General/Solo
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The Empyrean tracklisting and a little poll for you all
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.…
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Downtime down to server upgrades. Don’t panic.
Well, guys, I slept all day on Wednesday after a tension-filled Tuesday when the whole world was obsessed with USA elections (congrats to Obama, btw…) and when we had a pretty hard magazine-ad-creating test at the academy I attend. Some people did text me that the site was down, but not even the smell of delicious supper and calls from my co-workers who needed help could wake me up; so I had no idea what was going on and I apologise. However, when I woke up, there was an email from the nice support people working at the hosting company, saying that there’s a major server upgrade going on and…
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Me And My Friends – out today!
So, the day has come. The critically acclaimed photography book by Tony Wolliscroft is finally out. Me And My Friends is seeing the light of the day today in UK, and it’s available for purchase all around the world. It can be ordered directly from its website or On Amazon. Until you get around to doing that, here’s one more sneak preview. Click on the photo to see the whole slideshow. To view photos from the above slideshow in even bigger size, go to FlickR, Facebook and Myspace pages, too.
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The Empyrean, NOT The Imperium – very important correction
and, I believe, the ring with clearest flame was that which lay least far from the pure spark because it shares most deeply that point’s truth. I can guess that this one will be a huge PITA for everyone who’s already put the news on their websites, but it’s just another proof that human ear or, in this particular case three pairs of ears, could be wrong. The two words are very much alike when pronounced, especially if one’s accent is specific or if one’s spoken words often aren’t that easy to understand. The correct spelling for the new album’s name is The Empyrean rather than The Imperium. Many thanks…
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Invisible-Movement.net v.6.0: TenTwenty
So, the time has come, 09:09 on 09.09. Looking at how Invisible Movement started off four years ago before it was even public; I thought of four possible dates to launch the sixth version of the site. This day won the poll in my mind as the other three days – 29th November, 08th March and 12th October – are too far away from now and, at this pace, none of them meets one of the four ideas behind the site layout. So, yup, even though a part of me wanted to delay this launch for some other day, the new Invisible Movement layout is seeing the light of the…
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Nice video of the 05th September Troubadour improv and its audio rip
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXHdwEJqW9Y] This beautiful video can originally be found on MUSICALA, its author is MoJOE and if you would like to read a review of the improvisation and two performances before it, click the above link. Also, Adam aka surfsunadam from the Invisible Movement BBS was incredibly cool to rip audio from this file and you can download it by right-clicking here and picking save target as / save link as. It was downloaded times so far.
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RHCP to appear in a Bob Forrest documentary
Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a bunch of others, are set to appear in a documentary on Bob Forrest, set for a release in 2009. The documentary is currently being produced, the director is Keirda Bahruth and it will supposedly see the light of the day next year. The name of the documentary is Unsung: Bob and the Monster. You can check for details about this documentary on its IMDB page, but there isn’t that much on it yet. Many thanks to Maggie for this news.
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John to appear in a documentary
John Frusciante is among the professional, amateur and demo musicians who are set to appear in just-finished documentary produded by ZU33 and titled The Heart Is A Drum Machine. He’ll be there alongside George Clinton, Maynard James Keenan of Tool, Jimmy Tamborello of The Postal Service, Juliette Lewis of Juliette and the Licks, Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan, Elijah Wood, Los Lobos, Lewis, X’s John Doe, Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss and many others. The film was directed by Christopher Pomerenke, produced by Ryan Page and Hans Fjellestad. It explores music’s role in shaping human history, the profound connection people have had to music throughout human history, how it has shaped our…
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Server migration / forum downtime / competition status
This is a maintenance news bit, but it contains information about the competition and some good news, so please, do read it. I assume many people were wondering where the forum went today/yesterday. Well…since many people complained about the infamous “IPS Error. Can’t connect to the database” message and the problem was simply not intending to hit the road and come back no more no more no more no mor-o; I contacted the tech support of the lovely hosting company and they recommended migrating both the site and forum databases to a faster-performing database server. The site transition lasted about ten minutes overall, so I assume the most of you…
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A video from George Clinton’s party
Here is an Associated Press video from George Clinton’s party, where John is being interviewed as well. [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkdsrVGtWLk] *Thanks to ladybird2810 for the heads-up.
