Andre 3000 Drops “Intimate” 90 Minute Movie To Accompany His Jazz Album

Andre 3000 at all times has a left flip to make. The Outkast rapper confused all people when he dropped his first solo album in 2023. As a substitute of bars, which followers had been patiently ready for since 2006, he determined to select up the jazz flute. The ensuing album, New Blue Solar, has change into one thing of a popular culture curio. No person is aware of fairly what to make of it, which appears to be why Andre 3000 had a lot enjoyable making it. Now, the Outkast icon has determined to drop a function size movie to accompany.

The movie known as Listening to the Solar. Three Stacks uploaded the 90 minute function to YouTube on August 29 with a subtitle that explains its intent. Listening to the Solar is an “intimate album movie for New Blue Solar,” and it was apparently recorded on November 11, 2023. For context, the album dropped the identical precise day. The movie is artsy, as one would possibly count on for a companion piece to a jazz flute album, however it’s undeniably fascinating to observe. Andre 3000 occupies the body throughout the whole movie, and there does not look like a reduce. He performs his musical and bodily actions in a single unbroken shot. This makes the move from sequence to sequence much more pure.

Andre 3000 is a frequent collaborator of Frank Ocean. He is appeared on each of the singer’s albums, and he maintains the same hermit persona. It is price mentioning Ocean as a result of Listening to the Solar appears like Andre’s model of Infinite. Ocean constructed a staircase over the course of an hour in Infinite, as new music soundtracked his course of. Andre 3000 has a bit extra focus along with his movie (and half-hour extra to fill), so it is admittedly a extra participating watch.

Three Stacks has been clear about not realizing what he is doing with the flute. He informed The Store that he was a novice when it got here to the instrument, which has been a part of the attraction. “I don’t know what notes I’m taking part in, to be utterly trustworthy,” the rapper defined. “I’m not making an attempt to faux like I do know what I’m doing, in a method. I truly don’t know what I’m doing and that’s a part of the artwork.” Listening to the Solar appears like a cinematic growth on this freedom. Give it a watch if you have not already.