!!! REAL, LIVE, MUSIC !!!
...our first IA presentation IRL in almost 18 months...

Los Angeles, July 10th, 2021. Producer/percussionist Carlos Niño celebrates the release of his new International Anthem LP More Energy Fields, Current with a quartet performance featuring friends Surya Botofasina, Efa Etoroma Jr, and Pablo Calogero.

A special solo guitar set by Jeff Parker will open the event; and we'll have DJ sets all night by heavyweight selectors - IA family traveling from Chicago - Ayana Contreras and King Hippo.

International Anthem presents

Carlos Niño & Friends
More Energy Fields, Current
with Surya Botofasina,
Pablo Calogero & Efa Etoroma Jr.

Jeff Parker
solo guitar

+ DJ sets by
Ayana Contreras & King Hippo

Saturday July 10th 2021
at
GOLD DIGGERS
5632 Santa Monica Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA

Doors 7pm
Show 8pm
Tickets $20

!!! PURCHASE TICKETS HERE !!!

ALSO LIVE (VIDEO) STREAMING THIS GIG WORLDWIDE
VIA OUR BANDCAMP PAGE !!!

For those who can't make it to LA on July 10th... We'll be streaming this show on our Bandcamp page! Obviously 8pm PST is pretty late for our friends in EU & UK (& most places, really)... but ne'er fear, even if you can't stay up till the wee hours to catch the LIVE broadcast, the stream will be watch-able for 24 hours after it airs.

And as a bonus, a live stream ticket purchase on our BC page comes with a free digital download of Carlos Niño & Friends new joint. So grab yourself (& your friends) some stream tickets to the gig today!!!

!!! LIVE STREAM TICKETS HERE !!!

CARLOS INTERVIEWED BY AYANA CONTRERAS
!!! ON THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM PODCAST !!!

The new episode of our basically brand new podcast features host Ayana Contreras going deep with Carlos about record collecting, his roots as a radio producer and curator, and how those experiences informed forays into composing music and creating albums.

(Supported in part by Record Surplus, an independent record shop in Los Angeles, CA.)

!!! Listen to this episode of the IA Podcast here !!!

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Carlos Niño & Friends

More Energy Fields, Current

"More Energy Fields, Current, o novíssimo disco que acaba de lançar na International Anthem de Chicago, tem na capa uma onda e essa é uma boa imagem para definir o próprio Carlos Niño: ele é, de facto, uma onda que atravessa os últimos." – Rimas e Batidas

"The warmth that permeates Niño’s music disguises just how challenging some of it can be." – Pitchfork

"Niño lives 10 miles from where Alice Coltrane’s ashram stood before it burned down in California wildfires. I visited Coltrane there to record one of her last interviews. “Pouring into my spirit” is how she described her sound, and Niño shares that expressive ethos." – Mother Jones

"The creative music constellation of Los Angeles is more than present in More Energy Fields, Current, connecting moments of consonance and clarity." – Flaunt Magazine

"The record’s potency comes from the free, intuitive flow of Niño and his collective of musicians." – Bandcamp Daily

order More Energy Fields, Current
via our Bandcamp page TODAY

((( photo by Todd Weaver ))) — ((( 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.

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 is also 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.

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 is 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.

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!!!