| January 06, 2009 | john frusciante, the empyrean |
it is hard to believe, but four years have passed since john frusciante's last* solo record curtains was released. he is soon to release his latest album, entitled the empyrean, on january 20th Very cool that there is a Tim Buckley cover. Really looking forward to this album. Returning contributing musicians include Flea and Josh Klinghoffer, while ex-smiths guitarist Johnny Marr(!?) plays on two tracks Enjoy this description, it is classical frusciante: The Empyrean is my new record and will be released worldwide via Record Collection on January 20th 2009. It was recorded on and off between December 2006 and March 2008. It is a concept record that tells a single story both musically and lyrically. The story takes place within one person, and there are two characters. It contains a version of Tim Buckley’s, ‘Song To The Siren’ and the rest of the songs are written by me. My friend Josh plays on it, as does Flea. It also features Sonus Quartet, Johnny Marr and The New Dimension Singers. I’m really happy with it and I’ve listened to it a lot for the psychedelic experience it provides. It should be played as loud as possible and it is suited to dark living rooms late at night. - John Frusciante, November 3rd, 2008 The Empyrean is a story that has no action in the physical world. It all takes place in one persons mind throughout his life. The only other character is someone who does not live in the physical world but is inside it, in the sense that he exists in peoples minds. The mind is the only place that anything can be truly said to exist. The outside world is only known to us as it appears within us by the testament of our senses. The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand. Seeing our ideas take form is like being able to see the sun come into being. We have no equivelent to the purity of that in our account of the outside world. The outer world appears to each of us as one thing and it is always also a multitude of others. Inside to outside and outside to inside are neverending. Trying and giving up are a form of breathing. - John Track listing: Further reading: *discounting the ataxia ii side project |
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| January 06, 2009 | 2009 is set to be musically awesome!! |
just wikipedia-ing and found that amongst artists releasing albums this year are four of my favorites: john frusciante - the empyrean - january 20th |
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| January 03, 2009 | two movie ratings |
children of men (2006) - 9/10 superb |
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| January 02, 2009 | three more tracks from my album |
three more mixed songs from my album. "brilliant when rare" is the song i like the most so far.
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| December 31, 2008 | My top ten albums of 2008 |
My favorite albums of 2008
My 2007 picks |
top albums of 2008 |