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More Energy Fields, Current

Ten tracks, about 44 minutes, built from improvisations and sent-around recordings.
Carlos Niño & Friends, 2021

The Wire reported that several tracks began as live improvised recordings, two were built from a March 2019 duet with Shabaka Hutchings, one began as a Dntel modular synth recording reworked by Niño, Jira >< and Jamael Dean, and others were collective jams sent to Adam Rudolph and others to add parts; Niño called it a record of spontaneous composition. Credits give the World Stage track as recorded on November 24, 2019 and the Hutchings duet as recorded by Andy Kravitz at Studio 4 West on March 11, 2019. David Allen mastered it. The LP came June 25, 2021, with 555 copies on color vinyl.

Bandcamp Daily's Andy Thomas called it healing and meditative, Jazz Journal's Wif Stenger a pleasant dream that you might wish would never end, and Beat Caffeine a cosmic ambient jazz masterpiece. Twisted Soul calls it the eighth album and Jazz Journal the ninth.

Track listing

  1. Pleasewakeupalittlefaster, please...
  2. The World Stage, 4321 Degnan Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90008
  3. Nightswimming
  4. Now the background is the foreground.
  5. Thanking The Earth
  6. Salon Winds
  7. Ripples, Reflection, Loop
  8. Togetherness
  9. Iasos 79 'til Infinity
  10. Please, wake up.

More from Carlos Niño & Friends

High With A Little Help From (2009), Aquariusssssss (2012), Aurorasmushroomtenderness (2014), Flutes, Echoes, It's All Happening! (2016), Going Home (2017), Bliss On Dear Oneness (2019), Actual Presence (2020), Extra Presence (2022), (I'm just) Chillin', on Fire (2023), Placenta (2024), Bubble Bath For Giants (2026)

Sources

  1. More Energy Fields, Current, International Anthem
  2. Stream the new album by Carlos Niño & Friends, The Wire (2021-05)
  3. Carlos Niño & Friends, More Energy Fields, Current, Jazz Journal (2021-12-15)