Friday, June 28, 2019

Shigeto EP - Shigeto (Vanity Press)


Title: Shigeto EP
Artist: Shigeto 
Label: Vanity Press
Cat Number: VPR 16
Genre: Breakbeats/Drama/Cosmic Be Bop

A1: Jetsettin
A2: Pusher
B1: Alley Oop
B2: New Course

Overall vibe, laid back . . . however, that would be too simplistic. There’s just so much going on here under a big jazzy bivouac. ‘Jetsettin’ is what Johm Barry would have sounded like had he been born thirty or forty years later. ‘Pusher’ contains lashings of Herbie Hancock . . . ‘Alley Oop’ is a raw percussive jam again with those soaring, James Bond strings, while ‘New Course’ is a relatively subdued handclap enveloped tropical stroll. An evocative, clever quartet indeed.

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