US EditionRed Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Flea Announces Debut Solo Album, Drops Jazzy Love (Is) Supreme ‘A Plea’ Single: Listen
Flea’s nearly eight-minute jazz single ‘A Plea’ calls for peace and love amid global divisiveness, featuring eight guest musicians and directed by his daughter Clara Balzary.
- On Dec. 2, Flea released the nearly eight-minute single `A Plea`, the first taste of his untitled debut full-length solo album due next year on Nonesuch Records.
- Responding to current divisiveness, Flea says the lyrics reflect this and he yearns for `a transcendent place above it where there’s discourse to be had that can actually help humanity`, delivering a plea to `live for peace, live for love`.
- Playing both electric bass and trumpet, Flea wrote and performed the song with Gil Scott-Heron-like spoken-word vocals, recording it alongside eight musicians including Anna Butterss, Jeff Parker, and Deantoni Parks.
- Dropping a high-energy visual, Flea released the `A Plea` video directed by Clara Balzary, featuring modern-dance moves and playful `Flea-chi` antics matching the song’s jazz groove.
- Seen as a stylistic pivot, the release marks a striking André 3000-esque move from Red Hot Chili Peppers work, with Flea’s decades-long collaborators boosting appeal to rock and modern-jazz audiences.
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Flea has just released the first preview of his new album. Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player returns to his origins as a jazz musician with an album that will premiere in 2026 and whose first single is "A Plea", an instrumental song of almost eight minutes duration where towards the end we can [...] See more news in Indie Hoy.
Flea Announces New Solo Album, Shares New Song ‘A Plea’
Flea has announced a new solo album that will be released next year on Nonesuch Records. As yet untitled, it finds the Red Hot Chili Pepper bassist returning to his first instrument, the trumpet, and it’s being previewed today by ‘A Plea’, which almost sounds like it could have made Geordie Greep’s own solo debut. Check it out via the music video, directed by Flea’s daughter Clara Balzary and featuring choreography by Sadie Wilking, below. ‘A Pl…
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