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 set 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 function transfer them round till I discover one thing that feels good or fascinating. If it feels actually good I’ll attempt to repeat it. I can’t title which notes, keys or chords that I’m enjoying. I merely just like the sound and mechanics of piano enjoying. 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 technique to the general public. They had been private, at residence recordings. I might generally textual content them to my household and mates.
Pardon the sound high quality, they had been all recorded with my iPhone sitting instantly on the piano or my laptop computer microphone aside from “Blueberries.” (recorded in studio)
Most of those had been recorded in Texas. The home my son and I had 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 Finest 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 perfect as a result of it’s the free-est emotionally and greatest I’ve felt personally. It’s the perfect 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 Fashion.
