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(2021) Carlos Niño & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current
Review:
In an interview last year, the L.A. musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Carlos Niño said, “Music is expansive, and has the ability to inspire people to wake up and to tune into higher realizations of themselves — to have an expanded experience as a human on this earth.” In recent years, Niño’s healing music has manifested in what he calls “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collages,” created with a host of musician friends — L.A. cohorts like Miguel Atwood Ferguson and Dexter Story, as well as New Age elders Laraaji and Iasos. His latest, More Energy Fields, Current, begins with an appeal: ‘Pleasewakeupalittlefaster, please…’ accompanied by a few words from Niño: “I look forward to living in a much higher, much more conscious, harmonious state, here, with You, on this Magical Planet Earth.” The message is matched by the elegiac power of the music created by Niño, who plays percussion throughout the LP, and Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra pianist Jamael Dean (aka Jira > |
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