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NIANDRA LADES

Dates: June 1990 – March 1991
Players: John Frusciante
Additional Musicians: Randy Ruff, Abbie Rude, Toni Oswald
Recorded at: John’s Home (8505 Hollywood Blvd), Los Angeles, CA

• Head (Beach Arab)

• My Smile Is a Rifle

• Big Takeover

• Curtains

• Mascara

• Been Insane

• Skin Blues

• Ten to Butter Blood Voodoo

  Released on album “Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt”

• The Other

• Poppy Man

• I’m Always

• Femininity

• Breathe

• For Air

• Smile from the Streets You Hold [first half]

  Released on album “Smile From the Streets You Hold”

• Unknown

  Unreleased, but featured as the opening song on short movie “Stuff”

• Turn Around in a Circle

  Unreleased, but performed live

These songs were recorded at the same time the Chili Peppers were writing Blood Sugar Sex Magik. However, John has mentioned being on heroin when he played the guitar solo on Ten to Butter Blood Voodoo, but according to this Jane's Addiction bio, he used heroin for the first time in September 1991, so that could mean further work or overdubs were added later.

Big Takeover is a Bad Brains cover. Around April/May of 1990, John played another Bad Brains cover (“Sailin’ On”) in a similar acoustic style in a fan-club interview, that can be heard here. It’s possible that the cover heard on the album was recorded at around the same time.

The unknown song, Running Away Into You, Untitled #2 (with a poem read on top of it) and Untitled #3 were featured on the short movie Stuff, filmed at his house well over a year and a half before the album was released. In fact, it was Johnny Depp and Gibby Haynes, who made the movie, the ones who first encouraged John to release his solo music.

The fan-titled Turn Around in a Circle, performed live a few times, was also recorded during these sessions and it’s believed to appear on a very early advance copy of the album, as a few seconds can be heard during the VPRO 1994 documentary at 01:10:08. The album wouldn’t be released for another seven months after the interview took place, but an advance copy from American Recordings dated March 8, 1994 can be seen on one of the shots at John’s CD collection, that he probably gave to Bram Van Splunteren, as bits of other songs were also featured. It’s likely more songs were also recorded during this period, but master tapes are now lost.

Dates: April – May 1991
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home (8505 Hollywood Blvd), Los Angeles, CA

• As Can Be

• Your Pussy’s Glued to a Building on Fire

• Blood on My Neck from Success

  Released on album “Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt”

• Ants

  Released on the initial cassette version of “Niandra LaDes”, and the 7” single included with the deluxe vinyl reissue of the album in 2017

• Outside Space

  Released on the “Estrus” 7” single in 1997

John continued writting songs during this period, and would later record them on weekends when he would go home from the Mansion, where the band was recording Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Your Pussy’s Glued to a Building on Fire originally included an extra verse at the end, but was removed for release for unknown reasons, you can hear the cut at the exact last second of the song. However, it was performed live this way once in 1997, and another in 2001.

Dates: June 1992
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home (8505 Hollywood Blvd), Los Angeles, CA

• Running Away into You

  Released on album “Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt”

USUALLY JUST A T-SHIRT

Dates: June 1990 — April 1992
Players: John Frusciante, Abbie Rude, Toni Oswald, Randy Ruff
Recorded at: John’s Home (8505 Hollywood Blvd), Los Angeles, CA

• Untitled #1

• Untitled #2

• Untitled #3

• Untitled #4

• Untitled #5

• Untitled #6

• Untitled #7

• Untitled #8

• Untitled #9

• Untitled #10

• Untitled #11

• Untitled #12

• Untitled #13

  Released on album “Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt”

• Usually Just a T-Shirt

  Released on the initial cassette version of “Niandra LaDes”, and the 7” single included with the deluxe vinyl reissue of the album in 2017

Usually Just a T-Shirt existed as a completely separate project from the Niandra LaDes tracks, although it was recorded during the same timeframe. The last song on this album was recorded a week before Robert Hayes passed away (April 19, 1992) and were recorded in the order they appear on the tracklist.

SMILE FROM THE STREETS YOU HOLD

The album was had no proper recording sessions as it’s basically an amalgamation of songs from various periods of time from 1988 to 1996.

