![]() By the time an idea came up that seemed like the beginning of a tune, I had a lot of fresh elements ready to go. I'd spend weeks making breakbeats, souping up a drum machine, making DX7 patches, and so on. Throughout the recording of Maya, I would prepare to make each track very slowly, but would finish tracks very quickly. After a full year of that, I decided to make things easier, to the degree that I could regularly finish tracks I enjoyed listening to, while continuing many of the practices I‘d developed. The process of making his tracks changed over time as John explains “For a full year before I started this record, I worked within self-imposed limitations and rules that made the music-making process as difficult as possible, programming for programming's sake. It’s a varied and personal take with sophisticated, authentic production balanced against John’s acute sense of melody, an inspired blending of machines and samples infused with a joyful energy. 'Maya' is inspired by his favourite music: '91 to '96 UK breakbeat hardcore and jungle. She loved music, and with such a personal title, it didn't seem right to call myself Trickfinger, somehow, so it's by John Frusciante." ![]() He says "Maya was with me as I made music for 15 years, so I wanted to name it after her. The record is dedicated to his cat Maya who recently passed away, a fellow traveller in his otherwise solitary music making sessions. John Frusciante releases the first instrumental electronic album under his own name on Aaron Funk's Timesig label. 298 CHURCH ST is a Residential (4 Families or less) property with 1718 sq/ft of space.
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