Carlos Niño - "Thankingtheearth LIVE"// new single release and upcoming shows
* ANNOUNCING *
Carlos Niño & Friends
"Thankingtheearth LIVE"
In celebration of Carlos Niño completing another revolution around the sun, we proudly present "Thankingtheearth LIVE", featuring:
Nate Mercereau - Guitar, Guitar Synth and Pedals
Josh Johnson - Alton Saxophone and Pedals
Carlos Niño - Bells, Chimes, Cymbals, Gong, Drums, Rattles, Shakers, Whistles . . .
This is a live version of Carlos Niño & Friends' "Thanking The Earth", from the 2021 release More Energy Fields, Current (IARC0040). This reinterpretation was recorded live, direct to cassette tape by Justin Hansohn during a gathering in his (and Taylor's) backyard on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Recently, (almost two years later), Carlos added more layers of Percussion, Ocean, Rain, prominent Bells, Chimes, Cymbals, and a new outro.
* Catch Carlos Live!! *
Carlos Niño & Friends will be playing the following shows in California this month.
LOS ANGELES
New Single Release + Solar Return Anniversary Concert
Friday, February 17, 2023
Carlos Niño & Friends featuring Nate Mercereau, V.C.R., Devin Daniels, and Photay
TOWNHOUSE DOWNSTAIRS
52 Windward Avenue
Venice, CA
7:15pm Doors. Free, 21+
SAN FRANCISCO
SFJAZZ Performances
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Carlos Niño & Friends at SFJAZZ featuring Nate Mercereau and special guest Idris Ackamoor
JOE HENDERSON LAB
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA
7:00pm and 8:30pm sets
ALSO, SAVE THE DATE
(After the Leaving Records and floating event in Elysian Park,) Saturday, March 4, 2023.
Very, very, Incredible event happening at Self Help Graphics .
* Carlos Niño & Friends on International Anthem *
More Energy Fields, Current
Carlos Niño & Friends
More Energy Fields, Current is a definitive new peak in the recorded continuum of prolific producer/percussionist Carlos Niño. Featuring contributions from more than a dozen exciting voices in the creative music constellation of Los Angeles (of which Niño’s has been a central force for over 2 decades), including Sam Gendel, Nate Mercereau, Jamael Dean, and Jamire Williams, the album collects 10 pristine gems of collaborative communication helmed by the Southern Californian sage, elegantly presented in his unique “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” style.
The album is ripe with “ambient” passages that function like open portals between moments of consonance and clarity, and epic post-hip-hop opuses like the heavy/heady “Thanking the Earth.” 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 a kinetic, cinematic sonic experience from dozens of independent, often rhythmically-ambiguous improvisational 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, featuring saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings), it’s like a return, safely to shore.
* Deluxe Vinyl Package *
Core Feelings color vinyl LP
Limited edition 140-gram *Core Feelings* color vinyl LP (pressed by Pallas in Germany) in a deluxe reverse-board gatefold jacket with flooded sunset pockets, glossy insert card, obi strip, and dome-patterned inner-sleeve.
An Offering
Photay with Carlos Niño
The first album-length collaboration between Evan Shornstein (aka Photay) and Carlos Niño.
EXTRA PRESENCE
Carlos Niño & Friends
EXTRA PRESENCE is an expanded edition of a 10-track suite that Niño self-released exclusively via Bandcamp in 2020.
Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada, North & South America
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 these albums, 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, Australia, and ROW
We are distributed by our good friends at !K7 Music and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, 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!!!
