Cherry Blossom Baby
Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.
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Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.
Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.
Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.
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Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.
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Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.
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Detroit son Shigeto - co-founder of the ace Portage Garage Sounds label - dices D&B, rap, garage house, soul and electronica in tried and trusted style on his first album for Ghostly in 7 years, loaded with guest bars by 313 MCs and the Sade-esque Kesswa that place it off to the left of Andrés and FXHE’s Hi Tech and affiliates.
‘Cherry Blossom Baby’ is Shigeto’s most accomplished, variegated and autobiographical album, taking his heritage and stories of his ancestors as cues for a narrative driven cruise between all points of the sound he’s developed over the past 15 years. All his circles bleed into a record that spells out his roots and branches; turning inspiration from photos of his great-grandfather’s home in Hiroshima in 1916 and later at the Amache Internment Camp in Grenada, Colorado, where his family were sent during WWII, for a record that firms up his slants on vintage and contemporary clubmusics thru the lens of his dual heritage.
Using the imagery of the cherry trees that blossom at Hiroshima as a metaphor for cycles of rebirth, renewal, and hope grown from the ashes of destruction, he tunes into Detroit’s sophisticated past and rugged contemporary landscape for a record distinguished by both its choice of vocalists and deftly rude heft. Zelooperz croons quick/slow on the nimble thread of jazzy juke-jungle inflected with Japanese strings that triggers the album with ‘Ready. Set. Flex’, and he proceeds to toggle the drums up/down and off the beat between joints reminding of Hi-Tech and Dastardly Kids, but more spaced out, in the switch from slow/fast bop to 2-step swang on ‘Runnup On’m’ or dank 808 powered rap of ‘BookaMagick’ ft. Cleveland Thrasher, to DJ Dez-style soulful downstrokes in ‘Nothing Simple’.
In classic Motor City form, the closing flourish of songs with Kesswa, a star of his Portage Garage Sounds label (along with 2Lanes, Salar Ansarwi, Pablo R. Ruiz) heralds the city’s deep soul roots between the sade-esque smooth of ‘Let’s Talk’, the dubbed-out boogie hustle of ‘Can’t Keep Up’, and puckered swang of ‘Pressure’ to its night glyde hymn ‘Honey High and Blue’. Good stuff.