{"id":142354,"date":"2023-12-12T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdelaine.net\/?p=142354"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:52:34","slug":"carlos-nino-is-in-the-business-of-trust-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdelaine.net\/lifestyle\/carlos-nino-is-in-the-business-of-trust-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Ni\u00f1o Is in the Business of "Trust Music""},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Ni\u00f1o has worked on upwards of 150 albums throughout his career and yet, seemingly none have been put under such a microscopic lens as his latest collaboration: Andr\u00e9 3000\u2019s New Blue Sun<\/em>. Released last month, the LP was Andr\u00e9\u2019s debut solo album and his first album in 17 years \u2013 naturally, critics were eager to wax poetic about the instrumental, \u201cno bars\u201d flute record. Most reviews referred to the project as \u201cnew age,\u201d \u201cabstract jazz\u201d or \u201cambient\u201d music. But Ni\u00f1o, the executive producer of New Blue Sun<\/em> alongside Andr\u00e9 himself, says that the rush to define the album has \u201calmost entirely missed the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, just because a piece of music is experimental or contains the gong or chrimes means it\u2019s New Age, Ni\u00f1o observes. In the same tune, just because you could meditate to Ni\u00f1o\u2019s music, doesn\u2019t mean that it’s ambient.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen New Blue Sun<\/em> came out, people were rushing, like feverishly, almost, to write something about it or to have a headline,\u201d Ni\u00f1o tells Hypebeast in a recent interview. \u201cOr to say something even a few days before it came out, even when no one had heard it yet. People were rushing to pre-decide what it was they thought the album would sound like or be like.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Carlos Ni\u00f1o<\/span><\/p>\n

At 46 years old, the producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist has spent more than of his life immersed in music. He started his first radio show as a teenager on a local station and went on to launch the experimental radio station dublab, toured as a DJ and written, produced and composed for bands both locally and internationally. He\u2019s best friends with New Age pioneer Iasos. These connections, his prolific output \u2013 and the labels that critics have mistakenly assigned to him over the decades \u2013 led to Ni\u00f1o inventing a new vocabulary to describe his work: \u201ca spiritual improvisational space,\u201d \u201ccollage music,\u201d “energy music.”<\/p>\n

As for New Blue Sun<\/em>? He describes the project, specifically, his contributions to it, as \u201ctrust music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 and Ni\u00f1o only met in 2020, a few years before making the album, and the tale is so perfectly Los Angeles that it almost seems fabricated. While Ni\u00f1o was shopping at Erewhon he ran into a close friend who was with the OutKast rapper. He and invited the two of them to a nearby concert he had helped to organize \u2014 and would be performing at \u2014 to benefit an ashram founded by Alice Coltrane, one of his biggest musical influences.<\/p>\n

After the show, Andr\u00e9 told Ni\u00f1o that he had been listening to quite a bit of Coltrane himself and saw it as a \u201cmessage.\u201d The two artists stayed in touch and after several months of ideating sessions amid lockdown, they joined forces in May 2021 for the initial sessions of \u201cspontaneous composition\u201d that would go on to form New Blue Sun, which they worked on mixing throughout 2022 and finalized it just in the weeks leading up to its release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe word \u2018trust\u2019 has come up a lot regarding the record with Andr\u00e9, because I feel like he’s in a position where he could work with anybody in the world at any moment.”<\/q><\/p>\n

\u201cThe word \u2018trust\u2019 has come up a lot regarding the record with Andr\u00e9 because I feel like he’s in a position where he could work with anybody in the world at any moment,\u201d Ni\u00f1o says. \u201cPeople will answer his call, but from that day, we became pretty close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Virtually everyone he makes music with is a close friend first and foremost. Since 2008, he\u2019s been putting out albums under the moniker Carlos Ni\u00f1o & Friends, where \u201cFriends\u201d describes a rotating group of musical creatives whom Ni\u00f1o shares a kinship with, a \u201ccriteria\u201d for working together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re actually people that I’m friends with, people that I would have a meal with or go to the beach with,\u201d Ni\u00f1o says. \u201cI constantly do [music] and this is my life, so it happens that 95% of my friend group are also creative musical artists.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Carlos Ni\u00f1o<\/span><\/p>\n

His last album released under the project, September\u2019s (I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire<\/em>, featured Andr\u00e9 \u2013 who was playing the flute \u2013 Laraaji, Kamasi Washington and more than a dozen other artists, including his 24-year-old son Azul, who created all of the LP\u2019s visualizers, adding on to a lifetime of working his father. While he has a long list of musical talents on speed dial, for his next project, Placenta<\/em>, Ni\u00f1o is looking toward the people he spends the most time with: his partner and two sons, one of whom is approaching his first birthday.<\/p>\n

As a father to both a grown man and a baby, Ni\u00f1o says he\u2019s been considering how his children have oriented him in his life, particularly, the \u201cmetaphor of a placenta\u201d following the birth of his younger son. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, he\u2019s also been experimenting with organ music for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve come to the point where I’m interested in collaborating with people that I love and that I trust and that I want to work with,\u201d he says. \u201cIt’s kind of kind of amazing how, in this idea of \u2018Friends,\u2019 they’re actually my family.\u201d
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