International Anthem Recording Company

Niño, Carlos & Friends – Placenta [PURPLE/BLUE MARBLED VINYL 2xLP] - New LP

$ 36.00

Two limited edition "Placental Purple" color vinyl LPs inside a heavyweight UV gloss single pocket jacket with hype sticker and IARC poly-lined dome pattern innersleeves. Lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST and pressed at Pallas in Germany.

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."

releases May 24, 2024

Produced, Mixed, Edited, and Arranged by Carlos Niño.

Bells, Chimes, Collage, Cymbals, Drums, Field Recordings, Gongs, Kalimbas, Keyboards, Leaves, Plants, Rattles, Shakers, Sound Design, Synths, Voice, and Whistles throughout by Carlos Niño.

This Album is Dedicated to Mothers, Children, Babies, Aunties, Doulas, Midwives, Birthworkers, and especially Haize Hawke, Maia, Aleksandra Evanguelidi, Meaghan Snider, Doctor Phabillia Afflack, Amy Tinney, Doctor Dani, Constantia Tielbeke, Shelly Girard, Davi Kaur Khalsa, Marsha Connor, Tiffany de Leon, Destefano DeLuise, Grace Oh, Mia Doi Todd, Cavana Lee, V.C.R, Rosamond Goulet, Jill Townsend-Sorel, my Sister Claudia Niño, my Mom Carla Niño, Azul Niño and their Mom Andrea Flores, Moss Niño and his Mom, my great Partner Annelise, and her Mom Denise . . .

1) Love to all Doulas! (featuring Nate Mercereau)
Produced by Carlos Niño & Nate Mercereau
Nate Mercereau - French Horn and Collage
Named for Haize and Tiffany, and made with Alyssa and Juniper, Banch and Nes Abegaze, Thandi Ntuli and Doctor Graeme Gilfillan, in Heart and mind . . .

2) Some rest for the Midwives . . . (featuring Jamire Williams and Sam Gendel)
Jamire Williams - Drums, Painting and Dancing
Sam Gendel - Alto Saxophone and Pedals
from a Live Trio Concert at Ojai Rancho Inn
on Sunday, July 29, 2018, hosted by Kenny, Serge and John.

3) Real Vital Organs (featuring Jamael Dean)
Jamael Dean - Organ
Organ Recorded by Jesse Peterson

4) Surges, Expansions (featuring Dexter Story and Nate Mercereau)
Dexter Story - Drums
Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals
Brandon Eugene Owens - Bowed Bass

5) In Appreciation of Chico Hamilton’s Vast Influence on the West Coast Sound (featuring Nate Mercereau)
( ) - Drums
Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals

6) Birthworkers Magic, and how we get hear . . . (featuring Maia, André 3000 and Jesse Peterson)
Maia - Concert Flute and Voice
André 3000 - Quetzacoatl Flute and Pedals
Jesse Peterson - Guimbri and Pedals
Recorded and Mixed by Ken Oriole at Groove Masters

7) This “I” was not (featuring Ariel Kalma, Surya Botofasina and Annelise)
Ariel Kalma - Voice
Surya Botofasina - Organ
Annelise - Percussion

8) Placenta, Nourishment, New Home, The Galaxy (featuring Haize Hawke, Surya Botofasina, Aaron Shaw, Devin Daniels, Tiffany de Leon, Michael Bolger, Michael Alvidrez, Jesse Peterson, Annelise and Moss)
Haize Hawke - Voice
Surya Botofasina - Synths
Jesse Peterson - (sped up) Aerophones
Aaron Shaw - (sped up) Tenor Saxophone
Devin Daniels - Alto Saxophone
Tiffany de Leon - Voice
Michael Bolger - Accordion
Michael Alvidrez - Bass
Annelise and Moss - Voices

9) Carla’s Beads (featuring Iasos)
Iasos - Celestial Instruments

10) Moonlight Watsu in Dub (featuring Nate Mercereau and Photay)
Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals
Photay - Drums

11) Generous Pelvis (featuring Sam Gendel, Deantoni Parks, Nate Mercereau and Adam Rudolph)
Sam Gendel - Alto Saxophone and Pedals
Deantoni Parks - Drums
Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals
Adam Rudolph - Dubbed Hindewhu and Voice

12) Bi-Location (featuring Aaron Shaw, Andres Renteria and Nate Mercereau)
Aaron Shaw - Tenor Saxophone
Andres Renteria - Hand Drums and Percussion
Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth and Pedals
from a Live Quartet Concert at The World Stage
on Friday, February 10, 2023, hosted by Dwight Trible
and Mama Nene.
Recorded by Tomoaki Soto
Mixed by Nate Mercereau

13) “Play Kerri Chandler’s RAIN” (featuring Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau and Cavana Lee)
Conceived by Carlos Niño
Produced by Carlos Niño & Nate Mercereau
Mixed and Arranged by Nate Mercereau
Surya Botofasina - Electric Piano, Synth Bass,
Lead Synth, Electronic Strings. “The vamp landed on after acknowledging the original composition was purely a two-chord celebration of the Spirit Driven collective we all are.”
Nate Mercereau - Multi-Instruments as part of the Live Trio
performance, and many more added to his post Arrangement
Cavana Lee - Voice, Dancer, Traveler
Carlos Niño - Percussion and Cosmic Guide, Narrator
Based on a Live Concert Recording of Surya Botofasina,
Nate Mercereau and Carlos Niño with Special Guest Cavana Lee, from King Georg in Köln, Germany on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

Cover Art by Bernard XOLOTL.
Design & Layout by Craig Hansen.
Mastered by David Allen.

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