best nu-andre 3000 verse

OK, I definitely listened to this, but I have no memory of what I heard, so I guess it fulfilled its function as ambient/New Age music. He should mail copies to every acupuncturist in the US for in-office play.

flute playin is um not good

yeah i'm about halfway through and it sets a nice mood at times, i like synth textures but he's not really enough of a player to make this compelling, he tends to come across these little 4/5 note quick melodies that he seems to fall back on repeating over and over with a few little random sounding runs here and there, there's really no throughline on his playing it just tends to lay there

i'm not sure i'd still be going on this if it weren't by andre 3000

It’s nice! A song from this might turn up on my tracks list, we’ll see.

It’s cool that he wanted to do this and did it.

would love Danny Brown rapping over flutes imo

"dreams once buried..." the last track is the best imo, goes the most out and out ambient wind chimey new agey

sorry but this is sad

i was so stoked about this and so prepared to dig the fuck out of this. but he ... can't play? wtf

Lil Wayne playing guitar energy

I feel like maybe he and lizzo should collaborate, she could help shore up his flute playing and he could help shore up her bars

Hits a ton of bad notes on the second track

new rays of the blue wild angel sun

bj kinda otm... getting madlib yesterday's new quintet vibes from it -- he clearly has a lot of passion for what he's playing but not the chops.

it sounds fine for what it is but ultimately ums otm- not the sort of thing i'd focus so intently on if it didn't have his name attached to it.

I love it

young people seem pretty in to ambient (in my limited experience)

listening to the closer (junior dad) and it's... nice?

Lol corrs

my co-worker said "this sounds like the shit always playing in your office" so I checked it out, very nice... for fans of Soil Festivities by Vangelis, or like O Yuki Conjugate

this totally totally rules, it sounds like it would be in that Chee Shimizu “obscure sound” book

this feels cringe in concept, but i still need to listen lol

It’s also very embarrassing in execution

I like it. But I probably listen to more New Age/Ambient than most Americans.

The real question is what is the tour gonna be like?

Let's not get it twisted, the issue isn't that it's a new age/ambient record, and theoretically not a bad one by many measures, it's that it's a flute record by a man who, god bless him dearly, cannot play the flute

this totally totally rules, it sounds like it would be in that Chee Shimizu “obscure sound” book

100%. if someone had told me this was a lost Steve Roach, Jorge Reyes, Suso Saiz / Suspended Memories album or similar i'd totally believe them, especially on 03 That Night in Hawaii When I Turned Into a Panther and Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control ... Sh¥t Was Wild.

i totally disagree

I think it’s really great that someone as high-profile as Andre 3000 could generate this much interest in an album of drills for amateur flautists

i like it

the music itself is fine but it's ill-served not so much by A's incompetence, which doesn't necessarily have to be an obstacle, but by his lack of any ideas or direction

i think it's kind of a discredit to Shimizu's book to presume that the music is only there because it's rare, when in fact none of it is as lousy as this

i still find this to be okay though, largely due to what everybody else in the band is bringing

lol DJP

he should've released it as a Music Minus One record

i think it's kind of a discredit to Shimizu's book to presume that the music is only there because it's rare,

lots of music in the book is not rare at all.

i don't thimk this music requires any direction either.

obscure/unheralded/"lost"/unknown to many

lol i'm truly glad some people are digging it though. there's just a lot of solemnity to the music and i can't help at certain parts envisioning him taking a deep breath, closing his eyes and leaning in meaningfully as the cymbals swell and ... *botched rudimentary flute exercise*

maybe that makes it good actually

i just got to the end. will i listen again? i may well do. would i consider buying the 3 x lp? unlikely.

Lizzo can play circles around Andre, but I would rather listen to this by an exponential degree

imagine listening to this for the quality of the flute playing

Thelonius Monk said that the Digital Wind Instrument ain’t got no wrong notes

I didn’t mean it sounded like a mysterious “lost” album. I meant it sounded like an album that would have appeared in that Chee Shimizu book, ie it fits into that sonic framework of woodwinds and percussion sparseness and stuff

Hope that the Michael Stipe rap album encourages as much conversation

It's odd to me that the discourse around the new drum-less version of RAM is all "why does this need to exist" while some of the same people with decent taste and presumably large collections of ambient and jazz music are carrying water for a terribly pedestrian vanity project that's three times as long

I mean, good on him for following his muse, and I do believe he's sincere, but no one will convince me that a kid who owns a Laaraji album and SAW2 couldn't have whipped this together on Logic Pro in a single afternoon

maybe that makes it good actually

― budo jeru, Friday, November 17, 2023 3:35 PM

see now you've got me imagining the all-andre band from the hey ya video all doing this in unison, and yes: that 100% makes it good.

i can't help at certain parts envisioning him taking a deep breath, closing his eyes and leaning in meaningfully as the cymbals swell and ... *botched rudimentary flute exercise*

this had me laughing

agree that it's not competent enough to be an ambient jazz album and as a private press new age album it lacks direction, sense of purpose, idiosyncratic ideas

ultimately it's a bit boring

but will enjoy hearing it in the wild if it's picked up on coffee shop playlists

Feel like the track titles are undermining it for me. I've been getting into some tracks and then I look over at the names and feel cheated.

I like this, but to add to a series of FB posts by former ILXor micci0, I feel uncomfortable checking out a flute album by a star/diva when I don't normally check out flute albums.

It’s kind of like children’s books written by celebrities, yeah.

I listened to the first track last night and thought it was kind of nice. It wouldn’t bother me as background music. But not much too it, and for sure the flute playing does not distinguish itself.

idk if i can really listen to this album around the baggage but i do really enjoy some of it, particularly the parts where dré's uh capabilities or lack thereof on the flute ultimately lend these pieces a meditative, hypnotic quality, like on "that night in hawaii" and "ghandhi, dalai lama..." if i'm being honest i sometimes don't even register his playing as flute sounds and instead it's like someone dicking around on a modular synth or something and that's the spirit in which i'm enjoying it

also the piano on "ghandi, dalai lama..." is so beautiful

The band is great yah but the centerpiece of the thing is uncompelling - a rich guy that is bad at a thing hired a really talented band to try to make him sound good. Like a rich hippie guy that just got a didgeridoo and thinks he's good at it but bro it takes years to master that thing.

The second track title is so cringy. For a guy who’s even older than I am, he seems to have a pretty juvenile sensibility.

the incubus dude played the didgeridoo onstage when i saw them open for mr bungle :(

I saw that tour

I heard an interview with Andre 3000 on the radio just now, and it was so serious I couldn't take it seriously. "So there I was, taking a breathing class with Kassia, a world-class surfer, and I heard the most beautiful sound. That is when I got my first flute. Now I have 30, 40 flutes, a lot of them from my flute-maker Guillermo. I got in the habit, when I was in the back of an Uber, of playing along with whatever music was on the radio ... "