LAシーンのキーパーソン、カルロス・ニーニョ最新作!
ネイト・マーセロー、アンドレ・3000参加の幅広い想像力と高度なコラボレーションによる音楽集!

ジャズ、ヒップホップ、ニューエイジなどを横断するLAシーンのキーパーソン、カルロス・ニーニョ。インターナショナル・アンセムからカルロス・ニーニョ&フレンズ4作目の音楽集『プラセンタ』がリリース!今作は「母親、子供、赤ちゃん、おばさん、ドゥーラ、助産師、出産ワーカーに捧げる」ものであり、ネイト・マーセロー、アンドレ・3000他豪華参加アーティストが揃った、幅広い想像力と高度なコラボレーションによる音楽集!

参加メンバー一覧
Nate Mercereau、Jamire Williams、Sam Gendel、Jamael Dean、Dexter Story、Brandon Eugene Owens、Maia、Andre 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、Cavana Lee

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/05/01）

Percussionist, conceptualist, and producer Carlos Nino has an extensive discography of more than 350 recordings hes either released or contributed to. In 2023 and 2024 alone, he released or co-released seven albums, and he co-produced and played on Andre 3000s New Blue Sun and Shabaka Hutchings Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. Placenta, the 13th long-player by Carlos Nino & Friends, was announced on April 24, the first birthday of his second child, Moss Nino. It is a loose, warm concept album whose undulant themes relate to the physical and spiritual aspects of birth and parenthood. The album is dedicated to "Mothers, Children, Babies, Aunties, Doulas, Midwives, Birthworkers…." Nino serves as impresario, guide, percussionist, and ringmaster here. Opener "Love to all Doulas!" is a gently swaying ballad that features Nate Mercereau on French horn and sound collages, and Nino, who paints the backdrops with electronic drones, bells, and chimes. "Some rest for the Midwives…" (featuring Jamire Williams and Sam Gendel) is from a 2018 trio concert with Gendel on alto sax and pedals, and drummer/percussionist Williams. Ninos layered flutes, bells, and percussion implements frame Williams brushed snares and tom-toms in a cut that sounds like a danceable Jon Hassell track. "Real Vital Organs" references both human anatomy and the instrument; it is almost entirely created from overlapping organ patterns by Jamael Dean. The entire album flows without urgency, fragmentation, or undue sonic decoration. The short, wonderful synth and snare cut "In Appreciation of Chico Hamiltons Vast Influence on the West Coast Sound" showcases the great jazz drummers self-created patterns, beats, and accents under a spectral body of Mercereaus guitar synth and pedals. "This I was not" includes vocals by new age pioneer Ariel Kalma with Surya Botofasina playing organ atop organic percussion. "Birthworkers Magic, and how we get hear…" features session multi-instrumentalist Jesse Peterson playing guimbri and pedals under the flute of Maia the Artiste and Andre 3000s flutes, with Nino slotting in drum and percussion loops. "Placenta, Nourishment, New Home, The Galaxy" offers the voices -- spoken and sung -- of doula Haize Hawke, Maia, and others, with pulsing accordion, sampled baby cooing, upright bass, saxes, and an electronically accelerated aerophone, creating a sense of dreamy drifting for over nine minutes. Another nine-plus-minute undulant soundscape, "Bi-Location," was recorded live in 2023 with Nino leading a quartet with Mercereau on guitar synth and pedals, Andres Renteria on drums and percussion, and Aaron Shaw on tenor saxophone. Closer "Play Kerri Chandlers RAIN" is a studio update of a live recording made at a 2022 concert in Cologne, Germany, featuring Botofosina, Mercereau, and German vocalist and dancer Cavana Lee. It follows the path of improvised abstraction, but Ninos organic-sounding samples, synths, loops, and percussive elements transform the sonic formlessness into an articulate, soulful sonic meditation. Placentas sound, while immediately recognizable as a work of Ninos, goes very deep and very wide due to his familiarity, respect for, and reliance on the gifts of his studio cast. ~ Thom Jurek

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