Shabaka & Carlos Niño & Friends at the Audubon Center at Debs Park
Sunday afternoon, underneath a great oak tree in Ojai, we gather on an orchard in view of the Los Padres National Forest for an afternoon of cosmic collage and communication between Shabaka & Carlos Niño.
Flute & percussion, rhythm & texture, life & breath. Sea you by the mountain.
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All Ages. 3:33 - 5:55p.
A Live Recording. Unamplified.
We will be outdoors, among the wildlife,
and at the whim of this final week of winter.
Please dress for warmth, bring a blanket to lay.
Very limited space available. RSVP required.
Address will be shared the week of.
Evocative and poetic, SHABAKA’s musical emanations whether solo or in ensemble (Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming, Shabaka and The Ancestors) are at all times and urgent and essential.
We’re grateful to be a part of this chapter in his life, deeply & lovingly exploring global flute traditions, and hope that you have found the space to share with his most recent records Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace & the Possession EP.
SHABAKA has been called upon to work with Andre 3000, Floating Points, Sun Ra Arkestra, Mulatu Astatke, Esperanza Spalding & Milton Nascimento. In addition to musical collaborations with Carlos Niño, he also made the album art for Rainbow Revisted by Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño.
A prolific album Producer, expansive Percussionist, experimental Composer, connector, communicator, Carlos Niño is known primarily for his main project Carlos Niño & Friends, and for his extensive work on André 3000's New Blue Sun. Previously Niño made albums as/with Ammoncontact, Build An Ark, The Life Force Trio, and many others. Niño cites Iasos, Laraaji, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, Adam Rudolph, Idris Ackamoor, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Yusef Lateef, Alice Coltrane, Airto, Kamau Daaood, Dwight Trible, Dexter Story, Jesse Peterson, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Jamire Williams, Deantoni Parks, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, and André 3000 as among his “closest Mentors, Influences, Elders, and peers, all of whom I know well, (or at least met several times,) in this life . . ."
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…"