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Shindashi Man, the long-awaited new album
"It Takes 5 Hours to Align" has been released.
It doesn't align.
No matter how many times I measure, somehow it just doesn't match.
If I move it to the right, it goes too far; if I move it back to the left, it misaligns again.
Before I know it, it's evening, my back hurts, and only the dial gauge needle is quietly laughing.
This work is an album with the theme of 'shindashi' (alignment) in machine installation, depicting the persistence, impatience, resignation, and the mysterious obsession that resides in the final 0.01mm of people working on-site.
Work that doesn't go well.
Relationships that don't mesh.
Schedules that gradually drift because you can't go home.
Even so, we measure again. To bring things within the specified value.
In this album, Shindashi Man confronts not only the machine's core but also the slowly shifting core of the human heart in daily life.
It takes five hours to align.
But because of those five hours, something quietly starts to turn today as well.
I can't see the dial clearly due to presbyopia. Yet I must fight. This is an instrumental album for people in such a world.
Shindashi Man is a mysterious mechanical installation technician artist born from the gaps in couplings. His hobby is looking at dial gauges, and his special skill is prolonging work on site by saying, 'Just 0.1 more to the right.' Yet, to surprisingly little expectation, his music is straightforward and oddly piercing to misaligned hearts. For him, music is the core alignment of life. Today, somewhere in a pump room, he is a supervising technician who is correcting someone's heart's eccentricity.