense, these algorithmic cut-ups of sound give us a way of understanding our present situation. Strengthening the link between art and the world in all its brutal reality.

How then, might we categorise this music? Both Hirama and Miyashita have rejected the term Japanoise to describe their music. For one thing, Hirama and Miyashita have been ‘unstuck’ from one geographical location in particular. Hirama was born in New York and lived in the US for 12 years, but has Japanese ancestry and has lived in Tokyo for almost 20. Miyashita, too, has lived in both Japan and the UK. Speaking in an interview with Stray Landings, Hirama spoke of this cultural accumulation. “We are mutants”, he wrote, “but we are also noise musicians”. Even if Signal Arrow takes some cue from their Japanoise predecessors, to regard it as just a reaction an old hat genre would be to ghettoise something much more exciting."

- Georgie McVicar, Stray Landings, May 2016

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released November 20, 2020

Live. Signal Arrow (shotahirama + Yu Miyashita)
Recording. ARK TYP (in 2015)
Editing & Mastering. Yu Miyashita

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"I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws." - Antonin Artaud

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