Emancipator, Shigeto, Marley Carroll

On Thursday, March 29, the CCPA and University of Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM KWVA welcome Emancipator with special guests Shigeto and Marley Carroll.

To some, it must seem like this young electronic producer came out of nowhere. Emancipator played his first live show in July 2009, opening for Bonobo at the Roseland Theater. Since then, he s toured with Bassnectar, STS9, Pretty Lights, drawn crowds at festivals like Trinumeral and Symbiosis, and closed out Sound Tribe Sector 9 s late night parties in Denver at the request of the band.

But those in the know have been following Emancipator since he self-released his first album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, at the age of 19 in 2006. His agile melodies layered over headnodic, immaculately-produced beats captivated fans across the internet and across the world. Soon It Will Be Cold Enough was picked up by Japanese super-producer Nujabes, pressed in Japan and sold 5,000 copies in the first six months. Emancipator landed a Puma sponsorship, gave an interview to Rolling Stone Japan, discovered one of his songs was played at the Beijing Olympics, and his song "Shook," a mashup that perfectly mixes Mobb Deep s mighty raps with a haunting track from the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, became the highest-rated song on Hype Machine s "Best 50 Songs of 2007," and appeared on Hype Machine as the #2 most popular song in April 2009.

Emancipator s latest album, Safe In The Steep Cliffs, blends new instrumentation and organic samples with the signature Emancipator style of clean production, silky melodies and addictive drums. Dense layers of choirs, horns, American folk instruments such as the banjo and mandolin, violin and some distinct Asian influences make for a playful but refined album built out of intricate tracks listeners can enjoy on as many levels as they want.

Zach Saginaw 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, Zach s music is a bridge between the past and present. His 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.

Zach continues to be prolific with the upcoming 2012 release, Lineage - a mini-LP of sorts that has a complex constellation of sounds and ideas that we have come to expect from the producer/drummer. However, his compositional focus and restraint grounds songs that are otherwise cosmically inclined. Never has he demonstrated such complete command of his material.

Marley Carroll is a prodigious multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ from Asheville, North Carolina.

Marley performs with several different formats. He has developed a solo, live PA set of his original material and is a world class turntablist. Marley also performs arrangements of his original material with a live band.

Tickets are $15 advance, $18 door. Doors open at 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00.

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