New John Frusciante EP, Outsides, out 27th August! Pre-order & free bonus track
His new EP, Outsides, is available for pre-order:
North and South America
Japan (August 14th advanced release)
Europe & the rest of the world
Pre-orders should be shipping around the release date, as usual. The bonus track, Sol, is available in high resolution upon pre-order for everybody but the Japanese. And don’t worry, it’s not handled through the provider you all seemed to hate.
Cover art is available upon clicking here or on the image. Please, use it the way it is and do not reduce its quality; so there are no dozens of wrong shades like last time. The new promotional photo, as seen in the previous post, is available by clicking here–
And here’s a quote from John about it:
Outsides consists of a 10 minute guitar solo and 2 abstract “out†pieces of music. Here I use the word out in the same sense as the term was used in free jazz. It’s a modern approach to the concepts of harmony found in some late 50s/early 60s free jazz and some 20th century classical. I don’t employ any aspects of rock or pop harmony, and that was basically the approach, just to make music that is not reliant on the center that, on PBX, was provided by my songwriting style. I consider this to be working along abstract lines. Making forward moving, full sounding music without resorting to any familiar musical relationships of harmony to serve as a basis has been a goal of mine for quite a while. Both songs have my style of drums and guitar solos, but nevertheless I think of them as my version of modern classical music. They started as just orchestra, but I go wherever music takes me, and I use any instrument to express my feelings, just as I use aspects of any style. For instance, on Shelf, despite the unconventional tonality of the section, I was surprised to find that a blues guitar solo worked well. Also, both songs have Acid sections.
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