Saul Williams: At TreePeople auf 2 LPs

“Songs from my life, recently recorded, create a music montage with no beginnings or endings.” — NY On his new album, BEFORE AND AFTER, Young has approached a totally eclectic collection of mostly obscure songs like a painter with a new palette. Picking from a vast array of his originals, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone, taking a solo acoustic journey to a new place. Each of the songs blend and create one continuous flow, clocking in at a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. Produced by Lou Adler and Neil Young and mixed by Young and Niko Bolas, aka The Volume Dealers, this is unlike any other album he has released to date. Young describes BEFORE AND AFTER succinctly: “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all”. New versions of the songs themselves seamlessly move and morph with mesmerizing clarity, beginning with his earliest Buffalo Springfield appearance, "Burned," to the recent "Don't Forget Love" (from 2021’s BARN) and including the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love”. BEFORE AND AFTER will be available in four formats: vinyl LP; clear vinyl LP (Limited Edition)), Blu-Ray disc featuring Atmos mix, Binaural mix and Hi-Res 96/24 stereo; as well as Compact Disc. auto_awesome Ausgangssprache: Englisch 979 / 5.000 „Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople“ ist das erste gemeinsame Album des Dichters und Sängers Saul Williams und des Schlagzeugers und Produzenten Carlos Niño. Das Album wurde am 18. Dezember 2024 live unter Schwarz-Eichen und Walnussbäumen im Coldwater Canyon Park in Los Angeles aufgenommen.

Die Performance, die von Noah Klein von Living Earth auf dem Gelände der traditionsreichen Naturschutzorganisation TreePeople organisiert wurde, war die erste ihrer Art für Williams und Niño, die seit Ende der 1990er Jahre befreundet sind.

Zu diesem Anlass stellte Niño ein Ensemble aus regelmäßigen Kollaborateuren zusammen und leitete es, darunter Nate Mercereau (Gitarrensynthesizer, Live-Sampling mit MIDI-Gitarre, Sample-Quellen), Aaron Shaw (Flöte, Sopransaxophon mit Pedalen, Tenorsaxophon), Andres Renteria (Glocken, Congas, ägyptische Rasseltrommel, Handtrommeln, Perkussion), Maia (Flöte, Vibraphon, Stimme), Francesca Heart (Computer, Muschelhorn, Sounddesign) und Kamasi Washington (Tenorsaxophon).