Yasuke : music from the Netflix original anime series

"In his score to LeSean Thomas' anime series about a Black samurai in medieval Japan, the Los Angeles musician aligns his visual obsessions with his wide-ranging musical instincts ... In Yasuke's self-consciously hybrid genre approach, Ellison finds himself well matched with a like-minded visual artist who dreams up new worlds and alternate timelines. Flying Lotus ultimately asks us to consider electronic music in similarly fantastical terms: Why limit yourself to one style or school of sound when an infinitude of timbres and textures is at your fingertips?".

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"Yasuke's soundtrack is so integral to the series itself that it almost serves as its own character - each of these sonic miniatures, almost all between one and two minutes in length, underlines what's going on in such eye-popping detail on the screen and makes it even more vivid. Psychedelic and immersive, Yasuke is another incredible addition to Steven Ellison's diverse and near-flawless body of work as Flying Lotus".

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