Enclosure

Description

Eleventh studio album by the former Red Hot Chilli Peppers member. This album was composed, produced and recorded by John, who also engineered it in his Los Angeles studio. He sees it as a true musical and personal breakthrough, a marriage between elaborate guitar compositions and the electronic expertise he accumulated on his previous albums The Empyrean and PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone. John says that Enclosure is the musical culmination of everything he has been striving toward for the past five years. The guitar will always remain the fundamental instrument, but his new favorite tools are machines such as synths, sequencers, drum machines, samplers and other computers. What attracts him most to these machines is that once he has mastered them, he can immediately draw all kinds of instrumental sounds from them. He is as skilled at programming as he is at guitar; he has learned its language and integrated it into his musician’s instincts. John was inspired by 20th-century composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Jannis Xenakis, and by more recent electro experimentalists like Tom 'Squarepusher' Jenkinson, who is as much a bass virtuoso as a master of programming.