*announcing* IARC0040 Carlos Niño & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current // digi album out May 7th, LP/CD out June 25th

*announcing*
IARC0040

Carlos Niño & Friends

More Energy Fields, Current

Digital album out May 7th
LP/CD in stores June 25th

preview & pre-order
via our Bandcamp page TODAY

After several years of slowly blooming partnership... from his hosting of King Hippo's RAWS: LA (aka Makaya McCraven's Los Angeles debut) at the Del Monte Speakeasy in Fall 2015, to warming up Jeff Parker's release show for The New Breed at the Blue Whale in summer 2016, to sharing the decks with us at Danny's Tavern in Chicago in early 2017, to playing on the LA side of Universal Beings in early 2018, to the summer surprise of 2020's duo meditation Chicago Waves...

We are very proud to announce, at long last, our first feature release by our great friend, the great Southern Californian sage, Carlos Niño.

((( photo by Todd Weaver )))

"Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage"

More Energy Fields, Current is a definitive new peak in the recorded continuum of prolific producer, percussionist, and self-identified "Communicator" Carlos Niño. Featuring heavy contributions from many of the most exciting instrumentalists in the creative music constellation of Los Angeles (of which Niño’s has been a central force for over 2 decades) including Sam Gendel, Jamael Dean, Jamire Williams, and Nate Mercereau, the album collects 10 pristine gems of collaborative communication helmed by Niño, elegantly presented in his unique “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” style.

Starting with the subtle invitation of “Pleasewakeupalittlefaster, please…” (accompanied by the liner note from Niño: “We’re all in this together. I look forward to living in a much higher, much more conscious, harmonious state, here, with You, on this Magical Planet Earth.”), a gorgeously-keyed canonic infinity by pianist Jamael Dean articulates an Earth-loving, universalist ethos that imbues the entire 44 minute program. While the sonics shift and evolve, gracefully placed in patient order across subsequent track highlights “Nightswimming” (featuring Dean and Dntel on modular synth), “Thanking the Earth” (featuring multi-instrumentalists Sam Gendel and Nate Mercereau, whom Niño has been working and bonding extensively with in recent years), “Salon Winds” (featuring Jamire Williams on drums and Aaron Shaw on flute), and “Togetherness” (featuring Dean and Devin Daniels on sax), the naturalist sentiments established in the exposition remain potently present.

The album is ripe with “ambient” passages that function like open portals between moments of consonance and clarity. But even in the occasional absence of drums, there is a powerful pulse implicit in the program’s frequency of consciousness. It’s a testament to Niño’s foundations as a DJ. His distinct ability to craft kinetic, cinematic sonic experience from dozens of independent, often rhythmically-ambiguous improvisational archive memories is more fluently displayed on More Energy Fields, Current than anything we’ve heard from him to date. It resonates, lucidly, with the way Niño’s mentor Iasos – who is known to the world as an original founder of New Age music – has described his work: "Real Time Interactive Imagination, Flow Texturization."

On More Energy Fields, Current, Niño immerses us in the watery depths of his world, spiriting us like a submarine through exotic nether-leagues of untouched sound. And when we arrive at the final, book-ending piece “Please, Wake Up.” (an extended version of the opening theme with transcendental counterpoint by saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings), it’s like a return, safely to shore.

Listen to the opening piece
"Pleasewakeupalittlerfaster, please..."
(featuring Jamael Dean)
& pre-order the album
on limited edition *Core Feelings* color vinyl

((( photo by Azul Niño )))

...about Carlos...

Carlos Niño refers to himself musically, and in many aspects of his life, as a "Communicator." Producing, playing and making music are facets of that to him. He considers his "presence, aura, energy field," his voice, and many collected instruments (a unique and colorful assortment of bells, chimes, cymbals, gongs, keyboards, shakers, shells, and more) among his essence, and hence his intrinsic means of expression and communication. What is he communicating? "Feelings, experiences, perspectives, journey reflections, state of being," he shares. "I am simply communicating, by being, offering, sharing… and mostly with sound."

It was originally through loving music and nature sounds that Niño became a cassette and record collector, then a DJ, selector, beat maker, producer, eventually a musician, and later a “Communicator.” Though he has long made music with accomplished musicians, Niño only more recently (in the last decade) emerged from studio work onto stages and various recording settings to play and create, fluidly, in the moment.

Read his full bio here

*Deluxe Vinyl Package*

CORE FEELINGS color vinyl

More Energy Fields, Current comes on a 140-gram vinyl LP (pressed by Pallas in Germany) inside a deluxe reverse-board gatefold jacket with flooded sunset pockets, glossy insert card, IARC obi strip, and dome-patterned inner-sleeve..

And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 555 copies of *Core Feelings* color vinyl.

Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!

Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada, North & South America

This album will also be available on Compact Disc (in a deluxe 4-panel digipack), on Classic Black Vinyl (same specs as above), and for independent retailers only, worldwide, an indie exclusive limited edition color vinyl variant.

The retail street date for the LP and CD editions of More Energy Fields, Current is June 25th, 2021.

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

On all the same formats mentioned above, this album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, Asia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.

Again, the retail street date for the LP and CD editions of More Energy Fields, Current is June 25th, 2021.

If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!

((( L>R Aaron Shaw, Carlos Niño, Jamael Dean, in Niño’s home studio, photographed by Azul Niño )))