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Creative music has been part of the Detroit landscape for decades.
This latest, a black-and-white music video set to hip, jazzy sounds, is posted on the NPR Music site. The network's Scott Sterling describes the song this way:
This complicated, economic evolution has had a strong and distinct influence on the city's art, easily located within the sounds coming from it. To wit: "Detroit Part II," from the album "The New Monday" by producer and multi-instrumentalist Shigeto, who returned to Michigan after a period spent living in Brooklyn.
The song could be taken as a historic tour through the city's vast and influential techno and house music underground; pillowy kick drum, floating Rhodes piano chords, jazzy sax melodies, disembodied and manipulated spoken word vocals fading in and out the mix, distilling Detroit's prominent music-making legends, including J Dilla, Moodymann and Theo Parrish while stepping foot into a legacy all its own.
"This new album in general represents a lot, but in a large way it represents what I take from and love about Michigan music," explains Shigeto, born Zach Saginaw. "Be it dance music, or jazz, or rap or soul or whatever. Being back here has really fed me, in the way I look at and digest music.
"It's affected everything, and it was a long, slow build to that." The New Monday is a joyful pastiche of Detroit's present independent art scene, reflecting the producer aggressively pushing beyond his comfort zone into new territories and inspired collaborations
