When introducing multi-instrumentalist Nate Mercereau from the stage every night on his New Blue Sun live tour, André 3000 would say: "I call him a Magician, he plays guitar, but it almost never sounds like a guitar.” This statement can easily be applied to Mercereau’s forthcoming album Excellent Traveller, a sonic journal where everything you hear has come through the guitar — a palette of recordings made either live or in the studio — with Nate’s fingerprints all over.
The song, “Sound Within Sound,” is how Mercereau thinks of music created with other music: “The main flute and drum sample is a moment of André 3000 and Carlos Niño,” shares Mercereau. “[It’s from] when they first picked up their instruments to make sound to get levels [during a 2022 session in Hollywood], as played with my guitar later in my home studio in Tujunga.”
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