A Detroit-born artist and artistic director has dropped a stylized, crime-inspired short-form collection with actuality stars.
A press launch stories that Ashwin Gane’sFlipDat Cases is a short-form collection filmed at Atlanta’s Gocha’s Breakfast Bar, tied to his subsequent album.
The scripted storytelling options appearances by actuality tv personalities, Malaysia Pargo, previously of Basketball Wives LA, and Bambi Benson of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, who seem in two separate storylines scored with Gane’s music.
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In “Case File: The Text Thread,” Bambi seems reverse Gane in a restaurant scene that begins as a date and escalates right into a confrontation.
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The episode introduces Gane’s alter ego, Inspector Gane, a detective-style character who examines relationship disputes as in the event that they have been case proof.
The second episode, “Case File: Loyalty Audit,” options Malaysia as a girl investigating her associate’s suspected infidelity.
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“It’s not nearly music anymore. It’s world-building,” mentioned Gane in a press release. “Each scene is a lyric. Each flip is a case file.”
Bambi and Malaysia’s appearances increase on Gane’s earlier Flip Dat launch in Detroit, which debuted as an immersive, mystery-themed occasion tied to the self-directed music video that premiered on Nov. 5 on YouTube and main streaming platforms.
Set in opposition to a surreal Detroit backdrop, the video follows Inspector Gane, as he investigates the layered riddles of affection, identification, and betrayal.
“When I say I directed it, I imply every little thing, story, shade palette, wardrobe, storyboard,” Gane mentioned in a press release. “This mission let me recalibrate my public identification and present the world what I actually am: a director, a storyteller and an architect of worlds.”
Alongside the video, Gane held a Night of Mystery and Peculiarities in Ferndale, Michigan, that includes reside storytelling and interactive parts, earlier than having a launch occasion at Atlanta’s Sauce Buckhead alongside London “Deelishis” Charles.
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