"Texturally, we are in the right place in terms of time and instrumentation, but we are also threading that needle of being free enough to do something that is wholly original," Atticus adds. "To acknowledge its time and place but not be constrained by it, and also not be a kind of pastiche" that might be condemned as cultural appropriation.
Continue to Variety for the whole interview, and visit the official Shogun website for links to Spotify and Apple previews of the commercial release.