John had the album removed from record stores in 1998 after rejoining the band because he felt uncomfortable with it being available to the public. He’s been quoted as saying that he released Smile from the Streets You Hold for drug money. Later in March 2005, he mentioned on his official website that he changed his mind about the album and had plans to sell all the copies of the album that he had sitting in a warehouse by selling them directly through the site, but this never ended up happening.

There are two different mixes of the album - one features lower sound quality and has frequent hiss and hum. Originally, we thought they came from two different pressings but according to Larry, Birdman Records' engineer at the time, when they were mixing/mastering the record John came in with a brown paper bag full of unlabeled cassette tapes and just sorted through them finding the songs he wanted on the record. When the CDs were pressed John found better mixes of the songs, so they had to press new copies and the first batch ended up as test pressings, advance copies and freebies for friends.

Dates: Early 1988
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Apartment, Los Angeles, CA.

• A Fall Thru the Ground

  Released on album “Smile from the Streets You Hold”

Recorded when John was 17 years old, some months before he joined the Chili Peppers. The song was originally a bit longer but was shortened for release. Three more songs were recorded during this period, however they have never been released or surfaced online and master tapes gone lost.

Dates: Spring 1993
Players: John Frusciante, River Phoenix
Recorded at: John’s Home (8505 Hollywood Blvd), Los Angeles, CA

• Well, I’ve Been

• Height Down

  Released on album “Smile from the Streets You Hold”

Both songs were recorded on two different nights at John’s home. Originally meant to be released on Niandra LaDes under the titles Bought Her Soul and Soul Removal respectively, as seen on advance copies of the album, but removed at last minute due to River’s family preventing them from being released.

Dates: Late 1993
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: Unknown, Los Angeles, CA

• Life’s a Bath

  Released on album “Smile from the Streets You Hold”

Recorded during a very short period living at a rented house in Laurel Canyon while his Hollywood Blvd. home was being repaired from a fire caused by electrical malfunction. 

Dates: Late 1994
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Apartment, New York, NY

• Enter a Uh

• I May Again Know John

• Smile from the Streets You Hold [second half]

• Nigger Song

  Released on album “Smile from the Streets You Hold”

Sometime in 1994, he moves to New York with Toni Oswald, his girlfriend at the time.

Dates: Sometime in 1996
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: Unknown, Los Angeles, CA

• More

• I Can’t See Until I Can See Your Eyes

• Estress

  Released on album “Smile from the Streets You Hold”

THIRD ALBUM SESSIONS

Dates: June — July 1997
Players: John Frusciante, Norwood Fisher, Chris Warren
Recorded at: Jimmy Boyle’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Circles of You

• Dust Bin

• Elemental

• What It Tastes Like

• Water Fall Through

  and more songs

After the Nuttstalk ‘97 tour was over, John entered the studio to record the songs he’d been recently performing live. These songs were apparently written when he was 15 and 16 years old and their original names are unknown, but were fan-titled for easier recognition.
The session was mentioned on the only two magazine interviews he gave that year and then have never been mentioned ever again, nor there’s any info at all about them:

“Frusciante is planning to record and release with a band tentatively featuring close friends Chris Warren of Thelonius Monster and Fishbone's Norwood Fisher (the duo that made up John's supporting band on the recent Nuttstalk '97 tour)” – Bikini, August 1997 issue
“The recent release of Smile, new sessions in producer Jimmy Boyle’s L.A. studio, an interest in releasing tapes of 3 Amoebas (his improve trio with Flea and Jane’s Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins) and his participation in this summer’s Nuttsalk tour with members of P-Funk and Fishbone represent Frusciante’s first forays back into the land of the living” – Guitar Player, November 1997 issue

Most of his master tapes up to this point got lost when John had to leave the house he was renting at the time as the owner threated to send the cops on him. Eventually a friend picked up all his stuff from there, but the tapes were hidden and were later thrown away by the house owner. For this reason, this session, any other outtakes from previous sessions and all of John’s demos from when he was a teenager are (probably) lost forever.

