Elsewhere on the web
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More photos from The Empyrean cover session (off-site link)
If you click on the preview image or here, you’ll be taken to Sarah Sitkin’s Bodies series on Dripbook.com. There are two new underwater angel photo of John, from the same photo session as the one shown earlier. The whole album is interesting as well…just watch out for full frontal male nudity on some models, if that’s not your piece of cake.
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A listener’s take at creating a video for Central + Saturday question #1
Andreas Yngvesson/BaconDude has created a music video for Central. It’s pretty interesting and unusual, so have a look! [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4YutWM0n0Y] And, why not, since Saturdays are so quiet, let’s start a new tradition: a random question asked on Saturday, for you all to answer. This week’s (obvious) question: Would you create a video for any of these ten (twelve) songs yourself and if you would, what song would it be and how would it look like? Reply in comments.
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John and Josh on The Watt from Pedro show!
John and Josh are Mike Watt’s guests on the newest episode of his podcast, The Wat from Pedro show, which was aired on 25th January. In the massive three-hour episode of the show, which you can download from the podcast website in two different formats, you can witness brother Matt’s spin cycle w/John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer + Watt collaborating (yes, it’s a jam); but also hear four songs off John’s new album: Before The Beginning, Dark/Light, God, Enough Of Me; as well as a bunch of tunes from Watt and his guests’ collections. Kudos to Nick for this awesome news! UPDATE: right-click and pick save as/save link as to download…
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Heads-up on new post on John’s blog: Imrael
John has made a lengthy new blog post titled Imrael (it would be nice to know what that is, in fact, it would be great ^_^); some 20-ish minutes ago. I think it’s very uplifting and a good way to make one smile on an exhausting hump day. And to make one warm. Both literally and otherwise.
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The good, the bad, the reviews
The good: The simple poem mentioned two weeks ago and posted on John’s blog on 05th January and then deleted from the entry it was a part of after two days; has returned in a post of its own. And there are two new “lines” in it. The bad: Why would there be anything bad? Everything is better than ever. The reviews: As promised a couple of days ago, here is one more review digest. This is from the nice people over there at Indie Paws. Make sure you read the whole thing here as I’m posting only an excerpt. You could call The Empyrean a prog rock album in…
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The Empyrean concept partly revealed on John’s blog
John has posted a lengthy clarification of the basic concept behind The Empyrean on his blog. The story is apparently being edited and put together more neatly as I’m posting this; so if the following link does not work, it will probably be accessible through his blog’s main index page.
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Cool features on JF over at Chimpomatic and Indie Paws
The folks over there at Chimpomatic have written a fairly nice review of The Empyrean: As a complete record, this is certainly a more focused release than Frusciante’s six-albums-in-six-months period, as while each of those records yielded several gems, there was a certain sense of in-cohesiveness, which is clearly absent here. While Frusciante describes The Empyrean as a “concept album”, he acknowledges that it may not come accross as narrative in that sense, but there is certainly a running theme within the songs, which all hold the same mood and tone – echoing feelings of loss, death and spirituality. The result is an outstanding, thoroughly involving and innovative album –…
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A new beautiful photograph by Sarah Sitkin
Sarah Sitkin, the author of the stunning cover of The Empyrean has just posted a new photograph from the same session on her FlickR photostream. As you can see, the concept is still there: wings and water and the vibe is more than breathtaking. You can see it in various sizes here. Make sure you check out the rest of Sarah’s work and read her interview on Photograview. As she said, LIFE. the experience, the ride, the idea that photography is capturing a knot on a very long string. The string being time, the knot being a clot of human experience, emotion, an epiphany found in a dream, a symposium,…
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…and there’s a blog entry, too.
John has posted a new blog entry, after a 40-ish day break and he’s talking about the possible interpretations of the meaning of The Empyrean, dismissing them all as more or less wrong, as it is incomprehensible to someone other than him, yet, in some way, every person with an open mind can find their own meaning in the albums’ lyrics. This excerpt is interesting, in particular: While I could explain the story as I see it,that would detract from the potential multifarious meanings that will come about from people applying their own sense of feeling from their life experience, much as they always do. So, to read some lyrics…
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The MusicRadar podcast is up and it’s also transcribed.
MusicRadar‘s three-part interview with John Frusciante regarding recording of The Empyrean, the future of Red Hot Chili Peppers and responses to what site visitors had asked is up. If any of your questions got answered, shout. ^_^ I was pleasantly surprised that mine got picked and answered, as it was a bit out of the way and the only one not related to music. So…anyone else? There’s got to be five more people… According to Music Radar’s introduction and the very end of the interview; more confusion was brought into the already confusing story about the future of the world’s biggest rock band at the moment. And, according to what…
