John Frusciante Foregrow EP Vinyl LP Record Store Day RSD red hot chili peppers

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Howdy and welcome to my store! Foregrow is the seventh EP release by American musician John Frusciante (Including the free 4-Track Guitar Music release on Bandcamp in November 2015). It will be released for Record Store Day on April 16, 2016 by Acid Test (Absurd Recordings). The EP is a compilation put together by Acid Test records gathering four of John's recordings during his initial songwriting period with his more experimental, electronic music which directly followed his work for the Trickfinger record. These tracks were also conceived around the same time of his recordings with Speed Dealer Moms, and even feature a modular synthesizer developed for John by his bandmate Chris McDonald. His free download album Renoise Tracks 2009-2011 available on his Soundcloud/Bandcamp pages was recorded during this time period as well.

The title track was recorded for RZA's film The Man with the Iron Fists and was included in the film, though did not appear on the soundtrack. Describing the time surrounding the recordings, John writes, "Some of the programming and production techniques were inspired by people like Venetian Snares, AFX, Squarepusher, Gescom, DMX Crew, The Railway Raver, Ceephax Acid Crew, Luke Vibert, and Autechre. Martin Hannett’s production of Joy Division, and things like Depeche Mode, Heaven 17s first record, New Order, and early Human League, were also influential on this stuff. But musically, it is my approach to synthesis, my sense of melody, and my sense of rhythm, which give this music its style, whatever one wishes to call it." John also mentions Yes and Genesis as influence regarding having longer songs with entirely different sections pieced together.

Track listing: 1."Foregrow" 2."Expre'act" 3."Lowth Forgue" 4."Unf"

John Anthony Frusciante (born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock/funk band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded five studio albums. Frusciante has an active solo career, having released ten albums under his own name, as well as two with now-Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally, as Ataxia. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and electronica. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Frusciante emphasizes melody and emotion in his guitar playing, and favors vintage guitars and analog recording techniques.

Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at eighteen, first appearing on the band's 1989 album Mother's Milk. The group's 1991 follow-up album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, was a breakthrough success. However, he was overwhelmed by the band's new popularity and quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a long period of drug and heroin addiction, during which he released his first recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and then Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he successfully completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which resulted in the critically acclaimed 1999 album Californication. The album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was compiled in 2001, followed by the 2002 release of By the Way. On a creative spree, Frusciante released six solo albums in 2004; each album exploring different recording techniques and genres. These albums range from 60's esque rock to Cat Stevens like soft acoustics. In 2006, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released Stadium Arcadium. Afterwards in 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean and again parted ways with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, stating to his fans he wanted to remain true to the artist within him and continue exploring other works in his life. Frusciante has produced and/or recorded with the Wu-Tang Clan, The Mars Volta, George Clinton, and others. Frusciante has received critical recognition for his guitar playing, ranking eighteenth on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2003. and he was voted the best guitarist of the last 30 years in a 2010 BBC poll called "The Axe Factor".

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