00:00It's a world unlike any other.
00:02It's steampunk, sci-fi, spaghetti western.
00:05When I read this script, her voice was the only voice I heard.
00:08For Glory, played brilliantly by Janelle Monae.
00:11I want you to be free. Go and come back the man that you want to be.
00:16When she said yes, I was like, cool.
00:18Hey, you should do the music too.
00:25Nate and Roman, who are Heart of Wonderland,
00:27have come onto our show to score our show.
00:32Taking a historical figure and then saying,
00:35okay, we're going to animate this and we're going to add steampunk to this.
00:39It just felt like a great opportunity.
00:41When they said spaghetti western and then anime,
00:44initially we were just thinking like, all right, great.
00:46Let's do some like, in your more corny stuff.
00:48But then like we could bring the cowboys of black music,
00:52Jimi Hendrix, James Brown.
00:54I'm from the Midwest.
00:55So I had heard stories about Bass Reeves.
00:58This is a real man who was a badass.
01:02I'm Bass Reeves.
01:03He was the first black U.S. Marshal ever in the United States.
01:07And he was the highest ranking that any black man,
01:09especially post-sovereign, ever got.
01:13You know what I mean?
01:17Nate and I are scientists,
01:19so we're constantly doing research around sounds and things like that.
01:23You try to evoke something,
01:26and then you hope that the people around you can read that
01:29in a way that feels like emotionally resonant.
01:33If I'm done, I'm done.
01:36Since we got time to give.
01:40I got this guitar made, so it has like a tuning that's a fifth lower.
01:46A lot of the show, you want this lower, throatier sound, right?
01:54Even just that is evocative. That does a lot of work.
01:57It's like a punk mentality that was brought to this space,
02:00and I think that the song has that mentality.
02:03I'm a vocalist, but I love creating characters that sing.
02:12You're going to feel it, like turning your speakers up.
02:23Vocal chain includes a guitar amp, and it amplifies.
02:27It gives a bite.
02:31Again, this is like dirty.
02:35It's sweaty.
02:36It's bloody.
02:38It's angry.
02:46No, that was fun.
02:48I had so much fun.
