John Frusciante

John Frusciante – Enclosure (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:40 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

John Frusciante hat sich in den 44 Jahren seines Lebens den größtmöglichen Luxus erkämpft. Nach Jahrzehnten, in denen er sich mit Bandkollegen abstimmen musste oder im Heroinsumpf versank, macht er heute, abgesichert von den Red Hot Chili Peppers-Tatiemen, nur noch das, wozu er Lust hat. Was der Rest der Menschheit davon hält, interessiert ihn einen feuchten Kehricht.

Dass er ohne Weiteres Hits aus dem Ärmel schütteln kann, hat er längst bewiesen. Mittlerweile liegt sein Hauptaugenmerk darauf, jede noch so düstere Ecke seines musikalischen Könnens und Nichtkönnens auszuleuchten. An diesem Lernvorgang lässt Frusciante jeden teilhaben.

“Enclosure” stellt für den Gitarristen und Soundtüftler die Erfüllung aller musikalischen Ziele dar, die er sich in den letzten fünf Jahren gestellt hat. Es führt all die losen Schnüre, die überall aus “Letur-Lefr”, “PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone” und “Outsides” heraushängen, zu einem dunkelbunten Wollknäuel zusammenzufassen.

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John Frusciante – PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:58 minutes | 738 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Record Collection Music

2012 album from the former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist. After a nearly three year hiatus, John Frusciante returns with PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, a full length album that marks the former RHCP guitarists foray into the world of electronic music. Produced, engineered and performed by Frusciante himself, PBX blends Frusciante’s well known songwriting prowess with his newfound love for electronic music.

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John Frusciante – Outsides EP (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:53 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Record Collection

2013 EP by former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. Outsides consists of a 10 minute guitar solo and 2 abstract ‘out’ pieces of music. This 10 minute song gives new life to the long ago popularly discarded form of the extended Rock guitar solo, and is also Progressive Synthpop just the same.

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John Frusciante – The Empyrean (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 662 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © EMI

After lying low for a few years after a tremendous burst of activity in 2004, John Frusciante is back with another solo album, Empyrean. It starts out with a fantastic instrumental called “Before the Beginning”: a great minor key guitar solo, replete with echoplexed drums that was surely inspired by “Maggot Brain.” After that, it’s back to the kind of introspective songs that have characterized much of his solo work. His singing is actually pretty remarkable considering his initial forays into vocals. He sounds confident and assured, even as the subject matter wrestles with dark thoughts and doubt. The songs tend to be fairly spare with guitar, electric piano, bass and drums with strings adding some lushness towards the end. Frusciante also uses the studio as an instrument à la Eno, adding cool treatments to nearly every song. Some of the songs are a bit mopey and the subject matter is often on the heavy end, but “Dark/Light” shifts gears nicely (dark to light?) where the heavy reverb and piano of “Dark” gives way to the cheesy rhythm box and falsetto vocals of “Light,” which leads into a nice bass-driven coda with choir. “Enough of Me” also features Johnny Marr on guitar, and one of them turns in a really nice Robert Fripp guitar solo. “One More of Me” is just strings and electric piano with Frusciante seemingly trying to sound like Stephin Merritt. Frusciante has done a nice job of carving an identity completely separate from his main gig, and Empyrean fits nicely with his other solo albums. ~ Sean Westergaard
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John Frusciante – PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:58 minutes | 738 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Record Collection Music

2012 album from the former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist. After a nearly three year hiatus, John Frusciante returns with PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, a full length album that marks the former RHCP guitarists foray into the world of electronic music. Produced, engineered and performed by Frusciante himself, PBX blends Frusciante’s well known songwriting prowess with his newfound love for electronic music.
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