John Frusciante introduced his new single Amethblowl and upcoming record Maya yesterday on the Mary Anne Hobbs Show on BBC Radio 6.

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New promotional photos of John Frusciante. Photography was done by Aura T-09.

John Frusciante picked his favorite Bandcamp releases and shared them with us all!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 20 years, you’re undoubtedly aware of John Frusciante’s guitar chops. His soaring riffs and triumphant solos were pivotal in elevating the Red Hot Chili Peppers to international stardom and creative triumph, acting as the cerebral complement to Flea’s funky bass and Anthony Kiedis’ nonsensical raps. There’s another, woefully-unexplored side to Frusciante aside from his work with the Peppers and as a solo artist, though—for the past 13 years, he’s been moonlighting as the electronic auteur Trickfinger, assembling rave music, ambient, acid, UK garage and more into warped, homespun soundscapes. His third album under that alias, She Smiles Because She Presses The Button, arrived last month on the Acid Test sub-label Avenue 66. It marks the culmination of his journey thus far, his meticulous attention to detail and melody reinterpreted from a digitized standpoint.

Frusciante’s introduction to electronic music predates his career arc as a rocker; he first experienced it at age 6, when he heard Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” on the radio. “I was very into New Wave starting when I was 9, and Eno and stuff, but Rave music really started to take off in ’92 when I was beginning a five-year drug run,” Frusciante says. “I had cut myself off from the world and wasn’t paying attention. When I got clean in 1997, I suddenly felt very drawn to anything with synths, drum machines, and breaks, and I started buying as many different kinds of recent electronic music as I could. Some standout discoveries over that next few years were Aphex Twin (Classics), 808 State (Newbuild), Komakino (Energy Trancemission), The Railway Raver (Drop Acid Not Bombs), Autechre (Tri Repetae), The Prodigy (Experience), Squarepusher (Feed Me Weird Things), and C.J. Bolland (The 4th Sign).” Though he’s technically been making electronic music since 1998, it took nearly another ten years for his endeavors to bear fruit. “It wasn’t until 2007, when the first Trickfinger stuff was made, that I found the right gear for me, and was dead set on the path of being my own engineer.”

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Ryan Hewitt (producer, mixer, engineer) recently did an Ask Me Anything on his Instagram after a fan reached out to him with questions about John Frusciante’s The Will To Death. Ryan received a lot of questions about the recording process of the album. Below is an excerpt, find a full transcript here!

Q: What did you use for the effects in A Doubt? Particularly the higher tone noise in the intro and the whooshing noises at around 2:00. Similarly for the whooshing noises in The Mirror. Synth? Or cymbals with heavy effects? A: Mostly John using his modular synth. It was a huge presence on his records at the time. Unlimited possibilities using that as a processor. He got super creative… Q: What was the odd piano thingy breakdown in Wishing? A: A bunch of music boxes. No I have to correct myself! I think it actually may have been a bunch of piano loops John and Josh made with guitar pedals. Q: What are the main musical and non-musical life lessons you learned from working with John? A: I could write a book!! That man is on another planet from us mere mortals… truly. I just tried to keep up most of the time.

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John Frusciante was recently interviewed by Tsuyoshi Kizu for Ele-King.net. The interview was posted in Japanese. Below you will find a translation by Google.

For many, even when he left the band, he would have been “Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) John Frusciante”, and he’s known to be the band’s greatest masterpiece, “Californication.” He would have been a guitarist who brought lyricism. That’s why the news about the return to the band, which was announced the other day, was enthusiastically received by old fans, and as a member of the stadium band, I want to see him playing the guitar again.

But the listener, who has been following his solo career, knows that Frusciante is a great electronic music maker. In the past solo works, he sometimes introduced electronic elements to guitar music, but since he used the name Trickfinger, he concentrates on pure electronic music such as Acid House and IDM. His machine music isn’t new, but it’s very neat, and the lyrical spilling from it is so tasty.

His album “She Smiles Because She Presses The Button”, which is the first Trickfinger in three years, also shows his strengths well. There is an IDM like early outing, there are tracks with jungle elements popping out along the way, and there is a melodious acid house. You can hear that each of them is very carefully made. Rhythm patterns and detailed arrangements of sounds are more sophisticated than they have ever been, and as I say, they are the result of constant efforts. As a guitarist and producer of electronic music, his overly stoic attitude has created his personality.

Even so, academic considerations for the maniac Good and music to the machine, not stop and speaks while the …… etc affection (especially endless respect for Autechre) to the electronic music, is exhibited his charming music geek first time It became an interview. As you can see in the text, after this work, there is also a solo album (according to himself) that is closer to the jungle, so I would like to look forward to not only RHCP activities but also those.

Unfortunately John has decided to no longer move forward with his own Dublab show. He has a lot of work in progress for the Chili Peppers and has decided he wants to solely devote his time and energy on that. He might do a show every now and then but for now, all shows that were scheduled for John every fourth Saturday of the month are cancelled. That includes the show that was scheduled for this Saturday.