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- 'I Was Quite Literally Fighting for My Life': Solange Reflects on New Criterion Collection Pick, When I Get Home
The footage is accompanied by a new song, “Dreams (Demo/2),” an alternate version of the When I Get Home track, which boasts a funkier, more effervescent groove. The 41-minute director's cut of the film was released on all platforms on December 12, 2019. The director's cut features new sequences, as well as a previously unreleased track titled "Dreams ". A limited edition DVD of the director's cut was sold on the album's one-year anniversary, among other merchandise items, through her BlackPlanet page. On the album's second anniversary, the remastered film began streaming through the Criterion Channel.
When viewed through the lens of these terrifying yet pregnant times, it becomes even clearer that the work is daring us—Solange is daring us—to reckon with and celebrate the past and the future. Houston, with its multitude of American microcosms, is where Solange Knowles was born in 1986, the year of the first FotoFest Biennial. The city stands in for so much in contemporary culture, and especially for Black America, whose fate is intertwined with that of everyone’s on this planet. Solange has unveiled the extended director’s cut of her short film, When I Get Home, which features additional scenes and a new song.
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Solange released her new album, When I Get Home, today after a rollout that lasted just one day. She followed the album release up by putting out its accompanying “Texas film” exclusively on Apple Music. The short film includes her entire new album, complete with richly realized visuals. The director’s cut of When I Get Home most notably boasts a new credits sequence, in which a group of people dressed in yellow robes move in unison around what looks like a rodeo arena/high art installation.
On the day of the album’s release, Solange also announced a companion film to When I Get Home on her Twitter. When I Get Home features a wide range of collaborators including big names such as Pharrell and Tyler, the Creator, underground artists such as ABRA and Standing on the Corner and even experimental pop artist Panda Bear of Animal Collective fame. Solange produced the album alongside a variety of collaborators, including John Key, John Carroll Kirby, Standing on the Corner, Chassol, Jamire Williams, and Pharrell Williams. The album also features contributions from several high-profile musicians, including Sampha, Playboi Carti, Gucci Mane, Panda Bear, Tyler, the Creator, Metro Boomin, The-Dream, Abra, Dev Hynes, Steve Lacy, Earl Sweatshirt, and Scarface.
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The 19-song track project is the follow-up to her universally lauded 2016 album A Seat At the Table whose lead single “Cranes in the Sky” won the 2017 Grammy for Best R&B Performance. It features a long list of guest artists, including past collaborators like Dev Hynes and Sampha, as well as some more unexpected features like Tyler The Creator, Playboi Carti, and Gucci Mane. As if willed into existence by our collective despair, Solange surprise-released her fourth album, When I Get Home, last night right at the intersection of Black History Month ending and Women’s History Month beginning.
The video references the Houston rapper Mike Jones and his well-known cell phone number. She also set up a page on BlackPlanet, a social networking website aimed at African Americans, and shared teaser images for the album on the site. When I Get Home springs from the Houston of Solange’s third eye, deeply connected, specific, rooted, enigmatic, and experiential. It reflects the varied cosmopolitan experiences she had growing up and her current protective, nurturing embrace of Houston and her home state. A heartbreakingly beautiful film collage, it takes the best attributes of remix culture and applies them to Houston’s architecture styles, from row houses to colonial revival mansions to postmodern ‘80s downtown skyscrapers to the Renzo Piano-designed Menil Collection, which she grew up visiting and where she recently performed. The film is first and foremost an ode to Blackness and Black collectivity, and expressly Black female collectivity, within a uniquely African American experience.
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Solange’s video features locations throughout Texas and foreshadows When I Get Home with its scenes on the stairs and in the lobby of Houston’s Alley Theater. Prior to releasing the director’s cut of When I Get Home on YouTube, Solange shared the extended version of the film at museums and contemporary art institutions around the world. Solange directed and edited When I Get Home, with contributions from Alan Ferguson, Terence Nance, Jacolby Satterwhite and Ray Tintori.
Solange has shared the director's cut of her short film, 'When I Get Home,' which features new scenes and music. The album blends "cosmic" jazz, hip hop, and R&B, and has also been described as psychedelic soul, "new-age trap", and a "drowsy funk throwdown". It is also influenced by chopped and screwed hip hop originating from Solange's hometown of Houston, as well as drum and bass. The album has been described as an ode to Houston's hip hop scene, and is narrated by a range of sampled African-American women from its Third Ward, where Solange grew up.
Solange Knowles is reflecting on the past two years—specifically, the day she released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home. When I Get Home marked Solange’s fourth full-length album and followed her 2016 LP, A Seat at the Table. The singer recently performed a nine-minute medley of songs from the album on The Tonight Show. Directed and edited by Solange, the creative vision behind the 33-minute film was inspired in part by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
Like her previous, groundbreaking album A Seat at the Table, Home is a rich tableau of collaboration, black history, and references to her Houston upbringing (the homeward destination implied by the collection’s title), but the album takes even more experimental risks with her sound. Among the mix of artists involved are Gucci Mane, Dev Hynes, Earl Sweatshirt, Cassie and … a viral Atlanta public-access sexpert? “When I first started creating “When I Get Home” I was quite literally fighting for my life…” reflected the singer-songwriter in an Instagram post commemorating the momentous occasion. Perhaps no performance artist in recent history has paid such exquisite tribute to her hometown as Solange with her 2019 film and album When I Get Home.
The film installment ofWhen I Get Homebreathes visual life into the vocal release, and finds Solo returning home to Houston’s Third Ward. The Third Ward, an important area for Black history and contemporary Black culture in Houston, is where Solange staged multiple screenings of When I Get Home upon its premiere last year. Locations included Texan Tire and Wheel, the Black-owned Unity National Bank, the Ensemble Theatre, where she stared in The Wiz as a young person; Emancipation Park, without which Juneteenth would be nothing but a vague notion; and Vita Mutari, the hair salon her and her sister Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles-Lawson used to own, a kind of ground zero for Black society in Houston.
Jem Aswad at Variety wrote that "When I Get Home is a challenging and satisfying follow-up to A Seat at the Table, one that will probably baffle some fans but intrigue and engage even more". She added that "there are melodies slow enough to sink you into a state of tranquility, and beats hard and strong enough to push you to sway and dance while that happens". Uncut9/10At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, When I Get Home received an average score of 89, based on 25 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts.
The original film arrived back in March to accompany Solange’s new album of the same name. On Tuesday, The Criterion Channel announced that the remastered director’s cut of the interdisciplinary performance art film for When I Get Home has been added to its esteemed collection. The award-winning artist is commemorating the 2-year anniversary of her fourth LP with a remastered director's cut of its accompanying art film.