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ACL 2025 ~ Top Ten Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

The last of our genre lists brings the guitars, the energy, the aggression, but also the sweetness, as some of these albums include moments of surprising tenderness. Their dynamic contrast highlights their emotional impact. Catharsis is a word often used to describe post-rock, and one will encounter that here; but our list also encompasses Welsh Primitive, jazz and the blues. As in other lists…

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Patrick Shiroishi: Prayer for a trembling body ( Forgetting Is Violent).

“Prayer for a trembling body” occupies a central place within Forgetting Is Violent, perhaps the most intimate and vulnerable moment in the entire album. Patrick Shiroishi builds here a minimal sound space, sustained almost entirely by his whispering voice and by a background that acts as an emotional drone. Critics have described this piece as the calmest in the collection, a suspended moment in which every breath seems to carry its own weight. It is music that doesn’t rely on instrumental density but on what is essential: a voice that searches, doubts, prays, and expands into silence.

The presence of Japanese words and fragments—“heaven,” “of my daughter,” “the dream,” “it hasn’t ended yet”—introduces an emotional depth that transcends language itself. They do not form a linear narrative but a series of flashes of consciousness: pleas, questions, inner commands, memories. And now, with the editorial information and specialized criticism, we know that this piece belongs to the album’s second suite, composed in memory of a family member who died of an overdose. That context gives each whisper a specific weight: the prayer of someone imagining a loved one watching from heaven, leaving children behind, and whose departure still resounds like an unresolved trembling.

Within that frame, “Prayer for a trembling body” becomes a sonic vigil. It is not merely a contemplative moment within the album, but an act of mourning transformed into sound. The trembling of the body is not only physical, but emotional and spiritual: the trembling of someone who remembers, someone who asks, someone who insists—“it hasn’t ended yet.” Shiroishi does not seek to close a wound, but to keep it present in a way that honors its origin. The piece functions like a small light kept burning in the middle of silence: fragile, vulnerable, yet profoundly necessary.”

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Patrick Shiroishi ~ Forgetting Is Violent

Next year sees the 180th anniversary of the saxophone, an instrument that has flourished beyond anything its inventor could have imagined. A brass instrument that’s classified as woodwind, it arrived too late to really be part of a classical orchestra – composers were slow to orchestrate for it, or include it as a lead instrument for concertos. It took until the 1920s for Coleman Hawkins to…

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Escuchar a: Trying to get to heaven before they close the door de Patrick Shiroishi

La pieza “Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door” pertenece al disco “Forgetting is Violent”, publicado el pasado 19 de septiembre de 2025 por el compositor y saxofonista japonés-estadounidense Patrick Shiroishi. Este álbum representa el trabajo más personal y directo del artista, en el que reflexiona sobre el racismo y la violencia histórica sufrida por las comunidades asiático-americanas, pero también sobre las injusticias universales. A diferencia de sus trabajos anteriores, aquí se rodea de colaboradores de la escena experimental y del metal, como Mat Ball, combinando sonoridades acústicas, electrónicas y texturas ruidosas para crear una experiencia intensa y emocional. Dentro del álbum, esta pieza ocupa un lugar especial: cierra la segunda suite, dedicada a un familiar de Shiroishi que falleció por sobredosis. El compositor explica que quiso expresar lo que esa persona pudo haber sentido “al dejar este mundo y mirar desde el cielo”. En esta pieza, Shiroishi combina su voz, el saxofón y distintos pedales de efectos para crear un paisaje sonoro profundamente espiritual, donde las capas de sonido y las armonías se entrelazan como si formaran un coro lejano que canta desde otra dimensión. Cada eco, cada nota suspendida, parece flotar en un espacio entre la calma y la melancolía. Sobre esa atmósfera casi sagrada, la guitarra distorsionada de Mat Ball irrumpe con un timbre áspero y denso, generando un contraste poderoso entre lo celestial y lo terrenal, entre la serenidad de las voces y la crudeza del dolor humano. En conjunto, esta pieza se convierte en un ritual sonoro de despedida y de esperanza, una especie de viaje interior hacia la reconciliación con la pérdida. El título, tomado de un verso de Bob Dylan, expresa el anhelo de alcanzar la paz antes de que se cierre la última puerta, esa frontera simbólica entre la vida y lo desconocido.

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