Kategória: John Frusciante

A The Empyrean japánban 2009 január 14.én fog megjelenni, és lesz rajta két bónusz szám, ami a többi verzión nem szerepel:

1. Before The Beginning
2. Song To The Siren
3. Unreachable
4. God
5. Dark/Light
6. Heaven
7. Enough Of Me
8. Central
9. One More Of Me
10. After The Ending
11. Today – (bonus track for Japan)
12. Ah Tom – (bonus track for Japan)

Emellett Johnny Marr (aki szerepelni fog az albumon) az oldalán írt pár szót a közös munkáról:

Johnny: „I was really happy that John and I got to do something together. We first hung out in Mexico City and then I went over to his studio in L.A when I was in town on the Modest Mouse tour.”

Erre a hétre ígérte a Hillingdon Mind az új John interjút, de decemberig várni kell rá, viszont itt van belőle egy szép nagy részlet:

Can you describe the essence of your new album?
(Long pause and a groan from John)
John Frusciante: „Ah man. I guess… yeah I don’t know if I can answer that. I find myself thinking of the places it was coming from or the things that tied it together. I feel like I’d be doing them a disservice to try to put them into a paragraph or something. I’m sorry about that. I never felt so much like I’d put myself in a state where the record that insisted on being made. It was almost more like the record made me- like the record as a sort of a… I guess you could say like a level of existence that isn’t expressed through matter or through people in their activities, that the level of existence that is always there and I had put myself in the right place for that level of existence to express itself through me- and that is just what occurred.
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Íme a teljes interjú a www.thehorsechronicles.org-ról:

Tanya Vece: Want to tell everyone what you are up to?
John Frusciante: You want me to spill the beans on the next Peppers project. No.
TV: Want to tell everyone how you have been?
JF: The same. More into art and painting as of yesterday.
TV: The last book you read?
JF: My Royal Past.
TV: Three artists on my Myspace you have listened to this past month:
JF: Easy. The Coral, David Bowie, Morrisey.
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Ma a hivatalos Red Hot Chili Peppers oldalon John írt a rajongóknak az új albumról (megjelenés hivatalosan is 2009.01.20), és közzétette az album számainak címét is.
A feldolgozás pedig a Song To The Siren lesz, mely egy Tim Buckley szám.

The Empyrean:
1. Before The Beginning
2. Song To The Siren
3. Unreachable
4. God
5. Dark/Light
6. Heaven
7. Enough Of Me
8. Central
9. One More Of Me
10. After The Ending

Az album egy koncept album lesz, mind zeneileg, mind szövegvilágában. Az albumon szerepel John, Flea, a Sonus Quartet, Johnny Mar.

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