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Lou Hill (Water Seed) Building Immersive Worlds: on Digital Fantasy

·1 hr 15 min·5 clips
Waterseed calls themselves a future funk band because they want to push the limits of what Black artists can do in music beyond the boxes they're put in.
Roberto Ingram interviews Lou Hill of New Orleans future funk band Waterseed about their album Digital Fantasy and the immersive world they've built around it, including comic books, animation, and live shows. The conversation covers the challenges of convincing venues to embrace larger-than-album experiences, AI's impact on music creation, and independent artist strategies for the streaming era.

As heard by us

A loose, practical talk about creative identity, consistency, and keeping a project moving.

Lou Hill and Roberto Ingram use the conversation to talk through Digital Fantasy, while the larger focus stays on how independent artists build a world around their work and keep pushing it forward.

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Why you'd press play

Press play if you want a warm, conversational artist talk about an album and a band building a more defined world around its work.

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