Deconstrucción de la composición_Asahito Nanjo

"how does High Rise come up with new tracks? Do you write stuff down, do you just jam at rehearsals until you come up with something, is there a concept for each track?
We don't have specific tunes. No High Rise track has ever been written or composed.

But there are certain things that you've played again and again. If those aren't tunes, what are they - concepts?
"Concept" is as close as you can get in words, I suppose. Everybody adds something to it. We don't devote any time to writing new stuff. We start off from deconstruction, though there are things that in the end become like normal songs. But the process that we take in getting there is completely different to everyone else. Our process is totally different from the punk conception of specific chords and riffs. We sort of start off from the position that we don't want to do this but there's no way around it. It's hard to explain in words. Basically we don't even put in one minute coming up with new songs. Not that we're lazy or sloppy - we have a different conception of what a song is. But we've got to express ourselves in that format. We pay no attention at all to writing songs. It's very hard to explain - if we wanted to write songs then we could write something amazing. What we do isn't composition; it's the wreckage of composition, if you like.

Are there things which are close to songs, and things which are further away?
That's up to the listener to decide. It's not an accidental process though - that would be Musica Transonic. Basically from the start, High Rise has no intention of writing a song. It's a paradox in a way. We don't want to write tunes but we want to exist as a band. And bands have certain things that they do - that's the burden we have to bear. It can't be helped if someone listens to High Rise and hears it as ultra-composed three-chord punk rock. What the band is trying to do is something different to that. High Rise don't play compositions, but we have to bear that burden of expectation because we are a band.

What about the tracks that have lyrics?
The lyrics are the same as the concept for the first album that we talked about earlier - they're just various bits of English junky slang strung together. They just say that if you want to take drugs, you're going to have to be prepared to die."
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