A working musician - worked gigs all the time and at all times. He was really consumed by it on all sides of it. What that looks like is a way of life and a practice of life. I took it for granted growing up, but you just really know what it’s like when somebody really loves music for real, for real. And the album closes with a longing and delicate elegy that could have been pulled straight from a Tin Pan Alley songbook. “Sanity Envy” tests hip-hop’s dexterity in a shaky Dirty Projectors pop sketch with ragtimey feel. On “Dragon,” Nance blends math-rock with post-bop and hymnal gospel. “Contemplation” dissolves steamy and collisional world-building R&B into a confessional ballad. The follow-up is a frenetic electro-jazz freakout. On the album’s titular opening track, he’s a spacy troubadour, tapping into an ancestral cross-strain of Afrobeat and samba. The sum of ten years of “fits and starts” and exploring his relationship with the control of his own voice, those trials are laid bear on V O R T E X, his debut album, which is set to arrive on August 19th via Brainfeeder.Īcross the album’s 11 winding tracks, Nance oscillates between a range of roles with no regard for genre.
In his latest phase, the director takes the stage as Terence Etc., a sobriquet dedicated to his wide-panning, long-stewing, genre-deconstructing experiments in rhythm, melody, and harmonics. From the infatuated probing of 2013’s An Oversimplification of Her Beautyto the introspective vignettes of his 2018 HBO series, Random Acts of Flyness, Nance’s exploits take on disparate forms by nature, almost never neatly stacking into any particular column of creative thought or expression even. No matter the medium or moniker, there’s a cerebral quality stitched into everything Terence Nancetouches. discusses the creation of his new album, V O R T E X, finding a kindred and inspiring multidiscplinarian in Flying Lotus, and why he’s finally ready to share his debut after nearly a decade of tinkering.
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