Placenta is the fourth collection of broadly imaginative and highly collaborative Carlos Niño & Friends music released on International Anthem in the last four years. It is also the first new music to be released by Carlos Niño & Friends following the November 2023 release of André 3000’s New Blue Sun – an album which Carlos produced alongside André, while co-writing, co-creating/playing, and co-mixing every song.

Placenta is announced on April 11th, 2024, a date chosen because it is the 1st solar return of Moss Niño (a new being in human form, who Carlos and his partner Annelise are Earth parents of). Their experience of pregnancy, labor and delivery were all profoundly impactful for Carlos. Becoming a father again (a whole 24 years after the birth of Azul Niño, who has become a regular artistic collaborator with Carlos) he felt total Inspiration for this set of recordings, and hence it is perhaps the most conceptually-grounded Carlos Niño & Friends album we've yet to present – fully connected to the spirit of family, birth, and "how we get here."

TRACKLIST :

A1 Love To All Doulas!

A2 Some Rest For The Midwives...

A3 Real Vital Organs

A4 Surges, Expansions

A5 In Appreciation Of Chico Hamilton's Vast Influence On The West Coast Sound

B1 Birthworkers Magic And How We Get Hear...

B2 This "I" Was Not Home

B3 Placenta, Nourishment, New Home, The Galaxy

C1 Carla's Beads

C2 Moonlight Watsu In Dub

C3 Generous Pelvis

C4 Bi-Location

D1 "Play Kerri Chandler's RAIN"