Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)

Features: Buckethead, Brain, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins...

# Original Release Date: 1992
# Label: Island Records

Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) is the first album by Bill Laswell's everchanging "supergroup" Praxis. This first album features Buckethead on guitar, Bootsy Collins on bass and vocals, Brain on drums, Bernie Worrell on keyboards and DJ AF Next Man Flip on turntables and mixer.

Transmutation features a wide range of musical styles, all mixed together to make a very diverse and unique album. Styles such as heavy metal, funk, hip hop, ambient, jazz and blues are blended together to form a strange style of avant-garde, with extended guitar and keyboard solos, and highly improvised passages.

1)   Blast / War Machine Dub (3:51)
2)   Interface / Stimulation Loop (2:16)
3)  Crash Victim / Black Science Navigator (3:38)
4)   Animal Behavior (7:08)
5)   Dead Man Walking (5:12)
6)   Seven Laws Of Woo (5:00)
7)   The Interworld And The New Innocence (6:27)
8)   Giant Robot / Machines In The Modern City / Godzilla (6:36)
9)   After Shock (Chaos Never Died) (16:06)

Bootsy Collins - space bass, vocals. Buckethead - guitar, toys. Brain - drums. Bernie Worrell - synthesizer, clavinet & vital organ. AF Next Man Flip (Lord of the Paradox) - turntable, mixer

Buckethead - Inbred Mountain

Features: Buckethead

# Original Release Date: 2005
# Label: TDRS Music

Inbred Mountain is Buckethead's sixteenth studio album. Previously only sold on tour. The album hit the fanbase unprepared and is hailed as one of his crown achievements. Buckethead presents a strange but epic journey up and down the 'Inbred Mountain'.

1) In Search Of Inbred Mountain (3:26)
2) Johnny Be Slunk (8:42)
3) Lotus Island (6:33)
4) Flock Of Slunks (4:30)
5) Advance To The Summit (6:03)
6) Plastination Station (5:47)
7) Escape From Inbred Mountain (8:20)

Produced, Recorded, Mixed by
Dan Monti

Written, Composed by
Buckethead 
Del Rey Brewer

Buckethead - Electric Tears

Features: Buckethead

# Original Release Date: 2002
# Label: Meta Records

Electric Tears is Buckethead's ninth studio album. It is considered one of his most calming albums to date and features Buckethead on acoustic and electric guitars only, no additional instruments are present.

1) All In The Waiting (3:41)
2) Sketches Of Spain (For Miles) (4:03)
3) Padmanasa (11:36)
4) Mustang (5:36)
5) The Way To Heaven (5:48)
6) Baptism Of Solitude (6:07)
7) Kansas Storm (5:31)
8) Datura (5:36)
9) Mantaray (4:08)
10) Witches On The Heath (2:38)
11) Angel Monster (5:05)
12) Electric Tears (5:29)
13) Spell Of The Gypsies (5:10)

Produced by
Buckethead, and Janet Rienstra.

Written, composed, and arranged by
Buckethead
(except for "Sketches of Spian" written by Joaquin Rodrigo)

Production assistance by
Dom Camardella

Assisted by
Adam Camardella at Santa Barbara Sound Design

Mastered by
Robert Hadley and Dom Camardella at the Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, CA

Art and Design
Russell Mills (shed), Design Assistance: Michael Webster (storm)

Meta Support
Bella Rienstra, concept by Janet Rienstra

Publishing
Katella Music/BMI

Buckethead - Colma

Features: Buckethead, Brain, Bill Laswell, Terry Untalen

# Original Release Date: 1998
# Label: CyberOctave

Colma is Buckethead's fourth studio album, released March 24, 1998, by CyberOctave records. The album was recorded for Buckethead's mother as she was ill with colon cancer and he wanted to make an album she would enjoy listening to whilst recovering.

The title of the album makes reference to the small town of Colma near San Francisco, California, where "the dead population outnumber the living by thousands to one".

