{"id":7098,"date":"2025-12-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/flea-first-solo-album\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:00:00","slug":"flea-first-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/flea-first-solo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Flea Teases First Solo Album With \u2018A Plea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/Flea-Photo-1-by-Clara-Balzary-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Clara Balzary)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has drafted some of the top players from the left-of-center jazz world for his first full-length solo album, which will be released at some point next year by Nonesuch. The lead track, \u201cA Plea,\u201d is out now, in tandem with a video directed by the artist\u2019s daughter, Clara Balzary.<\/p>\n<p>The song is instrumental for almost its first four minutes, but proceeds to tack on another four featuring the purple-haired, 63-year-old Flea\u2019s spoken word-style vocals about the bitterly divided current state of the world. <\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/king-gizzard-2026-touring-plans\/\">King Gizzard &amp; The Lizard Wizard Reboot Their Festival<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/gorillaz-house-of-kong-los-angeles\/\">Gorillaz\u2019s \u2018House Of Kong\u2019 Heads To Los Angeles<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/bonnaroo-2026-strokes-noah-kahan-skrillex\/\">Bonnaroo 2026: Strokes, Noah Kahan, Skrillex<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The musician says the lyrics tap into \u201cyearning for a place beyond, a place of love, for me to speak my mind and be myself. I\u2019m always just trying to be myself. I don\u2019t care about the act of politics. I think there is a much more transcendent place above it where there\u2019s discourse to be had that can actually help humanity, and actually help us all to live harmoniously and productively in a way that\u2019s healthy for the world. There\u2019s a place where we meet, and it\u2019s love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Plea\u201d finds Flea backed by bassist Anna Butterss, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker, drummer Deantoni Parks, longtime David Byrne percussionist Mauro Refosco, flute player Rickey Washington, trombonist Vikram Devasthali, vocalist Chris Warren and saxophonist Josh Johnson, who also produced.<\/p>\n<p>Flea\u2019s only prior solo release was the 2012 EP <em>Helen Burns<\/em>, proceeds from which benefited the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. Outside of the Chili Peppers, he\u2019s also been a member of Thom Yorke\u2019s Atoms for Peace and contributed his talents to recordings by Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Warren Zevon, Joe Strummer, Alanis Morissette and the Mars Volta, among many others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"TmyjzvQv5bA\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Clara Balzary) Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has drafted some of the top players from the left-of-center jazz world for his first full-length solo album, which will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3363,4647,6,24,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flea","category-jeff-parker","category-news","category-pushly","category-red-hot-chili-peppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}