Carlos Nio & Friends – Placenta

Description

Placenta is the fourth collection of broadly imaginative and highly collaborative Carlos Nio & Friends music released on International Anthem in the last four years. It is also the first new music to be released by Carlos Nio & Friends following the November 2023 release of Andr 3000s New Blue Sun an album which Carlos produced alongside Andr, 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 Nio (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 Nio, 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 Nio & 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”