Ahead of the release of his latest project, 'Glow,' we caught up with wesleyjoseph__ to talk about his knack for experimental musicality and his eye for high-art visuals
A stylish eye for cinematic detail matched with an ear steeped in both contemporary trends and the past sums up West Midlands-born Brit. Growing up hearing his father play Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson, he embraced everything from Lupe Fiasco to Madlib and Gorillaz, a surprising mix of influences that would lay the foundation for the genre-blending alternative hip-hop sound he’s since coined.
“It’s the visuals, the textures, the colors, the references, the photography, the artistic visual language of it all that just ties together,” Joseph explains. “There’s so much that goes into it, and it’s not about being super modernized or contemporary. It’s also about pulling from the right places in the past without it feeling dated.”
“It’s kind of a beautiful chemistry because whenever I develop as an artist musically and I have a whole new world of sounds straight away, they’re inspiring a new world of visuals,” Joseph says. “Whenever I grow as a musician, my visuals tend to grow as well because I’ve been working at them for the same amount of time at the same time. Like music, I get to make whatever film I want without boundaries.
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