''4-Track Guitar Music'' is the sixth overall and first internet EP by

John Frusciante John Anthony Frusciante (; born March 5, 1970) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers across three stints since 1988. He has released 11 solo albums and 7 EPs, ranging in style from acoustic guitar to e ...

, 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. It is an

instrumental An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instru ...

EP. The recording of the EP took place while Frusciante was taking a full electronic direction of his music, 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."

Track listing

Personnel

– all instruments, engineering, mixing, mastering, producing * Aura T-09 – cover art, design

References

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