Name: New Blue Sun, By: AndrÃ© 3000
Brand: Sony.
SKU: 19658814752
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Man with curly hair playing a saxophone, neon-green shirt and dark pants

Music CD set with booklet and silver disc, black-and-white musician illustration

New Blue Sun, By: AndrÃ© 3000

19658814752

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New Blue Sun, By: AndrÃ© 3000 - Model Number: 19658814752

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Over the past decade, Andr© 3000 has lived without anchors, gently floating in a breeze. Blink and you might miss him: There he is in Japan, flashing a bright smile and a peace sign, his other hand holding a custom wooden flute. There he is again, this time in an airport terminal, playing a few spare notes to pass the time. Wait, is that Andr© in SoHo with a latte? Casually walking around like he™s not who he is? It™s why you™ve seen him in scattered social media clips in recent years: The brother is so admired that any glimpse of him needs to be preserved.

But here™s the gag: Andr© isn™t BigFoot. He isn™t some mythical being living in the hills. He™s very much aware of his legend as an award-winning actor, one-half of the GRAMMY-winning rap duo OutKast, and master of the show-stopping guest verse. Despite the fame, he™s still a journeyman, a student of nature and creativity ” searching, navigating, listening to the wind.

Wind is the most essential element of his new solo album, New Blue Sun, an instrumental offering co-produced by Carlos Ni±o that brings Andr©™s flute playing to the center. Andr© took an interest in wind instruments at least 20 years ago. Though he experimented with guitars and bass, he liked how flutes and saxophones sounded. A jazz fan, he read that John Coltrane played clarinet before he played the sax, so he bought a clarinet and started playing it. He points to the end of 2003™s œShe Lives In My Lap as a gateway to his wind instrument playing. He belts out a few screechy wails to conclude the song. In 2019, Andr© was featured on the James Blake track œWhere™s the Catch? There, he starts playing the bass clarinet with Blake on piano. The engineer captured the session and they put it out.

œI™ve been interested in winds for a long time, so it was just a natural progression for me to go into flutes, Andr© says. œI just like messing with instruments and I gravitated mostly toward wind.

The album features a core group of today™s best healing music players: Ni±o on bells, chimes, cymbals, drums, gongs, plants and percussion; Nate Mercereau on guitar, guitar synth and live sampling; and Surya Botofasina on keyboards and synthesizers. Andr© plays several different wind instruments on this album, including a digital wind instrument, a Maya flute, and others made of wood and bamboo

Tracks

I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A Rap Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time
The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina . Do You Agree?
That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldnt Control ShÂ¥t Was Wild
BuyPoloDisorders Daughter Wears A 3000 Button Down Embroidered
Ninety Three Til Infinity And Beyonc©
Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, And John Wayne Gacy
Ants To You, Gods To Who ?
Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens