{"product_id":"flea-honora-vinyl-new","title":"Flea - Honora Vinyl New","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his\u003cbr\u003e\ngeneration’s defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length\u003cbr\u003e\nsolo album, Honora, March 27, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. Time and space have finally allowed him to return to his first musical loves:\u003cbr\u003e\njazz and playing the trumpet. The song “Traffic Lights,” co-written with\u003cbr\u003e\nThom Yorke and Josh Johnson, accompanies the album\u003cbr\u003e\nannouncement.\u003cbr\u003e\nFor Honora, which takes its name from a beloved family member,\u003cbr\u003e\nFlea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and\u003cbr\u003e\nbass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries:\u003cbr\u003e\nalbum producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff\u003cbr\u003e\nParker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The\u003cbr\u003e\nrecord features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and\u003cbr\u003e\nNick Cave. Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) and\u003cbr\u003e\nNate Walcott (Bright Eyes), among others, also join the band. The\u003cbr\u003e\nalbum comprises six original songs–including one co-written by Flea,\u003cbr\u003e\nJohnson, and Yorke–as well as interpretations of tunes by George\u003cbr\u003e\nClinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea\u003cbr\u003e\nTaylor, and Ann Ronell.\u003cbr\u003e\nThough Flea dreamed of being like his heroes Dizzy Gillespie, Miles\u003cbr\u003e\nDavis, and Clifford Brown, Flea’s path went a different direction: His\u003cbr\u003e\nclose friend Hillel Slovak asked him to pick up the bass and join his\u003cbr\u003e\nrock band when he was sixteen, leading Flea into a decades-long\u003cbr\u003e\ncareer with the hugely successful Red Hot Chili Peppers.\u003cbr\u003e\nAs Flea neared his sixtieth birthday, he realized if he did not pick up\u003cbr\u003e\nthe trumpet again, he probably never would. So he resolved to\u003cbr\u003e\npractice every day for two years–in the midst of a stadium tour with\u003cbr\u003e\nRed Hot Chili Peppers, with a wife and newborn at home. At the end\u003cbr\u003e\nof those two years, he would make an album, regardless of where his\u003cbr\u003e\nknowledge or talents ended up.\u003cbr\u003e\nUntil Honora, Flea had never been scared of making music before.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe worried that the all-star band he had assembled would think he\u003cbr\u003e\nwas “a non-playing motherf*cker, charlatan, rock poseur or fan.” But,\u003cbr\u003e\nhe says, “It turns out they were all the most genuinely supportive\u003cbr\u003e\npeople, moving me deeply and daily with their generous\u003cbr\u003e\nspirits…Sitting in a room and playing the music with them made me\u003cbr\u003e\nfeel like I was on drugs. I was buzzing, tripping and floating around\u003cbr\u003e\nthe studio. I love them, they truly gave of themselves. I bow all the way down.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eTrack List:\u003cbr\u003e\nGolden Wingship\u003cbr\u003e\nA Plea\u003cbr\u003e\nTraffic Lights feat. Thom Yorke\u003cbr\u003e\nFrailed\u003cbr\u003e\nMorning Cry\u003cbr\u003e\nMaggot Brain\u003cbr\u003e\nWichita Lineman feat. Nick Cave\u003cbr\u003e\nThinkin Bout You\u003cbr\u003e\nWillow Weep for Me\u003cbr\u003e\nFree As I Want to Be\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43284537901115,"sku":"VYN N075597893588 ShippingM","price":54.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0352\/8805\/5867\/files\/Flea-Honora-_Indie-Exclusive_-Colored-Vinyl_-Red-689698948.jpg?v=1773592828","url":"https:\/\/icemanvideogames.com\/products\/flea-honora-vinyl-new","provider":"Iceman Video Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}