TO RECORD ONLY WATER FOR TEN DAYS

Dates: Throughout 1998
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home, Silverlake, CA

• Untitled 2000

• Back and Forth (To the Sun)

  Leaked to the internet

• Three Thoughts

• I Go Through These Walls

• Murmur

• Innerstate Sex

• Dying (I Don't Mind)

• The Battle of Time

• With Love

• Beat Down

• Fallout [take 1]

• Low Birds

• Slow Down

• Nature Falls

• Leave All the Days Behind

• Place to Drive

• How High

• Leaving You

• Sailing Outdoors

  Released for free on John’s official website in August 2001

• So Would’ve I

• Beginning Again

• The Last Hymn

  Released on the “Going Inside” single on March 5, 2001

• Saturation

• Fallout [take 2]

  Released on album “To Record Only Water for Ten Days”

Everything during this period was recorded without a commercial release in mind and even less as an album project.
Ten of these songs first leaked in late 2000 from a cassette tape John had given to some friends. Shortly after, a 21-song CD-R was once again given to friends. This disc contained eight of the ten songs previously featured on the cassette tape. When John figured out these were leaking to the internet, he asked the webmaster of his official website at the time to make it available for free on his website. This anthology release was eventually given the title From the Sounds Inside from a poll with various choices suggested by fans. John had nothing to do with the album title and didn’t even recognize it when asked about it on a Q&A session in 2004. Most of these songs are untitled as well, but were given fan-titles for easier recognition.

Dates: Late 1998 - 1999
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home, Silverlake, CA

• With No One

• The First Season

• Representing

• Moments Have You

• Someone’s

• Wind Up Space

  Released on album “To Record Only Water for Ten Days”

• Time Is Nothing

  Released on the “Going Inside” single on March 5, 2001

• Resolution

  Released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of “To Record Only Water for Ten Days”

• All We Have

• Light Ahead

• Every Light Will Burn

• Fill My Nights

• Drift Down

  Leaked to the internet

A few months later, he gave another CD-R with 13 songs to friends. Most of the songs were eventually officially released, but five were completely unknown until it leaked to the internet sometime in 2006.

Dates: November 1999 — April 2000
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home, Silverlake, CA
Produced by: John Frusciante

• Going Inside

• Away & Anywhere

• Remain

• Ramparts

• Murderers

• Invisible Movement

• In Rime

  Released on album “To Record Only Water for Ten Days”

Third and final batch of recordings for the album. Further work during this period was done as well, as some edits, overdubs and backing vocals were also performed for several songs from the earlier sessions. These songs were tracked on a digital 8-track recorder (Yamaha MD8) unlike the previous songs, which were done on a simple 4-track. Guitars used for the recording were an acoustic Martin guitar (borrowed from Anthony Kiedis), a 1966 Fender Mustang and a 1961 Gibson SG, as all of his main guitars were on the road or in storage while the Chili Peppers were touring for Californication. A Korg M1 keyboard and a Akai MPC3000 drum machine were also used. The songs intended for commercial release were transfered onto a 2" analog tape to be mixed on a conventional 24-track console in a professional studio.

THE BROWN BUNNY OST

Dates: 2001 to late 2002
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home, Silverlake, CA

• Forever Away

• Dying Song

• Prostitution Song

• Falling

  Released on “The Brown Bunny OST”

Recording dates for these tracks are hard to narrow down. John’s songs were not featured in the movie, but rather served as an inspiration during filming sessions, which happened mostly in 2002. As late as June 2002 was still considered an ongoing project, but he spoke about it in the past tense during a March 2003 interview, saying he’d been making music for the movie for “around three years”.

With all the scarce information gathered, we assume the songs intended for the movie (with the exception of “Leave All the Things Behind” from the 1998 sessions) were recorded between early 2001 and late 2002. A mixture of instrumentals and songs were written specifically for the movie with a good amount of leftover material unreleased.

FOURTH ALBUM SESSIONS

Dates: December 2000
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
Recorded at: Jimmy Boyle’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA.

