Electric Sea
Electric Sea is the thirty-fifth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. It is the sequel to his 2002 release Electric Tears.
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| Released | February 21, 2012 | |||
| Studio | Santa Barbara Sound Design | |||
| Genre | Ambient,[1] classical, folk | |||
| Length | 48:05 | |||
| Label | Metastation MT 0025 | |||
| Producer | Buckethead Janet Rienstra-Friesen | |||
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| Allmusic | Not rated[1] |
The album was announced on December 20, 2011 via City Hall Records, and contains 11 tracks.[2] The album was scheduled to be released on February 21, 2012 but fans started receiving their copies more than a month early.
"Beyond the Knowing" is a re-working of "What Kind of Nation" and is recognized as the oldest song on the album as Buckethead's earliest known performances of it date back to 2001 on-stage with Guns N' Roses.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Buckethead, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Electric Sea" | 6:26 |
| 2. | "Beyond the Knowing" | 3:54 |
| 3. | "Swomee Swan" | 4:43 |
| 4. | "Point Doom" | 5:15 |
| 5. | "El Indio" | 7:20 |
| 6. | "La Wally" (Alfredo Catalani) | 3:46 |
| 7. | "La Gavotte" (Johann Sebastian Bach) | 2:53 |
| 8. | "Bachethead" (Bach) | 2:05 |
| 9. | "Yokohama" | 2:52 |
| 10. | "Gateless Gate" | 1:58 |
| 11. | "The Homing Beacon" | 6:53 |
| Total length: | 48:05 | |
Credits
- Produced by Buckethead and Janet Rienstra-Friesen
- Written, Composed and Arranged by Buckethead
- Production assistance by Dom Camardella
- Engineered, edited and mixed by Dom Camardella at Santa Barbara Sound Design.
- Mastered by Robert Hadley at the Mastering Lab in Ojai, CA
- Art & Design by Russell Mills
- Design assistance: Michael Webster (storm)
- Cover photograph: Breaking Ocean Wave, Baja California Sur, Mexico, by Mark A. Johnson.
- Meta Support: Bella Rienstra
- Made by Meta: Janet Rienstra -Friesen
- Publishing: (Katella Music/BMI) all by Buckethead, except for La Gavotte and Bachethead composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and La Wally (act 1) composed by Alfredo Catalani
- Buckethead thanks: My parents, Michael Jackson, Theo, Uma, Janet, and Lakshmi chicken
Notes
- "Beyond the Knowing" is an instrumental re-release of "What Kind Of Nation" from the album Intelligence Failure, a collaboration with Viggo Mortensen.
- "La Wally" is a composition by Alfredo Catalani.
- "La Gavotte" and "Bachethead" are movements (Gavotte I & II) from Suite No. 6 for solo Cello (BWV 1012) by Johann Sebastian Bach.
- "The Homing Beacon", was originally released exclusively on Buckethead's official website in 2009 without an album. It is a tribute by Buckethead to Michael Jackson after hearing the news of his death.[3]
References
- "Electric Sea - Buckethead - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
- Demmers, Mike. "Cityhall:Electric Sea". www.cityhallrecords.com.
- Chashmere, Paul (7 July 2009). "Buckethead Releases Song for Michael Jackson". undercover.com.au. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
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