Shigeto - Full Circle

2010 release 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.