John mentioned recording some songs at Jimmy Boyle’s studio in most interviews done while promoting To Record Only Water for Ten Days:

”A few days ago, we recorded two new songs with my other friend, Josh, on drums, and the sound we got was fabulous. We still haven't recorded the overdubs, but just the guitar and drum tracks together sound incredibly good.” – Guitar & Bass (France), March 2001 issue (interview from December 2000)

”I'm working for the Chili Peppers in the first place but when there's time left – so when Anthony is not in town or Flea's spending time with his daughter on the weekends – then I can go to the studio with Josh and work on new songs.” – Gitare & Bass (Germany), March 2001 issue (interview from December 2000)

“I’ll also be simultaneously recording my next record, which my manager said I’m not allowed to release another record for a year so I’ve got to wait a year, but I’ve already started recording it and I’m very excited about it. I have a drummer who plays drums the way I would play drums if I played drums.” – VIVA Zwei 2 Rock (Germany), January 2001

“As soon as I finish this promotional tour in Europe, I'm going back to Los Angeles to record the next Red Hot Chili Peppers album. I will also continue to work with Josh on my own music whenever I get the chance. With a little luck, the Red Hot Chili Peppers album will be ready in 6 months and we'll go on tour right after, which is to say at the start of the school year. I also hope to release something of my own around the same time.” - Rock Mag (France), March 2001 issue (interview from February 2001)

It’s unknown which and how many songs were recorded as these sessions were never mentioned again from this point. Our guess it's that his plans were abandoned when he was refused to release another album so soon after To Record Only Water for Ten Days, and changed his plans once he started working on By the Way.

FOURTH ALBUM DEMOS

Dates: Between mid-2001 and early 2002
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
Recorded at: John’s Home, Los Angeles, CA, Josh’s Home, Los Angeles, CA & Swing House Rehearsal & Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Omission

• The Slaughter

• Ricky

• Cut-Out

• In Relief

• Every Person

• Time Goes Back

• Regret

• Carvel

Every song was recorded on Josh’s Tascam 8-track cassette recorder, except for Omission which was recorded at the Swing House where the Chili Peppers were rehearsing at the time for the By the Way tour. The demos were officially released for free on John’s website in March 2004, shortly after Shadows Collide with People was out.

“TODAY YOUR LOVE, TOMORROW THE WORLD”

Dates: 2002 (unconfirmed)
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home, Los Angeles, CA

This Ramones cover was recorded specifically for their tribute album “We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones”.

SHADOWS COLLIDE WITH PEOPLE

Dates: December 2002 — January 2003
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith
Additional Musicians: Flea, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Greg Kurstin, Charlie Clouser
Recorded at: Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA

• Shadows Collide with People

• Carvel

• Omission

• Regret

• Ricky

• Second Walk

• Every Person

• -00Ghost27

• Wednesday's Song

• This Cold

• Failure33Object

• Song to Sing When I'm Lonely

• Time Goes Back

• In Relief

• Water

• Cut-Out

• Chances

• 23 Go in to End

• The Slaughter

  Released on album “Shadows Collide with People”

• Of Before

  Released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of “Shadows Collide with People”

Songwriting process started as early as January 2001 as John premiered some of these songs during his solo acoustic tour that year. The album was originally conceived as collaboration between John & Josh and planned to be issued under a band name. Josh wrote the drum parts and was supposed to record them for the album, but was too nervous at the recording sessions, so Chad Smith was called at last minute. A list of who played what on each track can be found here, courtesy of Josh.

Most of the guitar parts were recorded with his '62 Fender Stratocaster and '66 Telecaster, but also used his 60's Gibson SG Custom for overdubs and his 50's Martin for acoustic parts. Production was finished in late April 2003, but it took 10 months for the album to release, considered his most expensive album to date costing a total of around $150,000.

OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ & JOHN FRUSCIANTE

Dates: April 2003
Players: John Frusciante, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Recorded at: Omar’s Home, Los Angeles, CA

• 4:17 am

• 0=2

• LOE

• ZIM

• VTA

• 0

• 5:45 am

  Released on album “Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante”

The album was recorded on a 1-inch tape machine in Omar’s bedroom with no idea of releasing it at the time.

