General/Solo
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By request: all links for The Empyrean in one place
As a large amount of people asked for this, I have compiled a list of links with websites where you can acquire The Empyrean, as LP, CD or Japanese version of the CD. If anyone else has a link to share and thinks their link could help out someone who doesn’t know where to order the album from, do share.
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Guitar World’s “Dear guitar hero” feature – ask John something sharp and funny
Just like MusicRadar, Guitar World is now giving its readers an opportunity to ask John something, in their Dear guitar hero feature. Navigate over to their submission page for instructions on what to do and make sure you read the explanation carefully; as it’s stated that only sharpest and funniest questions will be used. Good luck!
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John is doing a Q & A on MusicRadar!
Music Radar is doing a question and answer round with John Frusciante. You can ask your questions on this page. Good luck! The interview will be published as a podcast sometime later this week. For the less tech-savvy people: that means there will be a downloadable audio file. In case you’re wondering how this works: MusicRadar’s staff member clarified that they’re going to select questions to ask John, just like they did when Chad Smith was interviewed. If you want to reveal what you asked, be my guest. I do hope that everyone’s playing nice. Many thanks to Alyssia and Leni for having passed me the info so quickly! And…
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The Heart Is A Drum Machine to be premiered on February 06th
The Heart Is A Drum Machine is set to be premiered in Phoenix on 06th February 2009, with more screenings to be announced shortly. Here’s the news from Pluginmusic. You can also find more details about this documentary on its IMDB page. The Heart is a Drum Machine,†the eagerly awaited documentary that explores the complex and critical relationship between humanity and music, will premiere at Phoenix Art Museum as part of their ongoing No Festival Required series on February 6 at 8 pm followed by a cocktail party. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 12 and can be purchased online at Phxart.org or at the Museum’s Visitors Desk.…
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Another outtake from the Hillingdon Mind interview
Once again thanks to Chris Phillips, here is another exclusive outtake of the Hillingdon Mind interview with John, two part of which are already available ar hillingdonmind.org.uk. This outtake continues on the second part of the interview, but is omitted from the final version and kindly given to this website by its author. In music this idea is being express, and by the end of the song there’s every element of the music that has been doing something, is constantly at a different number than other things, and to top it off depending on where a musician puts something- in relationship to where the other musician puts something- these things…
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Another beautiful thought for the day…
…for all of you who don’t check John’s blog that often or are too lazy to do so: he’s just posted a new entry[1], revealing details on The Empyrean being a story with no action in the physical world. [1] I most sincerely apologise if this news item pings that blog entry. It’s actually considered to be polite because that way one person lets the other person know that their writing was linked, as described here. Thanks.
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Johnny Marr on The Empyrean and working with John
As posted on Johnny’s official website, JMarr.com: Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has recruited Johnny Marr to play on his latest solo album. “The Empyrean” is due out in the US on January 20. This will be Frusciante’s tenth solo album. Johnny: “I was really happy that John and I got to do something together. We first hung out in Mexico City and then I went over to his studio in L.A when I was in town on the Modest Mouse tour.” Many thanks to Gizem for the heads-up.
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Japanese version of The Empyrean to contain bonus tracks
Japanese version of The Empyrean will be released on 14th January 2009 through Rush Production Music and there will be two bonus tracks on it. Before The Beginning Song To The Siren Unreachable God Dark/Light Heaven Enough Of Me Central One More Of Me After The Ending Today – (bonus track for Japan) Ah Yom – (bonus track for Japan) To go to Rush Production website, click here. The page on John on that website is here and the Japanese edition of the album will be available at this link. Many thanks to amazing Noriko for this news! EDIT: A rather strange typo fixed, many thanks to Chris.
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The Empyrean cover image
This is the Empyrean cover image, reportedly designed by the photographer Sarah Sitkin. Click on the image to view it in a bigger size. UPDATE, 16th November, 14:00 CET: – There’s a new post on John’s official site containing a high-resolution image of the cover. [1] – There’s a discussion going on regarding this image on the Invisible Movement BBS, you can follow it in its own thread. [1] I apologise for having written posting and not post at some point on Friday and put it amongst quotation marks. That was not meant to be rude or cynical.
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Sonus Quartet and Double G’s impressions on working with John.
This is what Sonus Quartet wrote in their blog, right after their recording sessions for The Empyrean in October 2007. (thanks to Anitka who dug it out of the www!) We just had an inspiring and fulfilling session for Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, putting some string love on his upcoming solo album. He is once again collaborating with longtime musical partner Josh Klinghoffer, who originally introduced us to John at the beginning of the year while we were opening for the Chili Peppers with Gnarls Barkley and it’s a project we’ve been looking forward to ever since. Neel and Vanessa both wrote quartet arrangements for it, as well as…
