“André 3000’s entire performance — which was more jam band than jazz band — was informed by the absence of rapping. In between extended medleys that riffed on motifs from New Blue Sun rather than recreating it as a whole, André playfully bantered with the crowd in the antique-white theater and explained how the intuitiveness of the flute recaptured the unrestrained joy freestyling did for him decades ago. The one time he broke into anything close to a bar was when he spent a full minute speaking in tongues as if a local Pentecostal snake handler had possessed him, before he cracked up and explained that it was a gibberish language he invented as a child — a perfect rib to play on a predominantly well-meaning white liberal audience who probably thought that he was sincerely channeling his ancestors.” Read trillmoregirls on bigearsfestival, feat. André 3000, armandhammernyc, shabakahutchings, clairerousay, and more at the link in bio. 📸 Andy Feliu #BigEars #Andre3000