“GRISAISSE 1”

Dates: August 2003 (unconfirmed)
Players: John Frusciante, Ekkehard Ehlers
Recorded at: Unknown, Berlin, Germany (unconfirmed)

This collaborative effort was released on the various artists compilation “Tempo Technik Teamwork” on October 20, 2004. It’s unknown where and when this song was recorded, but the band performed in Berlin, Germany (where Ehlers lives) on August 19, 2003 where he joined them for the outro jam, released as “Tuesday Night in Berlin” on the second “Fortune Faded” single, which also includes his “Californication” remix. Taking of all this into account, it’s likely it was all worked on around this timeframe.

ACOUSTIC RENDITIONS OF SHADOWS COLLIDE WITH PEOPLE

Dates: Late 2003 or Early 2004
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home, Los Angeles, CA

• Carvel

• Omission

• Regret

• Ricky

• Second Walk

• Every Person

• Wednesday's Song

• This Cold

• Song to Sing When I'm Lonely

• Time Goes Back

• In Relief

• Water

• Cut-Out

• Chances

• The Slaughter

John recorded acoustic versions of the songs from the album to be specifically released on his official website in March 2004, as an alternative to fans that prefer a more raw, stripped down sound. Recorded directly into a mini-disc recorder in his living room.

DEMO SESSIONS FOR 2004 ALBUMS

Dates: Between 2003 and 2004
Players: John Frusciante, ?
Recorded at: John’s Home, Los Angeles, CA (unconfirmed)

• Become

• Drill

• Time Tonight

  and many more songs

These songs made its way to the public as digital bonus tracks on the Curtains vinyl repress released on November 19, 2019. It’s unknown exactly when and where they were recorded and who else plays on them, but they’re allegedly for the demo sessions at John’s studio for the 2004 albums - as such, many more songs were recorded during this timeframe but there isn’t really any info about the sessions.

THE WILL TO DEATH

Dates: December 18 and 19, 2003 and January 8, 9 and 10, 2004
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
Recorded at: Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA & Larrabee East Studios, North Hollywood, CA

• 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

  Released on album "The Will to Death"

Following the long and expensive recording process for Shadows Collide with People, John intended to record music quickly and in a minimalist fashion. This session would be the first of the many that happened in 2004.

ATAXIA

Dates: Late January – Early February 2004
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer, Joe Lally
Recorded at: Unknown

• Dust

• Another

• The Sides

• Addition

• Montreal

  Released on album “Automatic Writing”

• Attention

• Union

• Hands

• The Soldier

• The Empty’s Response

  Released on album “AWII”

The band wrote 10 songs during a two-week period in December 2003 and recorded them shortly after, playing two live shows in the middle of the studio sessions on February 2 and 3, 2004. Most of the songs were tracked live to tape.

DC EP

Dates: February 9 and 10, 2004
Players: John Frusciante, Jerry Busher
Recorded at: Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA

• Dissolve

• Goals

• A Corner

• Repeating

  Released on "DC EP"

This session was produced by Ian Mackaye from Fugazi and to date it’s the only solo session that wasn't produced by John himself and features no synthesizers at all. None of his own equipment or instruments were used - for guitar solos he borrowed Guy Picciotto’s Les Paul Junior, played through Ian’s Marshall pictured on the cover of Red Medicine.

INSIDE OF EMPTINESS

Dates: March 8-13, 2004
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
Additional Musicians: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Recorded at: Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, CA

• What I Saw

• The World's Edge

• Inside a Break

• A Firm Kick

• Look on

• Emptiness

• I'm Around

• 666

• Interior Two

• Scratches

  Released on album "Inside of Emptiness"

A SPHERE IN THE HEART OF SILENCE

Dates: April 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15, 2004
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
Recorded at: Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA & Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA

• Sphere

• The Afterglow

• Walls

• Communique

• At Your Enemies

• Surrogate People

• My Life

  Released on album “A Sphere in the Heart of Silence”

Sphere was originally written as a 30 minute piece meant to be performed live at Performance One but it was later shortened to 10 minutes for the purpose of fitting the record and it’s unknown if a full version was recorded.
The Afterglow, At Your Enemies and Surrogate People were originally written for Shadows Collide with People, but were left out due to the experimental nature of the songs. There’s a chance demos for those songs were recorded during those sessions.

