4-Track Guitar Music is the sixth overall and first internet EP by John Frusciante, released on November 24, 2015, onto his Bandcamp and SoundCloud. 4-Track Guitar Music was also released the same day and year as Renoise Tracks 2009–2011, his first internet album since 2001's From the Sounds Inside.
Recording
4-Track Guitar Music was recorded in May 2010.[1] It is an instrumentalEP. The recording of the EP took place while Frusciante was taking a full electronic direction of his music,[2] saying this possibly with the release of his fifth EP, Letur-Lefr, and stating this definitely with his ninth studio album, PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, and later albums and projects.
Frusciante said, at the release of the EP on his SoundCloud, 4-Track Guitar Music was "recorded on a 4-track cassette in May 2010, the instrumentation being 3 guitars and one drum machine. It is a bunch of weird anti-rock star guitar solos, played mainly on a Mosrite Ventures guitar, and a Yamaha SG, accompanied by an Elektron Machinedrum, excepting one song where I used a Roland TR 707, and another where a 707 was used, but is not in the mix."[2]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Untitled 1" (Mix 3 !!)
1:54
2.
"Untitled 2" (Mix 4 – loud guitars !!)
3:25
3.
"Untitled 3" (Mix 2 !!)
2:55
4.
"Untitled 4" (Mix 4 !!)
4:38
5.
"Untitled 5" (Mix 2 !!)
3:14
6.
"Venice May 1" (Mix 4)
2:48
Total length:
19:00
Personnel
John Frusciante – all instruments, engineering, mixing, mastering, producing
