Lyrics, first magazine feature and Uncut review - John Frusciante fansite

This is an improvised update, what’s most important at the moment, as other things can wait, given the server load and the site owner’s work commitments. More to come, as soon as possible.

First of all, a reader who’d like to remain anonymous has submitted scans of the whole February 2009 Guitar Magazine Japan feature. Please, once again, if you happen to live in Japan or have a way of getting this magazine, buy it. Support the people who are working hard on creating magazines. And, needless to say, help with translation would be great, so if any of the Japanese or Japanese-speaking Invisible Movement readers would like to give it a go, contact me.

Thanks to Joanne, a super-nice person amongst those who already got their pre-ordered copy of The Empyrean, all the lyrics pages for the album have been completed. You can access them from the album page itself or from this list:

A gentle reminder: lyrics to Today and Ah Yom have been around for quite a while. Forum members have already created threads for each of the songs, and, as it was stated last week, our own experiences of the album will probably be miles away from the original story, but might end up being interesting, too. So, everyone’s welcome to join the discussions. Just please be nice. And don’t forget to buy the album if you don’t have it yet, especially if you’ve “borrowed” it. There’s no way in heck you’ll get the same sound quality from a real album and a bunch of mp3s.

Many thanks to Tom for having dug out the first review of the album, from the Uncut magazine. I assume everyone who actually knows what RHCP demos sound like and who’s had a chance to listen to 44-second previews or who eventually got the album by now will find this review a bit funny. Also, do note how it’s the least eccentric album.

Chili Pepper’s least eccentric solo album
Frusciante has now recorded twice as many solo albums as he has Red Hot Chili Peppers LPs, projects that have generally been widly experimental. Unusually for him, his 10th album (featuring Johnny Marr and old muckers Flea and Josh Klinghoffer) sounds like a collection of Chili Peppers demos: one can easily imagine Anthony Kiedis singing the spooky, piano-led ballad “Dark/Light”, likewise “Unreachable”, “God” and “Central” (all which tone down the usual funk-rock bluster with an electric piano). More interesting is his version of the “Song To The Siren” and the baritone-voiced, string drenched spookfest that is “One More Of Me”.

3 out of 5 stars
– John Lewis, Uncut, Take 141, February 2009

Please follow and like us: