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Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw's case, those reasons run deeper than most.
Zach records under the name Shigeto.
It's his middle name; it's also his grandfather's name, a tribute to the Japanese branch of Zach's family tree.
Shigeto also means "to grow bigger"—appropriate, given Zach's premature birth-weight of less than a pound.
Today, Shigeto stands for Zach's vividly beautiful electronic music.
Beat-driven but given to richly textured sound design, rhythmically fractured but melodically sumptuous, Shigeto's music is a bridge between the past and present, bringing the artist face to face with a creative legacy that spans decades. Zach's body of work has grown over the last few years to the tune of several EPs on Moodgadget as Shigeto and with A Setting Sun, a pair of EPs under the alias Frank Omura (another family-name reference), and remixes for Worst Friends, Praveen & Benoit, Tycho, Mux Mool, Charles Trees, A Setting Sun, Beautiful Bells, Shlohmo, and more.
The Semi-Circle EP will be his first release with Ghostly International; the full-length Full Circle is on the horizon.
Semi-Circle is a fiercely independent work of art, nominally indebted to instrumental hip-hop but, like Zach, straddling many worlds at once.
Cool shades of ambient music, stuttering early IDM, dubstep sub-bass, and jazz melodicism color Shigeto's palette, which he wields with a painterly attention to detail.