![]() The DNA for Flamagra was being built on traditional elements of hip-hop but there was also a newness present, as Flylo was developing an appreciation for the piano.įrom here the spirit of Flamagra continued to flicker - It was the fall of 2018 and fantastic colors swarmed Flying Lotus inside an art installation created by Tokyo’s Team Labs. ![]() What had previously been a series of experiments coalesced into a transformative vision. And I was like, ‘that’s it, we’re just going to go in that direction.” Then I went to this party and heard David Lynch saying the words that he wound up saying on the record. Some people would go on dates there and some people would burn love letters in the fire. “Some people love it, some people hate it. I’d always had this thematic idea in mind - a lingering concept about fire, an eternal flame sitting on a hill,” Lotus says. “I’d been working on stuff for the past five years, but it was always all over the place. David Lynch even pops up for an eerie narration wherein he somberly warns that, “Fire is coming.” But they all naturally bend to the magnetic warp of Lotus’ spells - a transfixing hex unto themselves. Paak, George Clinton, Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon, Tierra Whack, Denzel Curry, Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces, Toro y Moi, and his telepathic kinsman, Thundercat. He’s aided by a dream cast of collaborators: Anderson. ![]() An astral afro-futurist masterpiece of deep soul, cosmic dust, and startling originality. Other than to say that it is a Flying Lotus record, perhaps the definitive one. Beat scene, but it soars above a specific vortex whose coordinates can’t be accurately charted. Yet throughout that span, there was the matter of his next full-length statement.Įnter Flamagra – a work that sweeps up every quantum advance and creative leap of the last dozen years of Lotus’ career and takes them even further the Warp release encompasses hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, global dance music, tribal poly-rhythms, IDM, the L.A. He’s also nurtured his Brainfeeder imprint into the most consistently innovative record label of the decade. ![]() Nearly half a decade has somehow elapsed since the last Flying Lotus album - the Grammy-nominated cadaver tetris of You’re Dead! During that intermission, the multi-disciplinary Los Angeles artist has remained in constant orbit, collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on the classic To Pimp a Butterfly, directing and writing the Sundance-premiered comic horror hallucination Kuso, and producing much of Thundercat’s Drunk. ![]()
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