CURTAINS

Dates: May 8-14 and 19-23, 2004
Players: John Frusciante
Additional Musicians: Carla Azar, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Ken Wild
Recorded at: John’s Home, Los Angeles, CA

• The Past Recedes

• Lever Pulled

• Anne

• The Real

• A Name

• Control

• Your Warning

• Hope

• Ascension

• Time Tonight

• Leap Your Bar

  Released on album "Curtains"

TRICKFINGER

Dates: Between September and December 2007
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• After Below

• Before Above

• Rainover

• Sain

• 85h

• 4:30

• 100mc4

• Phurip

  Released on album “Trickfinger”

• Shift Sync

• Ruche

• Exlam

• Hasan

• Cuh

• Stall

  Released on album “Trickfinger II”

After learning how to use various synths and drum machines in hotels and buses for about a year during the Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium tour, John started recording these songs as soon as he got home. This music was made strictly to learn how to operate electronic machines, with no intention of it being released. At the same time, he was working on The Empyrean.

Everything was recorded live directly onto a Tascam CD burner through a 16-channel Mackie mixer with minimal guitar overdubs added later. Electronic instruments used during the sessions were a R8, a 303, a 606, a 808, a 101, a 202, an ARP 2500 and an EMT 250 reverb.

THE EMPYREAN

Dates: Between December 2006 and March 2008
Players: John Frusciante, Josh Klinghoffer
Additional Musicians: Flea, Johnny Marr, Sonus Quartet, The New Dimension Singers
Recorded at: John’s Home, Los Angeles, CA

• Before the Beginning

• Song to the Siren

• Unreachable

• God

• Dark/Light

• Heaven

• Enough of Me

• Central

• One More of Me

• After the Ending

  Released on album “The Empyrean”

• Today

• Ah Yom

  Released as bonus tracks on the Japanese edition for “The Empyrean”

• Here, Air

  Released for free on John’s website on June 2, 2010

Seventeen songs were written for this album but it’s uncertain if the remaining four songs to be released were actually recorded during the sessions. It’s likely one of those songs is Scratch, reworked and recorded for the Enclosure sessions, as it was originally written for this album. The sessions only took about two months, but were happening on and off between touring for Stadium Arcadium.

4-TRACK GUITAR MUSIC

Dates: May 2010
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Untitled #1

• Untitled #2

• Untitled #3

• Untitled #4

• Untitled #5

• Venice May 1

  Released for free on John’s Soundcloud

Recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder using 3 guitars (Mosrite Ventures and two different Yamaha SGs) and an Elektron Machinedrum. There’s also one song featuring a Roland TR 707.

ELECTRONIC MUSIC SESSIONS

PBX FUNICULAR INTAGLIO ZONE

Dates: Between March - Late 2011
Players: John Frusciante
Additional Musicians: Kinetic 9, Laena Geronimo
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Intro/Sabam

• Hear Say

• Bike

• Ratiug

• Guitar

• Mistakes

• Uprane

• Sam

• Sum

  Released on album “PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone”

This recording session was the first one intended to be released since he started working on his electronic music projects

OUTSIDES

Dates: 2012
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Same

• Breathiac

• Shelf

  Released on the “Outsides” EP

• Sol

  Released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition for the “Outsides” EP 

THE BLACK KNIGHTS

The three Black Knights albums produced by John came from the same recording sessions that happened for a little over a year. A few songs were taken off Excalibur at last minute, so it seems a few songs remain unreleased from the sessions.

Dates: Mid-2012 – Late 2013
Players: John Frusciante, Rugged Monk, Crisis
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Drawbridge

• The Joust

• Medieval Times

• Trickfingers’ Playhouse

• Sword in Stone

• Knighthood

• Déjà Vu

• Roundtable

• Keys to the Chastity Belt

• Camelot

• Released on album “Medieval Chamber”

• Wayne [Remix]

  Released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition for “Medieval Chamber”

• The Truth

• Hood Liberator

• World Renowned

• New Day

• Understanding (They Got Love)

• Ahead of My Time

• Darts of War

• Non-Believers

• Reptables

• Highrising

• Techniques & Shockwaves

• Hard to Be

• Finish Line

• The Almighty

  Released on album “The Almighty”

• Royal Bloodline

• Head Above Water

• Pocket Full of Hollows

• Sir Lancelot’s Love

• Medieval Chronicles

• Mind Elevation

• Lab Rat

• Saturday’s Children

• Prince Valiant and the Scarlet

• Scroll of Excalibur

  Released on album “Excalibur”

• Never Let Go

• Liquid Sky

• Roundtable Discussion

• Gang Related

• Shadows of a Panther

• Boondocks

• The Devil’s Pig

  Released for free on John’s website during 2014-2015.

