*Announcing* Carlos Niño & Friends - Placenta /// album out May 24th, 2024
*announcing*
IARC0080
Carlos Niño & Friends
Placenta
2xLP, CD, Cassette & Digital album out May 24th, 2024
Today visionary Los Angeles-based percussionist, producer, curator and communicator Carlos Niño shares news & the first music of a new Carlos Niño & Friends collection called Placenta. The album’s lead single “Love to All Doulas!” (featuring Nate Mercereau) is out on all digital music platforms today and is a perfect introduction to the album, which Niño has dedicated to “Mothers, Children, Babies, Aunties, Doulas, Midwives, Birthworkers…”
((( photo by Todd Weaver )))
Placenta is announced on the 1st solar return of Carlos and his partner Annelise’s new Earth child Moss Niño. 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 Visual Arts collaborator with Carlos) he felt total inspiration for this set of recordings, and hence it is perhaps 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."
This album is the fourth collection of Carlos Niño & Friends music released by International Anthem in the last four years, and the first released since Niño made news in November 2023 for André 3000’s New Blue Sun – an album which Niño produced alongside André, while co-writing, co-creating/playing, and co-mixing every song.
Placenta features many musicians living and working in Los Angeles – the community which Niño is deeply rooted in, himself. Some live in other parts of the world; almost all are longtime friends and collaborators of Niño’s. In order of their appearance on the album, featured artists on Placenta include: Nate Mercereau, Jamire Williams, Sam Gendel, Jamael Dean, Dexter Story, Brandon Eugene Owens, Maia, André 3000, Jesse Peterson, Ariel Kalma, Surya Botofasina, Annelise, Haize Hawke, Aaron Shaw, Devin Daniels, Tiffany de Leon, Michael Bolger, Michael Alvidrez, Moss, Iasos, Photay, Deantoni Parks, Adam Rudolph, Andres Renteria, and Cavana Lee.
Preorder Placenta via Bandcamp here.
Since early 2024, Niño has been touring as performer and music director for André 3000's New Blue Sun Live, beginning with a January 24th performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
There is a full list of upcoming shows and ticket links for New Blue Sun Live available on André’s website here.
Placenta LA Release Show @ 2220 Arts, May 24th
Niño found space between the New Blue Sun dates to lead his own Carlos Niño & Friends ensemble in a celebration of the release of Placenta in Los Angeles, May 24th at 2220 Arts & Archives. The last time that Carlos Niño & Friends played at 2220 Arts was Friday, July 22, 2022 with Nate Mercereau, Surya Botofasina, Aaron Shaw, Diego Gaeta, Andres Renteria, Maia, V.C.R., Annelise, Linafornia, and special guest Kamasi Washington. Who will play this time? Come hear, come see.
A prolific album Producer, expansive Percussionist, experimental Composer, connector, communicator, Niño is known primarily for his main project Carlos Niño & Friends, and for his extensive work on André 3000's New Blue Sun. Previously Niño made albums as/with Ammoncontact, Build An Ark, The Life Force Trio, and others. Niño cites Iasos, Laraaji, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, Adam Rudolph, Idris Ackamoor, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Yusef Lateef, Alice Coltrane, Airto, Kamau Daaood, Dwight Trible, Dexter Story, Jesse Peterson, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Jamire Williams, Deantoni Parks, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, and André 3000 as among his “closest Mentors, Influences, Elders, and peers, all of whom I know well, (or at least met several times,) in this life..."
Niño describes his "Carlos Niño & Friends" sound as "Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage.” He qualifies: "Why Spiritual? Because there is always a spiritual intention and center, feeling and vibrational message in these records. Why Improvisational? Because I approach the making of this music without any preconceived structures, I just open up to what I am hearing and feeling and experiment until I get the pieces where I want them. The preparation and information in the improvisations is our whole lives. It's an open state of communication. Why Space Collage? Because it's all about relationship and perspective, interval, layering, moving, listening, and massaging the mixes…"
*Deluxe Package*
Placental Purple vinyl
Placenta comes on two 140-gram vinyl LPs (pressed by Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST) inside a heavyweight UV gloss single pocket jacket with hype sticker and poly-lined IARC dome-patterned inner-sleeves
We also have a limited edition color vinyl option, for the first pressing only, 444 copies of *Placental Purple* color vinyl.
Purchase Placenta as part of the
**Spring Mondo Bundle**
For the fervent, faithful collector of our output.
By the middle of April we will have announced five (5) new albums - IARC0078 (Ruth Goller - SKYLLUMINA), IARC0081 (Cassie Kinoshi's seed. – gratitude), IARC0079 (Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX), IARC0080 (Carlos Niño & Friends - Placenta, and IARC0076 (TBA) - that will be available on CD, classic black vinyl, and limited edition color vinyl. The Spring Mondo Bundle combines all five titles into a single, beautiful parcel. Save money on shipping (they all come at once, as opposed to five individual shipments) plus an additional 5.5% discount on the retail value of the albums as an extra *thank you* for your trust in us.
Order the Spring Mondo Bundle on limited edition color vinyl here.
Order the Spring Mondo Bundle on classic black vinyl here.
Order the Summer Mondo Bundle on compact disc here.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on CD, Cassette, and Classic Black Vinyl (same package specs as listed above).
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
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