BELLY! BY MOSES ADESANYA
MOSES <3 MAGGOT BRAIN/FUNKADELIC
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic is illustrator, Moses’ favourite joint. Eddie Hazel’s weeping guitar sound-tracked our journey around London’s V&A Museum, where we were drawn to the (not so) angelic paintings; namely St Celia and the Angels - who just so happens to be the patron saint of music. Painted by Paul Delaroche in 1836 and sketched by Moses in 2012.
Why is this song your number 1?This song is my number 1 because of the impact it had on me when I first heard it, it takes alot for any song to really move me but Maggot Brain has a real hypnotic depth to it that only Hazel could explain. The rifts of Hazels guitar tear through the whole song from start to finish like some sort of melodic Banshee scream, I’ve always been a sucker for a soulful rock song and Maggot Brain is just that.
Funkadelic front man George Clinton, told Hazel to imagine his mother was dead in the recording of this song. That’s pretty funked up. What drives you to draw?I would say the main thing that drives me to create the visuals I do, is the natural surrealism of our world (if that makes sense?). Quite often I see/meet people, things and places that have a real unique but macabre nature about them whether it’s the appearance of, or meaning behind them, I’m always intrigued. I have realised that the more i see, the bigger the array of visuals in my mind becomes, making it much easier for me to transfer these to paper, canvas etc
It’s Eddie Hazel’s birthday today. If Royal Mail posted to heaven, what would you write inside his card?Message in his card? It’d have to be something along the lines of…. “Have you haunted anyone since your departure? Hollaaa”
Check out more of Moses’ illustrations here.
Heres a video I did for Chevronthree.com
