Carlos Niño’s Bubble Bath For Giants comes forth from the current this week to grow within our lives & it’s a deep sea deep time kind of joy to share in this cosmic collaborative expression with two album release concerts.
On this evening before the vernal equinox, a potent time of renewal and return, we gather among friends in the whimsical fantasy that is the Santa Barbara Whale House to revel in the transformative nature of art. This will be an intimate gathering alongside one of the great Southern California architectural works of the 1970s.
Gathering starts at 4p, Annelise Niño will be DJ’ing throughout the evening, and Carlos Niño & Friends will begin shortly after 6p featuring Aaron Shaw on tenor sax and flute, Maia The Artiste on harp, Michael Alvidrez on bass, and Esmeralda Rose on scent, smile, and spiritual support. Absolutely delicious homemade food will be available for purchase from the grandmama of the house & feel free to float in the pool.
Dream the world you want into being & do it with your friends. See you here.
A prolific album Producer, expansive Percussionist, experimental Composer, connector, and communicator, Carlos Niño is known primarily for his main project Carlos Niño & Friends, and for his extensive work with both Saul Williams and on André 3000’s New Blue Sun.
Niño describes his "Carlos Niño & Friends" sound as "Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage.” He qualifies: "Why Spiritual? Because there is always a spiritual intention and center, feeling and vibrational message in these records. Why Improvisational? Because I approach the making of this music without any preconceived structures, I just open up to what I am hearing and feeling and experiment until I get the pieces where I want them. The preparation and information in the improvisations is our whole lives. It's an open state of communication. Why Space Collage? Because it's all about relationship and perspective, interval, layering, moving, listening, and massaging the mixes…"
The Santa Barbara Whale House was built by Michael Carmichael (and some of his friends) between the years of 1973 and 1978.
It was immediately considered a great architectural achievement with its 75 foot a blue tiled indoor-outdoor pool, hand carved sauna, hundreds of thousands of hand cut cedar shingles, artfully undulating plaster, Danish stained glass in every window cut with wave patterns, Willy-Wonka-esque elevator, indoor spa, and inumerable other fantastical and delightful details. The home is built around a castle-like tower of ferro-cement and foraged river rock from the creek that passes through the property.