Electric Sea

Studio album by Buckethead

Released

February 21, 2012

Genre

Acoustic, ambient, classical, experimental, art rock, flamenco, surf rock

Length

48:05

Label

Metastation

Producer

Buckethead
Janet Rienstra-Friesea

Buckethead chronology

Look Up There
(2011)

Electric Sea
(2012)

Balloon Cement
(2012)

Electric Sea is the thirty-fifth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. It is the sequel to his 2002 release “Electric Tears”.

The album was announced on December 20, 2011 via City Hall Records, and contains 11 tracks.^[1] The album was scheduled to be released on February 21, 2012 but fans started receiving their copies more than a month early.

Track #2, “Beyond the Knowing” is a re-working of “What Kind of Nation”, and is probably recognised as the oldest song on the album, as Buckethead’s earliest known performances of it date back to 2001 onstage with Guns N' Roses.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Buckethead, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
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" (Johann Sebastian 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-Friesea
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 -Friesea

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

Track #2, “Beyond the Knowing”, is an instrumental re-release of “What Kind of Nation” from the album “Intelligence Failure”, a collaboration with Viggo Mortensen.
Track #6, “La Wally”, is a composition by Alfredo Catalani.
Tracks #7 and #8, “La Gavotte” and “Bachethead”, are movement (Gavotte I &II) from Suite No. 6 for solo Cello (BWV 1012) by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Track #11, “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.

References

↑ Electric Sea page at City Hall Records

Buckethead

Solo discography

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
Electric Sea (2012)

Pikes series

2010	3 Foot Clearance

2011	It's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There

2012	Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book

2013	Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes

2014	Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033-03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills

2015	Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)
Grab Bag #1 (1995)
Grab Bag #2 (1996)
Grab Bag #3 (1998)

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

Bands and projects

Artists	Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen

Bands	Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain (Pieces)

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