André 3000, the unpredictable rapper, producer and songwriter best known as one-half of Outkast, is finally releasing a solo album.
Instead, “New Blue Sun,” due out Friday, “is an entirely instrumental album centered around woodwinds,” according to an announcement on Tuesday.
“I’ve been interested in winds for a long time, so it was just a natural progression for me to go into flutes,” André, 48, said in the announcement.
“I just like messing with instruments and I gravitated mostly toward wind.”The artist, born André Benjamin, last released an album with Outkast in 2006: “Idlewild,” the soundtrack to the duo’s movie musical.
“Speakerboxxx/The Love Below,” the group’s Grammy-winning double album, arrived three years earlier.
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