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John Frusciante - The Empyrean (US 180g Vinyl Reissue) (2009/2019) [Vinyl-Rip]

Posted By: delpotro

Date: 4 Jul 2020 19:21:26

The eighth solo album from this enigmatic singer-songwriter and producer, best known as The Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist. This concept record features Flea, Sonus Quartet, Johnny Marr, and The New Dimension Singers. It's a record suited to dark living rooms late at night. The reissue was recut by John Frusciante and Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.

AllMusic Review by Sean Westergaard
After lying low for a few years after a tremendous burst of activity in 2004, John Frusciante is back with another solo album, Empyrean. It starts out with a fantastic instrumental called "Before the Beginning": a great minor key guitar solo, replete with echoplexed drums that was surely inspired by "Maggot Brain." After that, it's back to the kind of introspective songs that have characterized much of his solo work. His singing is actually pretty remarkable considering his initial forays into vocals. He sounds confident and assured, even as the subject matter wrestles with dark thoughts and doubt. The songs tend to be fairly spare with guitar, electric piano, bass and drums with strings adding some lushness towards the end. Frusciante also uses the studio as an instrument à la Eno, adding cool treatments to nearly every song. Some of the songs are a bit mopey and the subject matter is often on the heavy end, but "Dark/Light" shifts gears nicely (dark to light?) where the heavy reverb and piano of "Dark" gives way to the cheesy rhythm box and falsetto vocals of "Light," which leads into a nice bass-driven coda with choir. "Enough of Me" also features Johnny Marr on guitar, and one of them turns in a really nice Robert Fripp guitar solo. "One More of Me" is just strings and electric piano with Frusciante seemingly trying to sound like Stephin Merritt. Frusciante has done a nice job of carving an identity completely separate from his main gig, and Empyrean fits nicely with his other solo albums.

Tracklist:
A1 – Before The Beginning (09:09)
A2 – Song To The Siren (03:33)
A3 – Unreachable (06:10)
B1 – God (03:23)
B2 – Dark / Light (08:30)
C1 – Heaven (04:03)
C2 – Enough Of Me (04:15)
D1 – Central (07:16)
D2 – One More Of Me (04:06)
D3 – After The Ending (03:57)

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DR log

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DR19 -0.34 dB -22.51 dB 9:08 01-Before The Beginning
DR12 -9.15 dB -25.00 dB 3:34 02-Song To The Siren
DR9 -0.94 dB -14.40 dB 6:09 03-Unreachable
DR11 -0.33 dB -15.46 dB 3:21 04-God
DR13 -0.54 dB -16.99 dB 8:30 05-Dark - Light
DR12 -0.13 dB -17.32 dB 4:04 06-Heaven
DR11 -0.88 dB -14.93 dB 4:16 07-Enough Of Me
DR9 -0.28 dB -13.27 dB 7:16 08-Central
DR11 -4.26 dB -17.70 dB 4:06 09-One More Of Me
DR12 -0.36 dB -17.62 dB 3:42 10-After The Ending
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 794 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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