On new releases….
Thanks to morkmango from Ramparts forum for this:) It’s from Amplifier magazine which I haven’t got my hands on yet.
In addition to The Will to Death, AW, DC EP and Inside of Emptiness, Frusciante’s release schedule includes a collaboration with Klinghoffer (under both of their names) and, finally, an acoustic solo piece, all of which will street before year’s end. Each of the projects was recorded in various professional studios, except for the acoustic album, which Frusciante crafted in his home studio on an ancient piece of equipment.
“It was recorded on this Ampex 8-track machine from like 1970, which is the same machine that King Crimson recorded In The Court of The Crimson King on,” says Frusciante. “It’s the best sounding tape machine I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s no mistake that all those great recordings from 1969 and 1970 sound as great as they do. 8 track is just a great format.”
After DC EP, Frusciante’s solo electric album, Inside of Emptiness, will be the next release. Frusciante describes it as noisy work, driven by distortion and static in the higer frequencies, with an even more extreme sonic posture than the dense atmosphere of the Ataxia album.
“For the Will to Death, the Velvet Underground album I was listening to a lot was the third one, which is very mellow and has a lot of soft power to it,” says Frusciante. “For inside of Emptiness, the Velvet Underground album I was listening to a lot was White Light/ White Heat, which is full of lots of distortion; and you can hear that in the sound of this album. I’m most proud of this one and the acoustic one. If somebody was only going to buy one of the albums, I would probably suggest either Inside of Emptinesss or the acoustic one.”Although Frusciante initially considered releasing these last two albums of the long recording process, Inside Of Emptiness and the acoustic project, as the first in the series because of his obvious pride in their results, he has since decided to slate them in the order of their original creation:The Will To Death, Automatic Writing, DC EP, the Frusciante/ Klinghoffer collaboration, and what is currently being called ‘The May Album’, i.e., the acoustic solo project.
