Kaleidoscalp

Studio album by Buckethead

Released

November 22, 2005

Genre

Experimental metal, industrial metal, alternative metal

Length

53:31

Label

Tzadik

Producer

Dan Monti and Albert

Buckethead chronology

Enter the Chicken
(2005)

Kaleidoscalp
(2005)

Inbred Mountain
(2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Wilson & Alroy	^[2]

Kaleidoscalp is the fifteenth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead. Some of the songs on the album use instruments and effects that have been circuit bent to create sounds quite unlike anything previously heard on Buckethead albums.

Released on John Zorn's Tzadik label, the album features Zorn as executive producer. The album features the song "The Android of Notre Dame" which is a tribute to Pantera's guitarist Dimebag Darrell who was killed during a concert. The song was first called "Dime" (nickname of Darrell) and was released shortly after the incident on his web page without any cost and later released on the album with tracks of circuit-bent instruments added to it. "The Android of Notre Dame" is also a homage to a collection of Japanese gore films called "Guinea Pig", with one of the films being named the same as the song.

Although very studio-based, a number of these songs have been performed live, where Buckethead improvises and noodles with effects over a drum track.

In January 2009 he released the album Slaughterhouse on the Prairie, which includes a second part to the song "Rack Maintenance".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Buckethead and Dan Monti.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Frankenseuss Laboratories"	4:33
2.	"Stun Pike and the Jack in the Box Head"	4:12
3.	"Music Box Innards"	3:46
4.	"Breakfast Cyborg"	4:22
5.	"The Bronze Bat"	0:38
6.	"The Last Ride of the Bozomobile"	2:03
7.	"Rack Maintenance"	4:35
8.	"The Sticker on Hallucinogens"	1:41
9.	"Pylon Shift"	4:32
10.	"Citadel"	3:29
11.	"The Slunk, the Gutter and the Candlestick Maker"	4:18
12.	"The Android of Notre Dame"	3:39
13.	"She Sells Sea Shells by the Slaughterhouse"	11:43
Total length:		53:31

Notes

The opening track, "Frankenseuss Laboratories", samples a part of the Kyrie movement of György Ligeti's Requiem. As well as the opening computer sounds in John Carpenter's film Dark Star.
Track 11, "The Slunk, The Gutter And The Candlestick Maker", uses the same drum track as the 12th track off Island of Lost Minds, "Viravax".
Track 12, "The Android of Notre Dame", is a tribute song to Dimebag Darrell.^[3] It also shares its name with the 5th entry in the notorious Guinea Pig film series.
Track 13, "She Sells Sea Shells by the Slaughterhouse" ends at 2:40 followed by silence until 7:16 at which point an unnamed hidden track begins and leads to the end of the album.

Credits

Produced by Dan Monti and Albert
Executive Producer: John Zorn
Associate Producer: Kazunori Sugiyama
Recorded at the Slaughterhouse
Programming and mixing by Dan Monti
Mastered by Scott Hull
Cover art: Bryan Theiss

Special thanks to: Zorn, Bill Laswell, Frankenseuss, Dell Rey Brewer, Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain, Family, Friends, Slunks and Chickens.

References

↑ "Allmusic review". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
↑ "Buckethead and Praxis". Warr.org. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
↑ "Buckethead - Kaleidoscalp (album review)". Sputnikmusic. 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2011-06-15.

External links

Download Dime from Bucketheadland at the Wayback Machine (archived March 9, 2007)

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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