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Like her previous, groundbreaking album A Seat at the Table, Home is a rich tableau of collaboration, black history, and references to her Houston upbringing (the homeward destination implied by the collection’s title), but the album takes even more experimental risks with her sound. Among the mix of artists involved are Gucci Mane, Dev Hynes, Earl Sweatshirt, Cassie and … a viral Atlanta public-access sexpert? “When I first started creating “When I Get Home” I was quite literally fighting for my life…” reflected the singer-songwriter in an Instagram post commemorating the momentous occasion. Perhaps no performance artist in recent history has paid such exquisite tribute to her hometown as Solange with her 2019 film and album When I Get Home.
The video references the Houston rapper Mike Jones and his well-known cell phone number. She also set up a page on BlackPlanet, a social networking website aimed at African Americans, and shared teaser images for the album on the site. When I Get Home springs from the Houston of Solange’s third eye, deeply connected, specific, rooted, enigmatic, and experiential. It reflects the varied cosmopolitan experiences she had growing up and her current protective, nurturing embrace of Houston and her home state. A heartbreakingly beautiful film collage, it takes the best attributes of remix culture and applies them to Houston’s architecture styles, from row houses to colonial revival mansions to postmodern ‘80s downtown skyscrapers to the Renzo Piano-designed Menil Collection, which she grew up visiting and where she recently performed. The film is first and foremost an ode to Blackness and Black collectivity, and expressly Black female collectivity, within a uniquely African American experience.
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The original film arrived back in March to accompany Solange’s new album of the same name. On Tuesday, The Criterion Channel announced that the remastered director’s cut of the interdisciplinary performance art film for When I Get Home has been added to its esteemed collection. The award-winning artist is commemorating the 2-year anniversary of her fourth LP with a remastered director's cut of its accompanying art film.
The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy. The intro to this interlude is a sample of an old YouTube video of Atlanta rappers Diamond and Princess (from Crime Mob, of “Knuck If You Buck” fame) fake-interviewing each other in the back of a car. Erica Gonzales is the Senior Culture Editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage on TV, movies, music, books, and more. The album is a love-letter to Solange’s home town, Houston, Texas, and is narrated by various African-American women whom she grew up with.
Solange Premiered A ‘When I Get Home’ Film on Apple Music
The extended director’s cut of her short film, When I Get Home, which features additional scenes and a new song. Fresh off the release of her highly anticipated fourth studio album, When I Get Home, the Grammy-nominated singer dropped an accompanying short film Friday . The director's cut of Solange's art film, When I Get Home, is now streaming on the Criterion Channel in honor of its two-year anniversary. There will be more online activations throughout the week on the singer's BlackPlanet page to continue the celebration too. You can reimmerse yourself in Solange’s visual work of art by way of the new director’s cut on Criterion Channel‘s official website.
When viewed through the lens of these terrifying yet pregnant times, it becomes even clearer that the work is daring us—Solange is daring us—to reckon with and celebrate the past and the future. Houston, with its multitude of American microcosms, is where Solange Knowles was born in 1986, the year of the first FotoFest Biennial. The city stands in for so much in contemporary culture, and especially for Black America, whose fate is intertwined with that of everyone’s on this planet. Solange has unveiled the extended director’s cut of her short film, When I Get Home, which features additional scenes and a new song.
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Solange Knowles is reflecting on the past two years—specifically, the day she released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home. When I Get Home marked Solange’s fourth full-length album and followed her 2016 LP, A Seat at the Table. The singer recently performed a nine-minute medley of songs from the album on The Tonight Show. Directed and edited by Solange, the creative vision behind the 33-minute film was inspired in part by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
Solange has shared the director's cut of her short film, 'When I Get Home,' which features new scenes and music. The album blends "cosmic" jazz, hip hop, and R&B, and has also been described as psychedelic soul, "new-age trap", and a "drowsy funk throwdown". It is also influenced by chopped and screwed hip hop originating from Solange's hometown of Houston, as well as drum and bass. The album has been described as an ode to Houston's hip hop scene, and is narrated by a range of sampled African-American women from its Third Ward, where Solange grew up.
The album is a mixture of R&B, the Houston style of ‘chopped and screwed’ hip-hop, and cosmic jazz. Contains a sample of the recording "I Hope You Really Love Me" performed by Family Circle, written by Charles Simmons, Jr; used courtesy of The Numero Group. "Exit Scott" contains a sample from "Poem to Ann #2" as written and performed by Pat Parker; used courtesy of Sinister Wisdom and The Olivia Companies. "Binz"contains samples from "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" as performed by Rotary Connection, written by John Sebastian; used courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises. "We Deal with the Freak'n" contains samples from "Turn Me On" as performed by Rotary Connection, written by Sidney Barnes and Greg Perry; used courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises. "Dreams"contains a sample from "No" as written and performed by Duval Timothy; used courtesy of Carrying Colour.
Solange released her new album, When I Get Home, today after a rollout that lasted just one day. She followed the album release up by putting out its accompanying “Texas film” exclusively on Apple Music. The short film includes her entire new album, complete with richly realized visuals. The director’s cut of When I Get Home most notably boasts a new credits sequence, in which a group of people dressed in yellow robes move in unison around what looks like a rodeo arena/high art installation.
The footage is accompanied by a new song, “Dreams (Demo/2),” an alternate version of the When I Get Home track, which boasts a funkier, more effervescent groove. The 41-minute director's cut of the film was released on all platforms on December 12, 2019. The director's cut features new sequences, as well as a previously unreleased track titled "Dreams ". A limited edition DVD of the director's cut was sold on the album's one-year anniversary, among other merchandise items, through her BlackPlanet page. On the album's second anniversary, the remastered film began streaming through the Criterion Channel.
Like A Seat at the Table, Solange gave us little time to prepare for When I Get Home, mostly because sharing her art makes her antsy; drawing out the process would only make it worse. (“I have this fear living in my body about releasing work,” she told the Times. “I don’t know any artist that doesn’t feel that before they hit the send button.”) Instead, Solange reemerged on — of all places — BlackPlanet, bringing back from the presumed dead one of the original social-media platforms that was created specifically by and for black people. She launched her own page with lyric excerpts and a dossier of new images, both still and moving, that appear to be pieces of a larger visual project.
Music video director Alan Ferguson, filmmaker Terence Nance, visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite, and video director Ray Tintori contributed to the editing process with additional credit given to Autumn Knight and Robert Pruitt, according to Pitchfork. I came to Houston for the first time a year and a half ago when I began a new adventure as Artistic Director of the Houston Cinema Arts Society, right around the time When I Get Home was released. The album quickly became my muse and guiding light, and a celebration of my own Black American womanhood. Because of COVID-19, I haven’t been able to return to Houston, which I have fallen in love with, and so I stay and wait in New York City—my first love, where I was born and raised—and work from with folks in H-Town remotely.
The film accompanies all seventeen tracks in one continuous narrative or visual album with various aspects dedicated to Houston's history including its hip-hop scene, for instance, the chopped and screwed remix style and mixtapes of DJ Screw. The 17th track "Sound of Rain" is accompanied by a surreal, game-world animation akin to Second Life that features original artwork by Satterwhite. Elsewhere, Solange chops and screws her own voice on When I Get Home, like a modern-day version of scatting—listen for it. The album builds off her previous and third album A Seat at the Table, which was inspired by the poet Claudia Rankine’s opus Citizen. The music video for “Cranes in the Sky” from A Seat at the Table was shot by Director of Photography Arthur Jafa, who is one of our era’s most prominent chroniclers of Black America in films like Dreams are Colder Than Death and Love is the Message, The Message is Death.
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