Whilst some tracks are totally free in structure and direction, others follow structures ,take 'Mascara', it has three distinct sections. He emphasizes certain words and raises his voice when he wants. It shows his complete abandonment of song writing conventions opting instead to follow a sort of stream of consciousness, the songs follow the intensity he's feeling, he doesn't need to move from verse to chorus and then back to verse, he takes the songs where ever he wants. Yes the quality is low, but John has so many original ideas in this album. Niandra Lades -It feels raw and original. I went pretty in depth so I just did my top three I feel like we wouldn't have missed much if this album never existed. I don't like the depressing mood this one gets me in. A couple of good tracks though clearly recorded when he was less fucked up. Most of the songs are downright unlistenable to me. Guess this is what heroin hell sounds like. Smile From the Streets You Hold - Yeah, I just can't deal with this one. Just as something sounds promising, everything suddenly changes and that just gets annoying and heavy after a while. Too many ideas and too many weird transitions crammed into one. Niandra - Challenging, weird, unique, but just not my thing you know. Favorite: SaturationĮnclosure - Some good songs, a couple of duds. To Record Water - Was a bit weird and out there at first, but as I became familiar with all of John's solo albums, I grew to appreciate this as part of the evolution of his sound. Took me a bit of time to fully appreciate. Inside of Emptiness - Memorable riffs and good songs. The Will To Death - Beautiful deep songs. The Empyrean - An almost surreal experience, impressive every time. Favorite: Every Person.Ĭurtains - Beautiful acoustic stuff and some of John's best vocal work. But musically, it is my approach to synthesis, my sense of melody, and my sense of rhythm, which give this music its style, whatever one wishes to call it." John also mentions Yes and Genesis as influence regarding having longer songs with entirely different sections pieced together.Shadows Collide With People - Absolute perfection in my eyes. Martin Hannett’s production of Joy Division, and things like Depeche Mode, Heaven 17s first record, New Order, and early Human League, were also influential on this stuff. The title track was recorded for RZA's film The Man with the Iron Fists and was included in the film, though did not appear on the soundtrack.ĭescribing the time surrounding the recordings, John writes, "Some of the programming and production techniques were inspired by people like Venetian Snares, AFX, Squarepusher, Gescom, DMX Crew, The Railway Raver, Ceephax Acid Crew, Luke Vibert, and Autechre. His free download album Renoise Tracks 2009-2011 available on his SoundCloud/ Bandcamp pages was recorded during this time period as well. These tracks were also conceived around the same time of his recordings with Speed Dealer Moms, and even feature a modular synthesizer developed for John by his bandmate Chris McDonald. The EP is a compilation put together by Acid Test records gathering four of John's recordings during his initial songwriting period with his more experimental, electronic music which directly followed his work for the Trickfinger record. It was released for Record Store Day on Apby Acid Test (Absurd Recordings). Synthpop, progressive, electronica, IDM, experimental rockįoregrow is the seventh EP release by American musician John Frusciante (Including the free 4-Track Guitar Music release on Bandcamp in November 2015).
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