Jon Batiste at the TIME100 Gala held at Frederick P. Rose Hall on April 26, 2023 in New York City. Nina Westervelt
Just 2 years after launching his Grammy-winning cd We Are, cross-genre pundit Jon Batiste is getting ready to release his following document upon the globe. On Wednesday, (June 28), the multi-hyphenate required to Twitter to expose that his brand-new workshop cd, labelled World Music Radio, is slated for an Aug. 18 launch — as well as will certainly include cooperations with Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, Kenny G as well as even more.
“World Music Radio is a concept album that takes place in the interstellar regions of the universe,” Batiste created on Twitter. “The listener is led through the album by an interstellar traveling griot named Billy Bob Bo Bob, who takes you sonically all around the world at the speed of light.”
Alongside his news of the cd’s title as well as launch day, Batiste likewise debuted the main visualizer for the collection’s lead solitary, “Calling Your Name.” “I created this album with a feeling of liberation in my life and a renewed sense of exploration of my personhood, my craft and of the world around me unlike anything I had ever felt before,” mused Batiste.
In enhancement to Del Rey, Lil Wayne, as well as Kenny G, the cd will certainly likewise include cooperations with Jon Bellion, Fireboy DML, J.I.D., NewPants as well as a lot more. World Music Radio — which is exec created by Batiste, Bellion as well as Ryan Lynn — is absolutely a star-studded event. According to journalism launch, Batiste’s objective for the brand-new cd is to discover the suggestion that all songs is “world music,” as well as build a global, cross-cultural area via various sort of music from various areas worldwide.
Two years back, Batiste made background as the initial Black musician to win the Grammy for Album of the Year in 14 years when he thrived in the classification for his genre-spanning We Are. He won 4 various other honors that night, including a handful of prizes to a mantle that currently flaunts an Academy Award for Best Original Score many thanks to his deal with 2020’s Soul together with Trent Reznor as well as Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails.
Batiste has actually landed 2 titles on the Billboard 200: 2014’s Social Music (No. 134, as Jon Batiste & Stay Human) as well as 2021’s We Are (No. 25).
See his World Music Radio news as well as pay attention to “Calling Your Name” listed below.
World Music Radio is an idea cd that happens in the interstellar areas of deep space. The audience is led via the cd by an interstellar taking a trip griot called Billy Bob Bo Bob, that takes you sonically around the globe at the rate of light. pic.twitter.com/mB7Z57dCm5
— jon batiste (@JonBatiste) June 28, 2023
