Shigeto
Full Circle LP

The sounds on Full Circle come from four years of obsessive field recording and collaboration. Saginaw brought his Tascam mini-recorder with him everywhere, capturing the “glasses, chains, breathing, children, family meals, monks singing in cathedrals, walks in the south of France, and good friends offering their musical skill” that would all find homes in the record’s compositional nooks and crannies. As a result of Saginaw’s constant documentation, the songs on Full Circle play like chap- ters in an ongoing story--as in “Escape from the Incu- bator”, whose initial rhythmic claustrophobia opens up into a boom-clap nocturnal chase, or “French Kiss Power Up”, whose romantic digital strut gives way to discord and fragmentation as the waves of synthesizer give way to a shaky, neurotic coda. Full Circle is framed by the “Ann Arbor” diptych, a pair of beat suites named after Saginaw’s hometown (one featuring a sample of Detroit MC SelfSays), all double-thick synths and triple-strength kick drums. Saginaw plays the majority of his rhythms by hand, and Full Circle’s consistently deep pocket is the record’s secret weapon, thumping and breathing like a living being.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 2010 / Reissue 2019

Tracklist:

A1 Ann Arbor Part 1

A2 Escape From The Incubator

A3 Relentless Drag

A4 So So Lovely

A5 Sky Of The Revolution

B1 Brown Eyed Girl

B2 French Kiss Power Up

B3 Ann Arbor Part 2

B4 Children At Midnight

B5 Look At All The Smiling Faces