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.

4-Track Guitar Music
EP by
ReleasedNovember 24, 2015
RecordedMay 2010
GenreExperimental rock
Length19:00
LabelSelf-released on Bandcamp and SoundCloud
ProducerJohn Frusciante
John Frusciante chronology
Trickfinger
(2015)
4-Track Guitar Music
(2015)
Renoise Tracks 2009–2011
(2015)

Recording

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4-Track Guitar Music was recorded in May 2010.[1] It is an instrumental EP. 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

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No.TitleLength
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

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  • John Frusciante – all instruments, engineering, mixing, mastering, producing
  • Aura T-09 – cover art, design

References

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  1. ^ Young, Alex (November 25, 2015). "John Frusciante just gave away a boatload of music for free download".
  2. ^ a b Grebey, James (November 25, 2015). "Former Red Hot Chili Peppers Guitarist John Frusciante Just Released Lots of Free Music". Spin. Retrieved October 26, 2023.