Enter the Chicken (album)
From Bucketheadland
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| Name | Enter the Chicken | ||||
| Artist | Buckethead & Friends | ||||
| Type | studio | ||||
| Released | October 25, 2005 April 8, 2008 (Re-issue) | ||||
| Genre(s) | Avant-garde metal, Pop, Ambient, Rap, Instrumental rock | ||||
| Length | 41:24 44:11 (Re-issue) | ||||
| Label(s) | Serjical Strike | ||||
| Producer(s) | Serj Tankian, Dan Monti | ||||
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Enter The Chicken is an album by guitarist Buckethead, his fourteenth solo studio album '. It was released on October 25, 2005 by Serj Tankian's label Serjical Strike. It has 11 songs, two of which are less than twenty seconds long. It contains appearances from such artists as Saul Williams, Maximum Bob, Efrem Schulz and Serj Tankian.
The instrumental "Nottingham lace (song)" (previously released online on http://www.bucketheadland.com) closes the album, and is one of Buckethead's most popular pieces.[citation needed]
A re-issue of this album was released on April 8 of 2008 with an additional song called "Shen Chi".[1]
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- All songs written and performed by Buckethead and Dan Monti, except where noted.
- "Intro" – 0:15
- "We Are One" (Buckethead, Monti, Tankian) – 4:01
- featuring Serj Tankian
- "Botnus" (Buckethead, Monti, Schulz) – 3:24
- featuring Efrem Schulz
- "Three Fingers" (Buckethead, Monti, Williams) – 2:58
- featuring Saul Williams
- "Running from the Light" (Buckethead, Monti, Gigi, Davis) – 4:42
- featuring Gigi and Maura Davis
- "Coma" (Buckethead, Monti, Ali, Tankian) – 5:38
- featuring Azam Ali and Serj Tankian
- "Waiting Hare" (Buckethead, Monti, Tankian) – 5:43
- featuring Shana Halligan and Serj Tankian
- "Interlude" – 0:18
- performed by Donald Conviser
- "Funbus" (Buckethead, Monti, Rogers, Aazami) – 3:25
- featuring Dirk Rogers and Keith Aazami
- "The Hand" (Buckethead, Monti, Maximum Bob, Maldjian) – 4:24
- featuring Maximum Bob and Ani Maldjian
- "Nottingham Lace" – 6:33
- "Shen Chi" - 2:47 (2008 re-issue only)
[edit] Credits
- Tracks #1-7, 9-11 recorded at John Merrick Recorder.
- Track #8 recorded at the Serjical Strike Dungeons.
- Vocals for Tracks #1-4, 6-10 recorded at the Serjical Strike Dungeons.
- Produced by Serj Tankian.
- Engineered, mixed and co-produced by Dan Monti.
- Mixed at the Binge Factory.
- Vocal engineering on Track #5 by Bill Laswell, Cam Dinunzio.
- Additional programming by Dan Monti.
- Mastered by Paul Miner at Buzzbomb Studios.
- A&R coordinating by Serj Tankian and George Tonikian.
- Art direction by Bryan Theiss @ Frankenseuss Laboratories.
- Buckethead's legal representation: Stan Diamond Esq., Diamond and Wilson.
- Shen Chi (track 12) literally means angry in mandarin.
[edit] Trivia
- "We Are One" also appears on disc two of the Masters of Horror Soundtrack.
- "We Are One" is used on the episode "Dance of the Dead" of the horror series Masters of Horror.
- "Three Fingers" appears on the soundtrack of the movie Saw II.
- When inserted into a computer, the track "Shen Chi" is called "Game of Death Theme Song" although it is different than the version previously released via his website.
