In 2023, André 3000 launched his flute album New Blue Solar. Now, along side a piano-themed outfit at tonight’s Met Gala, he has shock launched 7 Piano Sketches, a group of instrumental music recorded solo on a piano.
“warning: no bars,” he quipped on Instagram, persevering with:
These piano sketches are improvisations. To conjure them up, I unfold my fingers out on the keys and randomly however with goal transfer them round till I discover one thing that feels good or attention-grabbing. If it feels actually good I’ll attempt to repeat it. I can’t title which notes, keys or chords that I’m taking part in. I merely just like the sound and mechanics of piano taking part in. A few of my favourite piano music composers and gamers that encourage me are Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Philip Glass, Stephen Sondheim, Joni Mitchell and Vince Guaraldi.
These piano items weren’t recorded with the intention of presenting them in any formal strategy to the general public. They have been private, at residence recordings. I might typically textual content them to my household and buddies.
Pardon the sound high quality, they have been all recorded with my iPhone sitting straight on the piano or my laptop computer microphone except for “Blueberries.” (recorded in studio)
Most of those have been recorded in Texas. The home my son and I have been renting had no furnishings in any respect. Solely a piano, our beds and television screens.
This assortment of songs was recorded nearly a decade earlier than New Blue Solar. The unique title for it was The Greatest Worst Rap Album In Historical past and right here is an excerpt from the unique liner notes.
“It’s jokingly the worst rap album in historical past as a result of there aren’t any lyrics on it in any respect. It’s the very best as a result of it’s the free-est emotionally and finest I’ve felt personally. It’s the very best as a result of it’s like a palette cleanser for me.”
André 3000’s Met Gala look was created by Burberry in collaboration with benji bixby and styled by Regulation Roach. The theme of this yr’s occasion is Superfine: Tailoring Black Model.
