Back in 2004 Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist, John Frusciante, along with bassist Joe Lally of Fugazi and drummer Josh Klinghoffer, released an album called AW (Automatic Writing). The name they gave to the band was “Ataxia”, which in Greek means “disorder”. These next words were taken from Frusciante’s website, where he talks about the Ataxia sessions:
“We played two shows and recorded two records. The first record was released in August 2004. It was named after the surrealist activity called Automatic Writing. That was where people like Andre Breton and Max Ernst would write words in the form of sentences and paragraphs, but with absolutely no conscious attempt at meaning. They would observe the structure of their subconscious and it’s peculiar methods of organization (or the lack thereof) this way. And if there is one sure answer I can give to the question, ‘How did you write and record two albums in a week and a half?’, it is that we gave absolutely no thought to what we were doing, whatsoever. This music is unblemished by any expectations of a specific result, on our part. The three of us simply got together to hear what music had to say that week. We had fun together and this is the record of that fun”.
The second half of these 2004 sessions, which includes five tracks, will be out in a couple of days, on May 29th.