Tag: “There is no moment in my life in which this is not happening” (Patrick Shiroishi song)

Patrick Shiroishi’s forthcoming new album Forgetting is Violent (out September 19, 2025 on vinyl, for download and streaming via American Dreams) promises more of his exploratory compositional technique. The track “There is no moment in my life in which this is not happening” features Elizabeth Colour Wheel’s elemental vocalist otay::onii contributing a slow wailing chant alongside Shiroishi’s own spoken phrases to the layered, ritualistic drones paired with rhythms embodied in the iterative flow of organic textures. The sound of Shiroishi’s signature saxophone is transformed into characteristically nearly unrecognizable forms. One imagines this music being performed in a remote, Zen meditation retreat in a spot that continues to be a place of deep, internal, mystical experiences once your mind is freed of the distraction of the press and demands of commodified modern existence in the global capitalist dystopia. Once freed of that energy the recognition of one’s ongoing connection to eternal forces and patterns becomes obvious and this song seems to speak to the process of reconnecting with that which is ongoing underneath the illusion of atomized, monetized, contingent social reality. The album itself is a meditation on the legacy of racism and colonialism and the title resonates with the lingering and still very present impacts of such historical realities that permeate daily existence whether society collectively chooses to acknowledge them or not. Listen to “There is no moment in my life in which this is not happening” on Spotify and follow Patrick Shiroishi on Instagram.