The music of Zach Saginaw\, who records as Shigeto\, has alw ays cross-wired of a host of different musical influences. His EPs Semi-Cir cle and What We Held Onto explored his grandmothers experience from a US in ternment camp through ambient\, beat-driven tracks\, using samples of his g randmothers voice. His debut album Full Circle was a culmination of these E Ps\, employing obsessive field recording and meticulous percussion to creat e sumptuous instrumental hip-hop. 2012s sophomore album Lineage was a music al journey through his heritage set to the sounds of jazz\, hip-hop\, funk and folk. And 2012&rsquo\;s No Better Time Than Now was an album about livi ng in the moment\, with songs that seemed to be harbingers of change and im mediacy (&ldquo\;First Saturn Return\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;Soul Searching&rdquo \;).
\n\nIn the years since No Better Time Than Now\, Shigeto&rsquo\; s experience as a musician has only deepened. He recorded tracks for the De troit rapper ZelooperZ\, and performed with jazz legend Dave Douglass&rsquo \; High Risk Project. &ldquo\;I couldn&rsquo\;t accept the fact that I was hanging\,&rdquo\; he laughs. &ldquo\;I was like\, wait\, I dropped out of j azz school\, how does this work?&rdquo\; &ldquo\;But what it did was make m e realize that music is music&mdash\;you don&rsquo\;t have to be a certain type of musician or trained in a certain way in order to contribute to some thing. It was very liberating.&rdquo\;
\n\nThat sense of liberation c omes through in every track on Intermission. It&rsquo\;s not electronic mus ic\, it&rsquo\;s not jazz\, it&rsquo\;s not hip-hop&mdash\;it&rsquo\;s all of those\; &ldquo\;Pulse&rdquo\; blends glacial electronics with plinking v ibraphones (&ldquo\;That song is kind of a dancefloor-type song\, which is different for me\,&rdquo\; Saginaw says). On the other end of the spectrum entirely are &ldquo\;Gently&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Deep Breathing\,&rdquo\; tw o moody\, spacious\, beat-less songs that spin soft strands of synth over e mpty air. Taken together\, the songs tell the story of an artist with a bro ad musical background stretching out and exploring his influences. &ldquo\; When I&rsquo\;m having a lot of fun\, that&rsquo\;s how I know when I&rsquo \;m on to something\,&rdquo\; he says. &ldquo\;Like the first time you ever realized you could plug a microphone into your interface and record your o wn sounds\, and your whole world was changed. Intermission is like that for me&mdash\;its about getting that feeling again.&rdquo\;
\n\nDOORS OP EN: 830PM
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\n\nThis event admits 18-and-above
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