Nate Mercereau shares new track feat. Idris Ackamoor and Carlos Niño
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Now fresh off his involvement in the André 3000 album New Blue Sun, Nate Mercereau delivers the second of two new singles: "Excellent Traveler Theme, with Idris's Tenor and Carlos's Percussion in San Francisco" a solo 'midi-guitar-sampler' performance and spiritual jazz awakening featuring saxophonist Idris Ackamoor and André 3000 co-producer/percussionist Carlos Niño. Available everywhere December 8, 2023. Last week he released "Facing The Sideways Rain" feat. Kamasi Washington and Carlos.
In Nate's words --
"I've been making a lot of music with music. Part of my process in concerts and sessions has been live-sampling the band in the room, and then playing that sample with my guitar. I have a microphone recording into an interface, then when something happens in the room that I want to play, I record it and drop it into a sampler and play it with midi-guitar. The sound of the musicians in the room becomes my "instrument." This is also part of the sound I brought to New Blue Sun.
In the case of this new song with Idris and Carlos, this is a one-take guitar performance, recorded in San Francisco at Different Fur Studios, containing a guitar controlled sample of myself, Idris Ackamoor and Carlos Niño from a concert we did at the SF Jazz Center last year. I wanted to make my entrance into the solo guitar tradition, but come to it in a new way. I'm also using guitar synthesizers, but intentionally mic'd up the electric guitar so you can hear what's happening in a more traditional sense as well.
Thank you to Idris and Carlos for being so open to me making more music with our music. In Idris's words,
"There seems to be a natural evolution of our sound that spins out into more expanded concepts and adventures."
"It's a great track! Mysterious..haunting...intergalactic!""
Produced and Mixed by Nate Mercereau
Recorded by Grace Coleman
Mastered by Daddy Kev
Nate Mercereau - Midi Guitar Sampler and Guitar Synthesizer
Contains samples of Idris Ackamoor on Tenor Saxophone and Carlos Niño on Percussion
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