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Music Reviews

by Nicholas LoFaro

February 03, 2005

John Frusciante, "Curtains"/New Folk Music From Chili Peppers Guitarist


John Frusciante was with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the early '90s and carried them through their albums "Californication" and "By The Way" after Dave Navarro left the band after 1995's "One Hot Minute."


After almost dying from drug addiction in the starting days of the RHCP, Frusciante left the band and went off to recovery. His brush with death and his struggles with personal ambivalence and relationships have given him enough force to create solid and recognizable music, both with RHCP and as a solo artist.


For fans of his past two solo albums - "To Record Only Water for Ten Days" and "Shadows Collide With People" - "Curtains" will meet expectations, but for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers who have never heard Frusciante alone, don't expect the sounds you'd hear on a Chili Peppers album. Frusciante as a solo artist is almost entirely folk-oriented, and the funk and fusion, as well as the hard rock, elements of the Chili Peppers are absent from the guitarist's work.

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