{"id":23004,"date":"2025-07-17T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23004"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:40:08","slug":"saul-williams-and-carlos-nino-announce-first-collaborative-album-saul-williams-meets-carlos-nino-friends-at-treepeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23004","title":{"rendered":"Saul Williams and Carlos Ni\u00f1o announce first collaborative album, Saul Williams meets Carlos Ni\u00f1o & Friends at TreePeople<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Todd Weaver<\/p><\/div>\n

Wonderful news from two radiant forces, Saul Williams<\/a> and Carlos Ni\u00f1o<\/a>, who have come together for a special release arriving later this summer. Entitled Saul Williams meets Carlos Ni\u00f1o & Friends at TreePeople<\/em>, this marks the first collaborative album between poet, musician, and visionary Saul Williams and prolific percussionist, producer, and cosmic connector Carlos Ni\u00f1o, whose friendship traces back to the late ’90s. The album was recorded live in December 2024, beneath black oak and walnut trees in Coldwater Canyon Park, on the grounds of TreePeople, a longstanding conservationist hub in Los Angeles. Ni\u00f1o assembled a stellar ensemble of close collaborators for the performance, including Kamasi Washington, Nate Mercereau, Maia, Aaron Shaw, Francesca Heart, Andres Renteria, and even a special appearance by poet aja monet. Together, they built a richly textured electro-acoustic world around Saul\u2019s grounding and galvanizing poetics. An album of invocation, memory, resistance, and release, it bridges generations, disciplines, and intentions.<\/p>\n

Saul Williams meets Carlos Ni\u00f1o & Friends at TreePeople<\/em> is out on August 28th through International Anthem<\/a> and they have now unveiled the album\u2019s lead single, ‘Sound then Words’, an affective, immersive and meditative track clocking in at sixteen minutes. Here it is.<\/p>\n