{"product_id":"untitled-jan14_10-32","title":"Flea - Honora (Indie Exclusive Red, Limited to 5,000)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003egeneration’s defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003esolo album, Honora, March 27, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. Time and space have finally allowed him to return to his first musical loves:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ejazz and playing the trumpet. The song “Traffic Lights,” co-written with\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThom Yorke and Josh Johnson, accompanies the album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eannouncement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Honora, which takes its name from a beloved family member,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFlea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealbum producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003erecord features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNick Cave. Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNate Walcott (Bright Eyes), among others, also join the band. The\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealbum comprises six original songs–including one co-written by Flea,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohnson, and Yorke–as well as interpretations of tunes by George\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaylor, and Ann Ronell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough Flea dreamed of being like his heroes Dizzy Gillespie, Miles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavis, and Clifford Brown, Flea’s path went a different direction: His\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eclose friend Hillel Slovak asked him to pick up the bass and join his\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003erock band when he was sixteen, leading Flea into a decades-long\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecareer with the hugely successful Red Hot Chili Peppers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Flea neared his sixtieth birthday, he realized if he did not pick up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe trumpet again, he probably never would. So he resolved to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003epractice every day for two years–in the midst of a stadium tour with\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRed Hot Chili Peppers, with a wife and newborn at home. At the end\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof those two years, he would make an album, regardless of where his\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eknowledge or talents ended up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUntil Honora, Flea had never been scared of making music before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe worried that the all-star band he had assembled would think he\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas “a non-playing motherf*cker, charlatan, rock poseur or fan.” But,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe says, “It turns out they were all the most genuinely supportive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003epeople, moving me deeply and daily with their generous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003espirits…Sitting in a room and playing the music with them made me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003efeel like I was on drugs. I was buzzing, tripping and floating around\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe studio. I love them, they truly gave of themselves. I bow all the way down.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First City Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147121832155,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/1609\/5451\/files\/FullSizeRender_f7f5ed9c-17be-4670-9aac-603ed870449a.jpg?v=1768404847","url":"https:\/\/firstcityrecordstore.com\/products\/untitled-jan14_10-32","provider":"First City Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}