Terence Nance is the visionary director behind the Afrofuturist HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. He's also a musician, having scored his 2012 film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and, in 2012 released his debut EP Things I Never Had as Terence Etc.
Today, he announced his debut album V O R T E X , set to be released on August 9 on Brainfeeder, with a new single “In Contemplation of Clair’s Scent.” Much like his work in television and film, "In Contemplation of Clair's Scent" is a celebration of Blackness through a confluence.
The song's 10-minute version (it also arrives with a truncated three-minute edit) feels like an exhalation at a party's peak, bringing together jazz, rap, and soul for an empowering, ambitious vibe reminiscent of pre-Air Sault.
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