Shigeto has regularly visited the NTS studio, first back in 10 February 2014 and most recently on 9 October 2017. Shigeto has been played on NTS over 70 times, featured on 74 episodes and was first played on 2 July 2012.

Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach 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…