The fact he got an AOTY nom out of that is really insane

Oooh.

7 piano sketches

warning: no bars

These piano sketches are improvisations. To conjure them up, I spread my fingers out on the keys and randomly but with purpose move them around until I find something that feels good or interesting. If it feels really good I will try to repeat it. I cannot name which notes, keys or chords that I’m playing. I simply like the sound and mechanics of piano playing. Some of my favorite piano music composers and players that inspire me are Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Philip Glass, Stephen Sondheim, Joni Mitchell and Vince Guaraldi.

These piano pieces weren’t recorded with the intention of presenting them in any formal way to the public. They were personal, at home recordings. I would sometimes text them to my family and friends.

Pardon the sound quality, they were all recorded with my iPhone sitting directly on the piano or my laptop microphone with the exception of ‘Blueberries’. (recorded in studio)

Most of these were recorded in Texas. The house my son and I were renting had no furniture at all. Only a piano, our beds and tv screens.

This collection of songs was recorded almost a decade before New Blue Sun. The original title for it was ‘The Best Worst Rap Album In History’ and here is an excerpt from the original liner notes.

“It’s jokingly the worst rap album in history because there are no lyrics on it at all. It’s the best because it’s the free-est emotionally and best I’ve felt personally. It’s the best because it’s like a palette cleanser for me.”

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Andre 3000 has the best discography in rap history? I must have missed that. He only has a flute album.

Outkast has one of the greatest discographies and changed the genre. Not Andre 3000. Outkast. Yall need to get that right. Mentioning any accomplishment of Andre without saying Big Boi’s name in the same breath is a crime.

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That's not the way this works, though, is it? People in this thread are only upset that this is a new Andre 3000 release and it's not rap. So, inversely, it's really daring and exciting that a guy like Andre is releasing an album so vastly different from his other music under the same stage name he's released some of the biggest songs in the history of pop music.

Also I think the new blue sun album is actually gas, too. I listen to a good amount of ambient jazz or whatever and I think the album is hard.

I loved Me&My from 2018, that showed me he doesn't need to be rapping but I would love some vocals

Some good samples in here

Yea I do kinda feel like that song even instrumentally works a lot better as a song than a lot of this does

This is good

i hope he never find that blue notebook

s*** prolly don’t even got any raps in it

Keep it a bean. The titles at the beginning and the titles themselves is kinda trying to hard to be different

Also….that ant song was like 30 seconds long title was longer than the song

Well it’s a demo album

Love me a piano thanks Dre

“it’s jokingly the worst rap album in history..”

Stupid gif not working it just says “that’s true”

haven't heard this yet but I wouldn't doubt it cause that song is fantastic

shoutout to him for feeling free expressing himself but this is kinda just random bs. and not in a good creative way unfortunately

Softly as if I played piano in the dark

wow i can finally listen to this cdq

Nah it’s not that at all

It’s just pretty disgraceful and embarrassing that this is the level of s*** he puts out

I would LOVE an Andre instrumental album

If he actually learned an instrument.

But he doesn’t. He just proudly says “I don’t know what notes are, I don’t know how to play, but I’m going to play some random stuff and sell it anyway”

That’s the problem. Not the genre. He just doesn’t care enough or respect his audience enough to actually put any amount of work in.

If Andre made an actual jazz flute album or jazz piano album I’d be all in. But he’s not even playing the instruments fam he’s just f***ing around

Off Rhythm Laughter might be my favorite track here

If you want musical structure you’re entitled