![]() In the true story, Boyega plays Leroy Logan, an aspiring research scientist who gives up the lab to join the overwhelmingly white London police force in the 1980s. ![]() The five-film series is playing on the BBC in the UK and on Amazon Prime in the US Red, White and Blue will debut Dec. No one’s doing that, especially not my generation.”īoyega stars in Steve McQueen’s Red White and Blue, the third film in the director’s extraordinary anthology of Black life in London from the ’60s through the ’80s. Be human, rather than having to get into a space where you’re successful but then you have to lose your identity. “Sometimes you get angry, sometimes I’m wrong, sometimes I’m right. “People need to go up there and reflect what’s real,” says Boyega, speaking by video conference in an interview from London. He won’t, he says, “fashion my career to be like a politician” or “take the money and shush.” In a year riven with resistance, Boyega has seemed suited to the moment - an unapologetically candid actor breaking free of PR-controlled Hollywood constraints. He said on Twitter, “dismissively trading out one’s culture this way is not something I can condone.”Īnd in a GQ interview in September, Boyega criticized the makers of Star Wars for their uncertain handling of his character, Finn, and for giving “all the nuance” to characters played by Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley: “What I would say to Disney is do not bring out a Black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. In September, Boyega severed ties with the London cosmetics brand Jo Malone after the company reshot, with a different brand ambassador, a video he had made that touched on his childhood neighborhood and Nigerian heritage. Instead, as he states on his Bandcamp page, there’s an attempt to have the sound more stripped on SHUSH: “The more I stripped back and tried new approaches, the more the tracks came to shape.” Absence is key, oftentimes leaving the listener alone with a sample or beat.“Black lives have always mattered,” Boyega told demonstrators. His first mixtape with the label, Northern Audacity, displayed a fuller sound and comfort with drum and bass and jungle. This EP marks both his second release with Hill 88 and a milestone as the first of his works on vinyl, which is available on Bandcamp. The signs of Surkul’s mastery to disassemble genres in this way shows, given his 20 years as DJ specializing in drum and bass. Instead, the music creates a state of suspension. He builds a mood in each track using conventional elements of the genre and deconstructing them, letting each piece of the music float around, sometimes in step with a beat or melody, or, often dissonant from each part, never completely alienating the listener with this approach. It marks a major progression for Surkul to move away from club-ready drum and bass or jungle tracks. ![]() It’s hard not to feel like there’s dust being shaken off in each layer of synths or drums in each track, but this isn’t to say the songs in the EP are dated– far from it. Something feels old about Surkul’s latest EP, SHUSH.
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