Forensic Follies

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Released June 1, 2009 Artist Buckethead Label TDRS Music		Length 42:53 Release date 1 June 2009

Producer Dan "Brewer" Monti & Albert Forensic Follies (2009) Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009) Genres Experimental rock, Avant-garde music Similar Buckethead albums, Experimental rock albums

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Forensic Follies is the twenty-fifth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, and the sixth album to be originally released on tour, first being sold at Buckethead's May 2009 concerts. It was announced on May 26 for a June 1 release.

The album uses a technique known as xenochrony which consist of using parts of older songs and taking them to create another new song.

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Xenochrony pieces

Track 1, "Forensic Follies", contains the intro of "Checkerboard Incision" off Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot and samples from "Robot Checkerboard", off Slaughterhouse on the Prairie.

Track 2, "A-Cycle Light-Ray Cannons", contains samples from "Mecha Gigan" off Crime Slunk Scene.

Track 3, "Splinter in a Slunk's Eye", borrows the drum track of "Korova Binge Bar" from Island of Lost Minds, and contain samples of "Siege Engine" and "Symmetrical Slug" off Albino Slug.

Track 4, "Under Sea Scalp", consists of samples of "Thai Fighter Swarm" and the drum track off Droid Assembly from the album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock.

Track 5, "Whirlwind", contain samples of the song "Dream Darts" from Island of Lost Minds.

Track 6, "Plunger", lends Slaughterhouse on the Prairie track "The Stretching Room's" drum track.

Track 7, "Trunk of the Tree", consists of samples off "Thai Fighter Swarm" from the album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock and the drum track off "In Search of Inbred Mountain" from Inbred Mountain.

Track 8, "Slunk Shrine", features samples from "Mecha Gigan" off Crime Slunk Scene, and uses "Gigan"'s drum track from the album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock.

Track 9, "Open Coffin Jamboree", contains samples of "Korova Binge Bar" from Island of Lost Minds, and the drum track of "Don't Use Roosts if you Raise Broilers" off Slaughterhouse on the Prairie.

Track 10, "(I'll Be) Taking Care of Grampa", contains samples of "The Cuckoo Parade" off Island of Lost Minds.

Track 11, "Three Headed Troll", contains sample of "Dream Darts" off Island of Lost Minds.

Track 12, "Splinter Dissection", features samples of "Thai Fighter Swarm" from The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock, and uses the drum track of "Bruised Eye Sockets", from Island of Lost Minds.

Track 13, "Mannequin Molds", uses samples of "Col. Austin VS Col. Sanders AKA Red Track Suit" from the album Crime Slunk Scene.

Credits

Buckethead - Finger pikes, guitar

Dan Monti - Drum programming and bass

Artwork by Bryan Theiss, Frankenseuss Labs, Seattle

Produced by Dan Monti & Albert

Engineered and mixed by Dan Monti

Songs

1Forensic Follies3:54
2A-Cycle Light-Ray Cannons6:25
3Splinter in a Slunk's Eye5:35

References

Forensic Follies Wikipedia

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