Placenta is the fourth collection of broadly imaginative and highly
collaborative Carlos Niño & Friends music released on International
Anthem in the last four years. It is also the first new music to be
released by Carlos Niño & Friends following the November 2023
release of André 3000’s New Blue Sun – an album which Carlos produced
alongside André, while co-writing, co-creating/playing, and co-mixing
every song.
Placenta is announced on April 11th, 2024, a date chosen because it is
the 1st solar return of Moss Niño (a new being in human form, who Carlos
and his partner Annelise are Earth parents of). 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 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."
Tracklist:
1. Love to all Doulas!
2. Some rest for the Midwives . . .
3. Real Vital Organs
4. Surges, Expansions
5. In Appreciation of Chico Hamilton's Vast Influence on the West Coast Sound
6. Birthworkers Magic, and how we get hear . . .
7. This "I" was not
8. Placenta, Nourishment, New Home, The Galaxy
9. Carla's Beads
10. Moonlight Watsu in Dub
11. Generous Pelvis
12. Bi-Location
13. "Play Kerri Chandler's RAIN"