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THE SIGN OF HUMAN 记号士: Inspiration from Film and Everyday Life

Artist: THE SIGN OF HUMAN 记号士

Album: "Rebuild" 《重建》

Release Date: May 24, 2019

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In art and love, THE SIGN OF HUMAN floats between reality and fantasy, always writing, always alone.

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“THE SIGN OF HUMAN” is an underground band based in Taipei, Taiwan. The group was founded in 2011 and takes its name from a fictional profession from Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's novel "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World."


Some of their major accomplishments include but are not limited to election to The Next Big Thing 2012, participation in the 2013 Open Stage, 2013 Dagang, 2013 Kingdom Music Festival, 2015 SXSW Music Festival in the United States, 2016 VoX 11th Anniversary in Wuhan, 2019 Wake Up Music Festival, 2019 VIP Walking Music Festival.

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The title of their most recent song (An Iceberg 《一座冰山》) is inspired by an Icelandic film "Noi the Albino." The film tells the story of a young man who has lived in Iceland all his life and wants to escape from that place, where the nights are longer than the days, to live on a tropical island.


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Although many strange things happen in the course of the film, the local people are accustomed to these peculiarities. And so, the inspiration of the lyrics comes from this movie. Born in subtropical Taiwan, the band similarly faces the changes in the environment that others may think are good, while in reality can be quite painful losses.


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On top of all of this they've also released their latest single "Dream of blue and black Yvette", and street sound and Bandcamp are already online. Check it out!


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