Flying Lotus, Brandon Coleman Spacetalker, Salami Rose Joe Louis, PBDY

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Tim Saccenti

Flying Lotus

In Flamagra, mad beat scientist Flying Lotus has crafted an album that practically invites you to live inside it. Featuring sprawling, psychedelic rhythms and high-profile collaborations from the likes of Anderson .Paak and George Clinton, FlyLo has created another highlight in a career filled with them. To support the album, this immersive 3D tour cements the visual quality that’s always been present in his music. With Brandon Coleman Spacetalker, Salami Rose Joe Louis, PBDY.

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press release: Following the release of his sixth studio album Flamagra, Flying Lotus is gearing up to embark on his immersive 3D North American tour. Kicking off in Portland, OR, the tour will span across 34 dates in cities such as NYC, LA, Seattle, Chicago, and more. If you would like to cover any of these dates or receive a stream of the album, don’t hesitate to reach out.

About Flamagra: Emerging from the sacrosanct tradition of his great aunt Alice Coltrane and her husband John, of Miles and Madlib, Dilla, DOOM and many other pall bearers of the Black American Soul tradition, Stephen Ellison aka Flying Lotus has constructed his own musical shrine. An astral afro-futurist masterpiece of deep soul, cosmic dust, and startling originality.

In the lead up, we saw the producer and filmmaker direct a video featuring the inimitable David Lynch, sit down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music Beats1 and star alongside Anderson .Paak in a musical-anime-short premiered on the adored Adult Swim's Toonami. All the while, monthly listeners on Spotify doubled, he celebrated his first charting single on Billboard.

Praise for Flying Lotus

"Flying Lotus' typically maximalist, psychedelic orbit is grounded in soul. Musings on the inevitability of death may be rendered in high-speed electronics, but FlyLo's love of jazz and hip-hop tame the chaos and bring it down to earth." - Pitchfork

"It just so happens, [..] all my features, they're all blowing up right now. They all got a record right now. It's like all of them. It wasn't intentional, at all. It just so happens Solange is putting her joint out. And we recorded the song like three years ago." Complex

"While the new song "More" was recently dropped off by the multitalented Flying Lotus, the artists have gifted fans with a joint music video. And while further demonstrating his creative flair, the visuals are literally a movie. The cartoonish film was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, the legendary Japanese cartoonist, and anime film director behind Blade Runner: Black Out 2020." - Hot New Hip Hop