We’ve all grown up to Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Most of us can mouth almost every word of frontman Anthony Kiedis‘ vocals. If you grew up in the 90’s, there’s no way you wouldn’t know who RHCP was. And who could forget those epic guitar riffs by John Frusicante, from Snow to Give It Away to Can’t Stop.
RHCP would never be the same when John Frusicante announced his decision to quit the band way back in 2009. However, there’s good news, John Frusciante has recently unveiled the first track from his electronic project called “Trickfinger”.
In 2012, Frusciante explained the backstory of his seemingly unpredictable switch in genre:
“I started being serious about following my dream to make electronic music, and to be my own engineer, five years ago. For the 10 years prior to that, I had been playing guitar along with a wide range of different types of programmed synthesizer and sample based music, emulating as best as I could, what I heard. […] I was obsessed with music where machine intelligence and human intelligence seemed to be bouncing off one another, each expanding with the incorporation of what it received from the other. In 2007 I started to learn how to program all the instruments we associate with Acid House music and some other hardware. For about 7 months I didn’t record anything. Then I started recording, playing 10 or so synced machines through a small mixer into a CD burner. This was all experimental Acid House, my skills at making rock music playing no part in it whatsoever. I had lost interest in traditional songwriting and I was excited about finding new methods for creating music. I’d surround myself with machines, program one and then another and enjoy what was a fascinating process from beginning to end. I was so excited by the method of using numbers much in the same way I’d used my muscles all my life. Skills that had previously been applied by my subconscious were gradually becoming conscious, by virtue of having numerical theoretical means of thinking about rhythm, melody and sound.”
He recently unveiled the first track from his self titled LP Trickfinger. The track itself is called After Below. The LP is being slated for release on April 7th via Acid Test. After Below is highly experimental in terms of it’s production. Really dark undertones, with intricately layered yet subtle beatwork, and hypnotic melodies. The entire album was produced on the classic analog synths that gave birth to acid music.
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