One of our favorite things about Flying Lotus isn’t his increasingly free-jazz-y music; it’s the whole package, the way he translates the spiritual transcendence of his aunt Alice Coltrane for the beat head generation, then fuses it all with a director’s eye. As we explored in our cover story with the producer and a separate interview entirely about entertainment, FlyLo approaches his art as such–an ever-evolving project he hopes to hang in a gallery someday.
This is especially apparent in the following short film, which pairs tracks from his upcoming Until the Quiet Comes album (available October 2nd through Warp) with visuals that are both gorgeous and deeply disturbing…