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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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The Empyrean – a review
This review is going to be a bit less conventional, a bit more honest, a bit more personal. As a long-term casual listener of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I discovered John’s solo work earlier in this decade, with “only” three officially released albums and some demos available at that point. Given that those were the good old days of 28.8 Kbps dial-up, I stumbled upon songs’ lyrics weeks before I actually had the albums in my hands. And some of them felt like stunning poetry. Later on, it turned out that such poetry fit perfectly with the harmony of the music. Either way, here I am after more than…
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The Empyrean has been digitally released
As the most of you probably know, The Empyrean was meant to be released both physically and digitally today; but as we have learnt last week, an inevitable manifacturing error pushed the release of non-preordered items forward to 27th January, which is next Tuesday. However, the album has been released digitally today, it was announced on John’s Myspace, too; and you can get it from all major music stores, such as iTunes and Amazon.com, where it’s already at #48 in the digital downloads category, plus it’s DRM-free and you can play it on multiple devices. To remind you, this page holds a large list of places to get all versions…
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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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Two more reviews, credits and minor updates
As the updates are mostly focused on The Empyrean at the moment, that’s how it is today as well. The album page has been updated and now it’s more neatly organised. A review is coming soon, so don’t be confused by Lorem Ipsum. The rumour mill was moved to a history page and thanks to awesome treznor from the board, there is now a page from album credits. If you’re interested in helping the musicians on the board tab the album, click here. And remember, the list of all the places where you can get the album has been compiled, too. Speaking of the board, its migration has been completed.…
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Guitar World’s GUITAR HEROES! DVD
Guitar World have assembled a collection of their most memorable video tutorials by guest guitar stars and made it available to people who aren’t into hunting back issues, or they just plain want a DVD. John’s feature from 2006 is also on this DVD. John Frusciante: Rhythm Workand Soloing James Brown–style funk Single-note fun Two-note chord/melody ideas Stretching and compressing time when soloing The DVD comes with a digital booklet in PDF format, containing tabs, its running time is 90 minutes and it can be purchased at the GW online store. There is a trailer, too. For all of you who got onto the bandwagon later or did not know…
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Forum Migration
Given that there have been site access errors due to too much traffic ever since we got into 2009, the decision to move the forum to its own domain was inevitable. So, from now on, the forum will be located at YourForumIsGluedToASiteOnFire.net. All the registered forum members should have received a notification about this. If you have not received it, check your bulk/spam folders. Also, the old subdomain will be automatically redirecting you to the new domain. All the possible links pointing to wrong locations and other little issues are to be fixed soon. This should reduce traffic on the site itself and keep it up all day long. Also,…
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Lyrics, first magazine feature and Uncut review
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…
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RHCP working with Paul Oakenfold?!
According to Take40.com, dance producer Paul Oakenfold is working on his new material which will feature Red Hot Chili Peppers; which brings even more confusion to the hiatus-or-no-hiatus, breakup-or-no-breakup story. “I’m working on a track I’ve done with the Red Hot Chili Peppers (for my album)” he said. “I’m trying to find a sound for the record; I’m looking for dirtier rougher rhythms with strong songs”. You can listen to mr. Oakenfeld talk about this on the following page. Many thanks to AnÄ‘elka for the heads-up.
