Shigeto - New Monday - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2010 from the Brooklyn-based producer. 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 chapters in an ongoing story as in Escape from the Incubator, 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. Album Tracks 1. Ann Arbor Part 1 2. Escape from the Incubator 3. Relentless Drag 4. So So Lovely 5. Sky of the Revolution 6. Brown Eyed Girl 7. French Kiss Power Up 8. Ann Arbor Part 2 9. Children After Midnight 10. Look at All the Smiling Faces

Album Tracks 1. A Step Feat. Pete Josef 2. Between Oil and Water Feat. Erik Truffaz 3. Freeze 4. Pointillism 5. Zebra Stairs 6. Abrupt Feat. Douglas Dare 7. Mesmer Mesmerising Feat. Isa Kurz 8. Spaceful 9. Snow Screen 10. Chimp Rave 11. Herzkeks

Sprouting from the same mind that created the Books one of the most acclaimed and innovative groups of the past decade Zammuto marks a deep reinvention of the highly detailed, genre-defying spirit that made seminal albums such as the Lemon of Pink and the Way Out possible. Given the Books success as an experimental collage-pop project, founder and namesake Nick Zammuto could have comfortably extended that thread. Instead he has given US a record that is progressive and forward-looking, intense and driven, with hugely varied rhythms and melodies. Album Tracks 1. Yay 2. Groan Man, Don't Cry 3. Idiom Wind 4. Crabbing 5. F U C-3Po 6. Too Late to Topologize 7. Zebra Butt 8. Weird Ceiling 9. Harlequin 10. The Shape of Things to Come 11. Full Fading