About this Video
Internationally renowned musician Kamasi Washington builds epic worlds through his music. His short film project AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF is a visual representation of his album "Heaven and Earth," an immersive story based in music, silence, and stories from his youth. Hear how he formed a collective which pieced together mind-bending visuals for an experience that transcends.
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington is a multi-instrumentalist and producer born and raised in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Forming his first band, the Young Jazz Giants, with Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, Ronald Bruner, Jr. and Cameron Graves in high school, Washington went on to study ethnomusicology at UCLA and play with Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq and more. His debut album, The Epic, was released in 2015 to rapturous critical reception, embraced as one of the best of the year and awarded the inaugural American Music Prize. Heaven and Earth follows The Epic as well as Washington’s 2017 EP Harmony of Difference, an exploration of the musical concept of counterpoint that debuted as an original work for the 2017 Whitney Museum of Art Biennial.