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Its his most important creative accomplishment.
Listen here, onApple Podcasts, or onSpotify, and read an excerpt from the conversation below.
Nate Sloan: What drew you to this multimedia approach?
When you study law, you get to see who the law was actually made for.
It leads you to slave codes and Black codes, Jim Crow laws.
The vestige of this ceiling carries over even after its all done.
And its one of the reasons why we see such a disparity today.
Nate: Theres also a lot of spoken narration on this album.
Why was that important to you to include?
Adrian:Everything I do is analog.
Theres no computers in my recording system.
Does analog recording help you connect with those influences?
To me, there is no greater recording medium than analog tape.
So all these little elements transform into these different characters from back then.
It does bring me closer to them; we were all saying the same kind of message.
How does this project fit into that lineage that youre describing?
Its us not being trapped by what people tell us that we have to do.
Nate: What makes music so effective for communicating history?
Adrian:Music is a document.
When you kind of trick people into listening to the message, you win.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
