The Dragons of Eden (album)

The Dragons of Eden

Studio album by Buckethead, Travis Dickerson and Brain
Released	September 17, 2008
Genre	Jazz fusion, progressive rock, funk metal, jazz-funk, experimental rock
Length	47:36
Label	TDRS Music
Producer	Travis Dickerson

The Dragons of Eden is an album made by guitarist Buckethead, producer and keyboardist Travis Dickerson and drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia. It was released September 17, 2008 through Dickerson's label TDRS Music.

The first clues were revealed on September 13 through the forum of the label: a symbol appeared in the "upcoming releases" section, which was linked to a page containing a picture of the symbol and the words "Yan Kàn".

On September 15, the page changed and they added the face of a Dragon to the existing picture. Fans started to speculate about the symbol, which was eventually described as the symbol of Dragon in Chinese. The words below the dragon were later translated as "Coming Soon".

On September 16, the picture changed again and the body of the dragon was added, along with the lower half of the letters of the title of the album.

On September 17, the producer Travis Dickerson, officially announced the album in the forums. According to Travis:

“	The Dragons CD was not supposed to be announced till today after the first tour show where 3 new CDs where offered for sale. It was a little dull around here, so I started what I thought were pretty obscure clues above the posts here on the forum. Of the three new CDs on the tour, two of them will be tour only for the time being. The third one, "The Dragons Of Eden", will be for sale here later today.	”
—Travis Dickerson, ^[1]

The album's title and some of the track names come from the book The Dragons of Eden (1977), written by Carl Sagan.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Cosmic Calendar"	7:31
2.	"The Brain and the Chariot"	5:01
3.	"The Abstractions of Beasts"	5:49
4.	"Tales of Dim Eden"	5:22
5.	"Lovers and Madmen"	5:30
6.	"Future Evolution"	5:31
7.	"Draco"	7:04
8.	"Knowledge Is Destiny"	5:48
Total length:		47:36

Credits

Buckethead- Guitar and bass
Travis Dickerson - Keyboards
Brain - Drums
with Cameron Stone on cello

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Travis Dickerson.

Special thanks to Cameron Stone.

Tracks 2, 5 and 6 written by Travis Dickerson.
Tracks 1 and 8 written by Buckethead.
Tracks 3, 4 and 7 by Travis Dickerson and Buckethead.
All songs published by tdrsmusic, BMI. More information at tdrsmusic.com.

References

↑ Travis on TDRS Forum

External links

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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