05 - John Frusciante - Unchanging (The Will To Death)

John Frusciante - Unchanging
Album: The Will To Death (2004)

The Will to Death is the fifth studio album by John Frusciante, released on June 22, 2004 on Record Collection. The album reached #36 on the Top Independent Albums chart.

Frequent collaborator Josh Klinghoffer appears, performing drums, bass, and keyboard.

In 2004 Frusciante announced that he would produce six albums during a six month break from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with The Will to Death being the first of these. Following the long and costly recording of his previous album, Shadows Collide With People, Frusciante decided to experiment with recording music quickly and in a minimalist fashion, performing a maximum of two takes per track.

Frusciante has stated that the album is intended to be "the opposite of Shadows Collide With People": "On The Will to Death, I thought it would be a good idea to make a record with very little backing vocals, because we'd done it so much on Shadows. I always have to have a new idea for each album. For The Will to Death, the idea was to have very little backing vocals. There's a lot of other huge differences. In every way, I wanted the opposite of Shadows. "

1. A Doubt [4:19]
2. An Exercise [3:47]
3. Time Runs Out [4:00]
4. Loss [5:20]
5. Unchanging [3:54]
6. The Mirror [3:01]
7. A Loop [4:34]
8. Wishing [2:48]
9. Far Away [2:17]
10. The Days Have Turned [2:23]
11. Helical [2:13]
12. The Will To Death [3:48]


Lyrics:

And we will show that wherever you are
That is where all time starts
It's pleasure to die, a pleasure to be gone
Into the sky we move on
Life is unchanging
It let me go
Life gave me up
And I have no controoooool
I have no control

Everything goes a way that I do not
I clean up the clouds I ride
I've never been up where I see the others climb
Seems like it must be nice
Laughter's an ugly friend of mine
We share the best and worst of ti-i-imes

Everyone goes where they belong
Nobody goes elsewhere
Never much thought goes to being
Right or wrong
Right or wrong, hey ah


Credits:

Release date: 21st June 2004
Released: Worldwide
Publisher: Record Collection Music
Duration: 42 minutes, 29 seconds
John plays: Guitar, piano, synthesizer and bass on "Far Away", "Unchanging" and "The Will To Death"
Other musicians: As expected, Josh Klinghoffer. He plays drums, bass, keyboards, and guitar on two last songs. He sings some of the backing/harmony vocals as well and he co-wrote "Helical"
Produced by: John Frusciante
Engineered by: Ryan Hewitt
Mixed by: Ryan Hewitt
Assisted by: Rafael Serrano, Jeff Moses
Recorded/mixed at/when: Mad Dog Studios (18-19.12.2003), Larrabee East Studios (8-10.1.2004)
Mastered by/where: Bernie Grundman/Bernie Grundman Mastering Hollywood, CA, USA
Designed by: Mike Piscitelli, John Frusciante
Cover photograph by: Lola Montes
Equipment by: Dave Lee
Management: Q-Prime Inc.

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[boswell255]

The thing I love about John's music is that it chronicles his process of recovery.

From the shy and drug addled (yet still brilliant) Smile From the Streets, through to the lucid Empyrian, you see a man regaining his life from a very very near death experience, and flourishing artistically.

As far as I know this hasn't happened before in music. It's usually (sadly) the other way round.

[lapatlo]

this is cooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[EasilyRiding]

@boswell255 Don't forget about Omar and Cedric.

[dinster70]

such a beautiful song, one of my all-time faves

[daveygabc]

@boswell255 100% agreed :)

[holymetalhypocrite]

i can see this in a movie definately like backround or in ending or during like some romance scene but it would work in any scene really.

i like how he isnt very popular no dumbass comments lol. this song soars

[boswell255]

@andrew19vato I hope so. I'm sure he will. One of his reasons for leaving the Peppers was to concentrate on other projects. I'm sure he's still got plenty of music left to share with us.

[boswell255]

@redhotsuperfan Well said!

[redhotsuperfan]

@boswell255 Well I never thought about that but it's true that If It's not a one kind case, it is at least very rare to see someone going that high on fame, then being thrown to deep mud because of excess and then rise in a almost heroic way through Life realisation/Illumination. People may define John as a weak/fragile person, but I can see in his songs and lyrics that he is the mentally strongest person I could meet, which unfortunately, I don't...

[InsertSexyFakeName]

this is perfection.

[gimeradio]

flawless