André 3000 has released an instrumental album titled “New Blue Sun,” co-produced by Carlos Niño. This eight-track project marks André’s return to music, and it comes 17 years after OutKast’s album “Idlewild,” which was long considered their final project as a duo. The instrumental album features contributions from various talented musicians, and the track titles add a creative touch to the overall experience. André 3000 explained in a recent interview that the album’s title and one of the tracks, “Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens,” intentionally reference the Dungeon Family collective, an essential part of the OutKast story.
“I wouldn’t be able to play flute or any of this stuff. I wouldn’t have produced any of this if it wasn’t for the Dungeon,” 3 Stacks said of the sustaining importance of his earlier Dungeon Family period. “So the Dungeon was the dirt.”