The Empyrean tracklisting and a little poll for you all - John Frusciante fansite

18 hours after it was posted on the internet for the first time that it’s real (Haven’t you read that already? Go read!); John’s 10th solo album, is creating a big bang of its own around the world wide web streams of music. A couple of minutes ago, Empyrean tracklisting was posted on the RHCP.com.

Before The Beginning
Song To The Siren
Unreachable
God
Dark/Light
Heaven
Enough Of Me
Central
One More Of Me
After The Ending

…alongside this message from the protagonist (protagonists?) of the story himself (themselves?).

Friends and fans,
The Empyrean is my new record and will be released worldwide via Record Collection on January 20th 2009. It was recorded on and off between December 2006 and March 2008. It is a concept record that tells a single story both musically and lyrically. The story takes place within one person, and there are two characters. It contains a version of Tim Buckley’s, ‘Song To The Siren’ and the rest of the songs are written by me. My friend Josh plays on it, as does Flea. It also features Sonus Quartet, Johnny Marr and The New Dimension Singers. I’m really happy with it and I’ve listened to it a lot for the psychedelic experience it provides. It should be played as loud as possible and it is suited to dark living rooms late at night.
– John Frusciante, November 3rd, 2008

And, a question for you.

Concept albums...do they make you even more excited?