John Frusciante mentioned his upcoming solo album was the results of a have to reset after engaged on two new Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers information.
The band launched Limitless Love and Return of the Dream Canteen throughout 2022, leaving the guitarist eager for a distinct artistic method.
“After a 12 months and a half writing and recording rock music, I wanted to clear my head,” Frusciante wrote on Bandcamp. “I listened to and made music the place issues typically occur steadily reasonably than abruptly. I’d arrange patches… listening to one sound morph into others, making adjustments to a patch solely after having listened for fairly some time, steadily including components, and at last manipulating the sounds on the fly.”
Frusciante additional emphasised how his membership within the Chili Peppers influenced the solo challenge. “I had beforehand spent 12 years programming and engineering my very own music, after which spent a 12 months and a half making music the place my position was mainly to jot down songs and play guitar,” he defined. “When the band’s recording section was accomplished, I wanted to return to my adopted language. I had carried out sufficient with chords, rhythms, notes, outlined sections, sharp transitions, and many others.. What I wanted was to create music from the bottom up with nothing however sound, and have that music replicate ‘being’ reasonably than ‘doing.’ It was a therapeutic means of re-balancing myself, earlier than and through my band’s mixing course of.”
The result’s a brand new album which is able to arrive in two completely different variations. The primary, titled .I: (pronounced “one”), shall be launched on vinyl, whereas :II. (pronounced “two”) shall be obtainable digitally. The vinyl model is shorter as a result of “a number of the tracks have sounds that may not be pressed on vinyl.”
Whereas Frusciante’s Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers expertise ignited the brand new solo effort, the guitarist additionally took a web page from a few of his favourite rock icons.
“I used to be additionally impressed by my psychological picture of John Lennon’s tape and mellotron experiments he made at dwelling throughout his time within the Beatles,” Frusciante famous, “in addition to occasions like the primary minute of Bowie’s Station to Station, ‘…And the Gods Made Love’ by Jimi Hendrix, the synths within the tune ‘Mass Manufacturing’ by Iggy Pop, and the overall thought of Eno’s preliminary idea of ambient music.”
“This music seeks to simply exist, and isn’t trying to govern or seize the listener in any means,” Frusciante continued, explaining his new materials. “I consider it really works nicely if one listens loud and focuses on it, but additionally works nicely at mushy volumes and within the background. It may possibly compete with silence on silence’s personal phrases, and it may additionally fortunately wipe silence out.”
.I: and :II. shall be launched on Feb. 3 through Acid Check Data. In the meantime, the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers will tour the world between January and June.
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