Nate Mercereau

“I call him a magician,” André 3000 would say from the stage every night of the New Blue Sun live tour. “He plays guitar, but it almost never sounds like a guitar...” referring to Nate Mercereau's travel rig of guitar, guitar synth, guitar sampler, pedalboard, laptop, aerophones, and percussion.

Nate is also set up to sample what is happening around him — including himself — and then play it with the guitar at any moment. “Playing life.”

Truly a multi-instrumentalist, as well as a producer, songwriter, and composer across multiple genres and sonic worlds, Mercereau’s traditional and nontraditional approaches speak to the infinite energetic, spiritual, and creative potentials that Nate hears and lives.

Considering Nate's vast array of collaborators and projects over the years—from André 3000, The Weeknd, Jay-Z, Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, Sheila E., Ledisi, Goapele, Jennifer Hudson, Raphael Saadiq, Ricky Reed, Lizzo, No I.D., John Legend, Jon Batiste, and The Golden Gate Bridge, to his diverse solo releases like Joy Techniques, SUNDAYS, Excellent Traveler (Third Man Records), and collaborative albums with Carlos Niño and Josh Johnson (Blue Note Records), Sam Gendel, Idris Ackamoor, and Surya Botofasina — the question arises: what threads tie it all together? What thoughts, what feelings...?

To that, Nate answers:

“Exploration, freedom, creativity, discovery, openness, searching, emotional depths, immersive experience, intensity, curiosity, listening, infinite possibility... The threads that tie it all together come from me being a person living a life, and I’m moving through and in and around this life in every way I find resonant—in the process of exploration itself, and all that comes with it.

There is always a sense of discovery, going further into imagination and possible realities. ‘Going there’ and reporting back.

The way it is presented and shared throughout my life is always different, because of course it is—I am a person who is growing and changing, so my expressions and interests will be changing as I find new ways to engage with it.” —Nate

This upcoming run will mark Nate Mercereau’s very first Europe and UK tour as a solo artist—an exciting step in sharing his expansive, exploratory sound with new audiences across the continent.

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Photo: Joshua Whiteman