1) Whitewash (4:42)
2) For Mom (5:08)
3) Ghost (5:26)
4) Hills Of Eternity (5:04)
5) Big Sur Moon (1:11)
6) Machete (6:15)
7) Wishing well (4:00)
8) Lone Sal Bug (5:29)
9) Sanctum (3:39)
10) Wondering (2:13)
11) Watching The Boats with My Dad (5:04)
12) Ghost/Part 2 (2:29)
13) Colma (3:10)

Buckethead - Guitars and bass. Brain - Drums and loops.

DJ Disk - Scratches on "Machete", "Hills of Eternity" and "Lone Sal Bug".
Bill Laswell - Bass on "Machete".
Terry Untalan - Cello and viola on "Wondering" and "Lone Sal Bug".

Produced by
Buckethead
Xtrakd
Bill Laswell

Buckethead - Bucketheadland

Features: Buckethead

# Original Release Date: 1992
# Label: Avant

Bucketheadland is Buckethead's first studio album, released on John Zorn's Japanese record label Avant in 1992 (see 1992 in music). Featuring many samples of the Japanese TV Show Giant Robot amongst guitar riffs by Buckethead. The concept of the album is a tour around the construction of the fictional 'abusement' park "Bucketheadland". Because of this, the album has been split into distinct sections of the areas of the park.

A01   Intro: Park Theme (3:21)
Giant Robot
A02   Interlude (0:27)
A03   Giant Robot Theme (4:16)
A04   Enter Guillatine (0:32)
A05   Giant Robot Vs. Guillatine (4:02)
Bucketbots Jig
A06   Bucketbots Jig (0:28)
A07   Enter Slipdisc (1:53)
A08   Bansheebot Vs. Buckethead (0:58)
Slaughter Zone
A09   The Haunted Farm (2:42)
A10   Hook & Pole Gang (1:07)
A11   Cattle Prod (0:40)
A12   Phantom Monk (1:45)
A13   The Rack (0:29)
A14   Nosin' (1:21)
A15   Gorey Head Stump (1:31)
A16   Sterling Scapula (0:48)
A17   Skid's Looking Where (1:08)
A18   Steel Wedge (1:22)
A19   Wonka In Slaughter Zone (1:30)
A20   Nosin' Part 2 (0:40)
A21   Diabolical Minds (1:32)
A22   Alice In Slaughterland (1:16)
A23   Bleeding Walls (0:21)
A24   Buddy On A Slab (1:12)
A25   Buddy In The Graveyard (1:02)
A26   Oh Jeez... (1:21)
A27   Funeral Time (1:39)
Computer Master
A28   Computer Master (8:15)
Virtual Reality
A29   Virtual Reality Part 1 (2:01)
A30   Virtual Reality Part 2 (1:34)
Home Run Derby
A31   Interlude (0:33)
A32   Main Theme (4:45)
I Love My Parents
A33   I Love My Parents (1:38)
Disc 2 (Remixes)
B01   Intro: Park Theme Extension (5:43)
B02   Guillatine Battle (0:52)
B03   Giant Robot Theme (1:45)
B04   Robot Dance (1:02)
B05   Virtual Reality (3:04)
B06   Bansheebot Bop (1:02)
B07   Baseball Buddy (3:17)

Notable Guests: Travis Dickerson | Serj Tankian | Efrem Schulz | Saul Williams | Gigi | Maura Davis | Azam Ali | Brain | Pinchface | Bootsy Collins | Extrakd | Les Claypool | Bill Laswell | DJ Disk | Maximum Bob

Recorded at
Bootzilla Studios

Engineered by
Casper and Herbie

Mastered by
Howie Weinberg

Produced by
Bootsy Collins

Executive producers
John Zorn
Disk Union

Associate producer
Kazunori Sugiyama

All photos by
Thi-Linh Le

Designed by
Tomoyo TL

Photo-Typesetting by
Strong Silent Type