Carlos Niño

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About Carlos Niño

Carlos Niño is a producer, composer, arranger, and DJ with an extensive body of spiritually minded work melding jazz, hip-hop, new age, soul, and other styles. His music blends orchestral arrangements and acoustic instruments with cutting-edge avant-garde production techniques. Niño's notable group projects include the jazz ensembles Build an Ark and Hu Vibrational as well as the experimental hip-hop duo AmmonContact. Under his name, he released notable recordings with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (beginning with 2007's Fill the Heart Shaped Cup) and an extensive series of albums billed to Carlos Niño & Friends, including 2016's Flutes, Echoes, It's All Happening! In 2023, (I'm Just) Chillin', On Fire featured guests such as Laraaji, Iasos, Madlib, and Deantoni Parks. That November, he and South African pianist, composer, and vocalist Thandi Ntuli released the duo outing Rainbow Revisited, an album he played on, produced, recorded, and mixed.

HOMETOWN
Santa Monica, CA, United States
BORN
16 February 1977
GENRE
Jazz

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