Nate Mercereau has announced a new album, Excellent Traveler. The multi-instrumentalist enlists a tour-de-force of players for his solo follow-up to 2021’s Sundays, with collaborators including André 3000 and Carlos Niño, as well as samples of his studio sessions with Shabaka Hutchings, Kamasi Washington, Laraaji, and many more. Ahead of the album’s release on October 11 via Third Man, listen to “Sound Within Sound” below.
In a press release, Mercereau said of the song and LP:
Other guests on the record include Surya Botofasina, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, Idris Ackamoor, Cavana Lee, V.C.R, Anaiah Rasheed Muhammad, Dwight Trible, Andres Renteria, and Aaron Shaw.
Excellent Traveller:
01 For the Highest Quality Listener Testing the Limits
02 Sound Within Sound
03 Surfing, in Manhattan
04 Excellent Traveler Theme
05 Infinite Palaces of Possibility / Horse [ft. André 3000 and Carlos Niño]
06 Continually Cresting
07 I Am in the Fire Place
08 Worlds Beyond (Into It)
09 Worlds Upon Worlds
10 Watershed, in Oakland
11 Ears as Eyes (Benton, Tujunga, Mayer)
12 Immersive Realization Landscape
13 From One Place to Another
14 Juniper’s Theme
15 DJinn’
16 Sky Spine Curving Into the Horizon
17 Awayness