Solange Knowles is releasing an “interdisciplinary performance art film” to accompany her new album, When I Get Home. “The film is an exploration of origin, asking the question how much of. Feb 28, 2019 A day after revealing her takeover of the website BlackPlanet, Solange Knowles released a visual teaser for her upcoming album on Instagram and Twitter.
A post shared by @ on Feb 28, 2019 at 8:08am PSTIn Houston, you’ll find the Unity National Bank, the only Black-owned banking institution in Texas that was founded in 1963. You’ll see Texas Tire & Wheel, a local rim shop that has served the downtown Houston area for years. You’ll stumble onto Ensemble Theatre, which aims to preserve the artistic expressions of Black art, and Project Row Houses, a Third Ward neighborhood platform dedicated to developing art in the local community.
And then, of course, there’s SHAPE Community Center, a stapleSolange’s When I Get Home tells the story of the city from her point of view. It explores how the aforementioned institutions allowed her to materialize her dreams and better understand herself. Last Sunday (March 3), Solange’s team flew down a handful of journalists for an album experience in her hometown.Writer and art curator Antwaun Sargent moderated a talk with Solange during a city-wide Houston event that simultaneously played the visual album experience at a number of locations.Understandably, some might ask why bother flying people out to watch a movie that had been released on Apple Music two days prior. And sure, there wasn’t anything different between what was shown on Apple and what was shown in Houston, but the point of the trip wasn’t necessarily to watch the short film. It was to experience what home feels like to Solange.“I think touring the last record, the things that were happening to my body, to my sprint, things that felt out of control. A post shared by (@hypebeast) on Feb 26, 2019 at 11:31am PSTListening to Solange explain repetition as a way of reinforcing the mind and body and aligning all of those concepts was illuminating.
Solange turns to us and describes the power that comes with that practice. “I think repetition is a strong way to reinforce those mantras that maybe we’re given but once we actually repeat them out loud and we call them into action and into our lives.
When I sing, ‘I saw things I imagined’ four times, I didn’t actually really believe it but by the eighth time it’s coming into my spirit,” she says with a smile.She was particularly joyous when discussing her editing process, and how proud she was of her production work on the album.