New Album Releases: PLACENTA (Carlos Niño)

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Artist:
Carlos Niño

Genre:
Electronic, Jazz

Total Time:
77:07

Record Label:
International Anthem Recording Co.

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
May 24, 2024




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Product Description: Placenta is the fourth collection of imaginative and highly collaborative Carlos Niño & Friends music released on International Anthem since 2021. Perhaps more notably for the zeitgeist of today, it's the first new music to be released by Carlos Niño & Friends following the November 2023 release of André 3000’s New Blue Sun – which Carlos produced alongside André, co-writing, co-creating/playing, and co-mixing every song. The announcement of Placenta comes while Carlos is on tour with André, where Carlos offers an immense presence as music director, bandleader and percussionist, performing alongside several of his closest collaborators who are featured on his & Friends albums, including Placenta. Placenta is announced on the 1st solar return of Moss Niño, of whom Carlos and his partner Annelise are Earth parents. Their experience of pregnancy, labor and delivery were all profoundly impactful for Carlos. Becoming a father again (a whole 24 years after the birth of Azul Niño, who has become a regular artistic collaborator with Carlos) he felt total Inspiration for this set of recordings, and hence it is the most conceptually-grounded Carlos Niño & Friends album we've yet to present – fully connected to the spirit of family, birth, and "how we get here." In Niño’s words, Placenta is “dedicated to Mothers, Children, Babies, Aunties, Doulas, Midwives, Birthworkers…,” and a short list of track titles includes: "Love to all Doulas!," "Some Rest for the Midwives," "Real Vital Organs," and "Generous Pelvis." The centerpiece of the album, the sprawling "Placenta, Nourishment, New Home, The Galaxy," is an unbelievably vivid immersion in the sonic architecture of Niño's memory-scape... like being present in his energy field... or being present in a birthing room, or maybe even being born yourself. And it just might be the most powerful, unique piece of music Niño has ever created.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Love to all Doulas! Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Nate Mercereau (03:53)

2 . Some rest for the Midwives . . . Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Jamire Williams & Sam Gendel (07:19)

3 . Real Vital Organs Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Jamael Dean (03:58)

4 . Surges, Expansions Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Dexter Story & Nate Mercereau (02:43)

5 . In Appreciation of Chico Hamilton’s Vast Influence on the West Coast Sound Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Nate Mercereau (02:44)

6 . Birthworkers Magic, and how we get hear . . . Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Maia, André 3000 .& Jesse Peterson (07:22)

7 . This “I” was not Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Ariel Kalma & Annelise (02:37)

8 . Placenta, Nourishment, New Home, The Galaxy Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Haize Hawke, Surya Botofasina, Aaron Shaw, Devin Daniels, Tiffany de Leon, Michael Bolger, Michael Alvidrez, Jesse Peterson, Annelise & Moss (09:03)

9 . Carla's Beads Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Iasos (01:52)

10 . Moonlight Watsu in Dub Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Nate Mercereau & Photay (04:34)

11 . Generous Pelvis Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Sam Gendel, Deantoni Parks, Nate Mercereau & Adam Rudolph (04:27)

12 . Bi-Location Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Aaron Shaw, Andres Renteria & Nate Mercereau (09:08)

13 . “Play Kerri Chandler’s RAIN” Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau & Cavana Lee (17:33)

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