Genre Fluid Artist, Branjae, releases her socially conscious, intentionally thought provoking, soulful funky single “Free Facts". Written by Branjae and produced by Tulsa's own, Nathan Wright, this collaboration gets loud about willful ignorance. FREE FACTS is now available now on Spotify and Apple Music , and is featured on the Editorial Spotify Playlist - NuFunk with over 167K listeners, resulting in over 5K streams and over 3K new listeners. Pre production for the projects short film is currently underway with a confirmed crew featuring Emmy Award Winning Director of Photography, Charles Elmore.
In 2020, Branjae had the honor of being on Gangstagrass' #1 Billboard Charting album, "No Time for Enemies", as a feature on the single "Your Land" which premiered exclusively in Rollingstone Magazine. Branjae also began studying for her debut role in the feature length film, Finding Carlos; and gained global recognition with her 2019 project "Street Light". The "Street Light" video captured screens around the world as it was officially selected to screen in the Global Lift Off Film Festivals in LA, NY, Paris, London, Melbourne, Sydney and Berlin. Proceeds from “Street Light” were donated to Domestic Violence Intervention Services in Branjae’s hometown of Tulsa, OK.
2019 also proved to be a banner year for Branjae. Her ode to survivors of domestic violence, “Street Light,” premiered on Afropunk alongside an OP-ED penned by the songstress and the video for the song premiered on Billboard. Variance Magazine dubbed the song, “an empowering testament” and NewNowNext cheered, “her voice is as powerful as it is gentle on a track bolstered by funky jazz percussion and fizzing with undeniable energy.”
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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