John Frusciante - The Will to Death
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Artist: John FruscianteBrand: FRUSCIANTE,JOHN
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: Record Collection
Soundtracks:
- A Doubt
- An Exercise
- Time Runs Out
- Loss
- Unchanging
- The Mirror
- A Loop
- Wishing
- Far Away
- The Days Have Turned
- Helical
- The Will to Death
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Free Music Review: Doubt
Hit: 5 Stars
John Frusciante has been a part of my life since I was 10 years old. I grew up listening to him and the post-Hilel Red Hot Chili Peppers, always paying closer attention to his guitar playing than I did to Anthony's singing or Flea's bass heroics. As cliched as this sounds, I suppose John is one of the few musicians I listen to, and I do listen to and enjoy a lot of musicians, whose work I can connect with spiritually. When I listen to John play the pieces I consider his most beautiful, I become filled with so much positive emotion I feel high. For whatever reason, I looked upon John's decision to release six albums throughout the remainder of the year with some trepidation. Would these albums live up to the high quality of Shdaows Collide With People? Was John Frusciante beginning to stretch himself thin? Would I even enjoy this record at all? The Will to Death is, up to this point, my favorite piece of work by John Frusciante. John's solo music is so special to me that I am apprehensive about playing any of his first three solo albums for people because I know how angry I will get if they criticize John's playing or voice. Shadows Collide with People is safe in this regard because it is so overproduced and essentially a pop album at heart, although it is very personal to me as well. The production on the Will to Death represents the perfect medium between John's first three solo albums and his fourth. In my opinion, this is how every Frusciante album should be produced. The songs themselves are all beautiful, with the deeper, more introspective songs on an already lyrically deep and introspective album taking on a life of and creating worlds of their own. John's voice couldn't sound better and his minimalist guitar playing compliments his rejuvinated vocals perfectly, allowing for his poetry to take center stage for the first time. The song which best exemplifies this is the Mirror, with it's ethereal whisps of smoke and haunting piano playing, it examines the self-destructive psyche of an essentially good human being. At the emotional apex of the song, Frusciante sings a crystaline, "Time doesn't crawl back to where it doesn't show, no one means me when they say people don't grow. The face in the mirror is not me." If you know anything about John Frusciante's life story, these lyrics and the sonic landscape they inhabit are familiar. Familiar is a good word for describing the subject matter Frusciante tackles on this record. Again, John examines ontological and psychological topics, such as loss, pain, life, death, consciousness, the nature of space-time, and reincarnation. John also examines love in the amazing Far Away, which sounds like something Lennon and Mccartney could have written if they had been able to reconcile during their solo careers in the 1970's because it meshes the two without ever really sounding Beatle-esque. My favorite song on the album is the mildly psychedelic "Wishing", which has the amazing ability to transport me back to childhood every time I listen to it, in part becuase of the background chimes that recall the ice cream truck man in the summer. Other stand-outs include the opening tack Doubt, The Loop, Days Have Turned, and the Will to Death. As a side note, Helical is one the best John Frusciante instrumentals, rivaling Ramparts in its beauty. This album is a very high watermark to set for one's self, which makes me all the more excited for John's next five solo projects and the work he is supposedly doing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Omar Rodriguez of Mars Volta. Thank you, John.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: FRUSCIANTE,JOHN
Title: WILL TO DEATH
Street Release Date: 06/22/2004
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