ENCLOSURE

Dates: Early 2013
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Shining Desert

• Sleep

• Run

• Stage

• Fanfare

• Cinch

• Zone

• Crowded

• Excuses

  Released on album “Enclosure”

• Vesiou

• Scratch

  Released as bonus tracks on the “Enclosure” Japanese edition

"WAYNE"

Dates: April 5, 2013
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Produced by: John Frusciante

This song was written especially for his friend Wayne, former road chef for the Chili Peppers, who passed away a few days before recording the song. It was released April 7, 2013 as a tribute to his memory on John’s official website.

"FIGHT FOR LOVE"

Dates: November 2013
Players: John Frusciante, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Recorded at: ?

Interpretation of a song from the film Casa De Mi Padre by Will Ferrell & Génesis Rodríguez. Uploaded to his official Soundcloud on November 24, 2015.

"POEM"

Dates: July 2017
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

Uploaded to his official Soundcloud on July 10, 2017 with no info or description whatsoever, but it’s believed to be inspired by Pierre Henry, composer and pioneer in the musique concrète genre of electronic music, and released as a tribute as he passed away a few days before the song was released.

“A3T1IP”

Dates: Unknown
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

Uploaded to his official Soundcloud on December 12, 2018. The tags from the original source file state that the song was originally named Pita 3.3 from Pita CD3, and was the third track from an eleven track collection of which no other tracks have been released.

MAYA

Dates: 2018
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Brand E

• Usbrup Pensul

• Flying

• Pleasure Explanation

• Blind Aim

• Reach Out

• Amethblowl

  Released on album “Maya”

• Discobong Flange

• Simplicity

  Released as digital bonus tracks with the purchase of any piece of the Evar Records’ Trickfinger clothes collection on May 22, 2023

These songs were recorded after a period of not making music for a few years (2015-2018). After his divorce, John came back to his main house, rebuilt his studio and started approaching music in a new way - not worrying about the result, just challenging himself to discover new things with the equipment in hand. This album is the result of spending a whole year writing songs.
Discobong Flange and Simplicity are believed to be from these sessions, as they were previously featured on two different Aura T-09 sets from June 2020 and May 2021, which also featured songs from the album on February 2019 (Usbrup Pensul) and April 2020 (Amethblowl).

SHE SMILES BECAUSE SHE PRESSES THE BUTTON

Dates: 2018
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Amb

• Brise

• Noice

• Plane

• Rhyme Four

• Sea YX6

  Released on album “She Smiles Because She Presses the Button”

Recorded just like the first two Trickfinger albums (live onto a Tascam CD burner through a 16-channel Mackie mixer), though not exactly using the same equipment.

“LYNG SHAKE”

Dates: 2019?
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Produced by: John Frusciante

Released as part of the “Music in Support of Black Mental Health” Bandcamp compilation on July 3, 2020. This song could also be part of the Maya sessions.

LOOK DOWN, SEE US

Dates: 2019
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• GR 8

• Meaning To

• Cymm Trace

• Look Down, See Us

  Released on the “Look Down, See Us” EP

These songs were the first being recorded in his new big studio with more gear and computers.

. I : I I .

Dates: Between late 2021 and early 2022
Players: John Frusciante
Recorded at: John’s Home Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Clank

• Sluice

• Firpln

• Unitiled

• Pyn

• MK 2.1

  Released on albums ". I :" and ": I I ."

• OFD

  Exclusive to the vinyl-only version ". I :"

• Golpin

• Blesub Dot

• Frantay

• Galvation

  Exclusive to the digital and compact disc-only version ": II ."

Much like the first two Trickfinger albums, all tracks were recorded live to a CD burner with no overdubs and executed on one or two machines. Recorded after the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ sessions for albums Unlimited Love and Return of Dream Canteen but before and during the mixing process.