We started talking a lot, and after a two-year build-up, once she started really recording, she brought me into the fold. Then with Chassol we opened a couple shows for her too. She was really into that, I opened for her a couple times with that. I did a solo drum record maybe at the end of 2016, and after I put that out I was doing solo performances and concept shows. We grew up together in Houston and went to junior high together. Williams: I’ve been knowing Solange probably since I was 13. The two spoke about recording with Solange in Los Angeles and the stew of influences that seeped into When I Get Home. Two of her allies on When I Get Home are Christophe Chassol, a classically trained pianist with pop-world credits for Phoenix and Frank Ocean, and Jamire Williams, who has played with jazz acts like Kenny Garrett and Christian Scott in addition to indie singers like Dev Hynes and Moses Sumney. “It could be six hours before I hear the one ad-lib or the one thing where I think, ‘OK, that is how I can extend this into an expression of what I want to achieve.'”Īs she has proved on previous albums, Solange is adept at identifying unexpected collaborators and uniting them in service of her vision. “The best for me is to invite people into the space and say ‘do you,'” the star explained during a Houston album-release event that was live-streamed by Apple Music. Solange oversaw the making of the album with scrupulous care, starting in Houston and then continuing later in sessions in Los Angeles and Jamaica.

Solange’s When I Get Home, released on Friday, feels both meticulous and off-the-cuff, hyper-melodic for those listeners enticed by the Seventies references on 2016’s A Seat at the Table, but also attuned to the short track-lengths and loop structures favored by today’s young streamers.

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