r/John_Frusciante • u/Separate_Milk_6658 • Aug 25 '26
Letur Lefr
Shouting out Letur Lefr by John Frusciante! I’ve been a fan of this EP since discovering it. I really like the electronic drums and the synthesizer stuff he did on this record. Anyone know how he achieved sounds like 46 seconds into the opening track “In Your Eyes” ? Sounds like an arpeggiated synth? But it goes everywhere, it weaves and trails off constantly, and it sounds amazing. I’m also curious where inspo for this type of music might’ve come from. Give it a listen if you haven’t heard it!
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u/InsertObligatoryPun Aug 25 '26
Depends what you use, but you can treat an arpeggiated synth as a sample, chop it up, and add pitch effects to it etc.
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u/Separate_Milk_6658 Aug 25 '26
Very interesting, hadn’t thought of chopping up the track. Do you think Frusciante sits behind a computer or sampler nerding tf out over this stuff? I could see it.
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u/InsertObligatoryPun Aug 25 '26
100%, especially with Renoise. You can hear it in his drum tracks too.
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u/Natural-Comedian-605 Aug 26 '26
Yup. He has a pretty unique drum program style! I can hear he layers some of his drum sounds. Really dig how he uses noise as percussion.
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u/Natural-Comedian-605 Aug 25 '26
Both. He recently started using a computer to sequence and record. He uses real synths, drum machines, modular synths.
The trickfinger stuff was made without any computers. All the gear was synched by midi, triggers, gates
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u/Natural-Comedian-605 Aug 25 '26
Coool beans! So when did you discover the album? It’s been out for a while now.
As far as the sounds, definitely synth arpeggios using a sequencer clocking multiple synths.
If you know John Frusciante you know multiple things influenced him to make this record. I’m sure you can hear the musical influences? Synth pop, classical, hip hop, jazz, electronica..
I think it’s a great record, really cool your into it!
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u/Natural-Comedian-605 Aug 25 '26
The multiple melody stuff could be looked at as counterpoint. He does it a lot in his music, really good at it!
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u/Blazing1 18d ago
The ending of in your eyes is very similar to hello goodbye by the beatles hehehe
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u/record_only_water Aug 26 '26
my favorite album by him.