I really like the creativity of this cover! Opinions?

Finally we're getting more infos about the new record coming out January 20th in 2009. Nothing makes me more excited than hearing news about this record and this time we even get a tracklist and a little insight on what to expect musically and lyrically! This news was posted on www.redhotchilipeppers.com. Let me quote here!

" Friends and Fans,
The Empyrean is my new record and will be released worldwide via Record Collection on January 20th 2009. It was recorded on and off between December 2006 and March 2008. It is a concept record that tells a single story both musically and lyrically. The story takes place within one person, and there are two characters. It contains a version of Tim Buckleys, 'Song To The Siren' and the rest of the songs are written by me. My friend Josh plays on it, as does Flea. It also features Sonus Quartet, Johnny Marr and The New Dimension Singers. I'm really happy with it and I've listened to it a lot for the psychedelic experience it provides. It should be played as loud as possible and it is suited to dark living rooms late at night.

- John Frusciante, November 3rd, 2008 "

And the 'The Empyrean' Track listing:
1. Before The Beginning
2. Song To The Siren
3. Unreachable
4. God
5. Dark/Light
6. Heaven
7. Enough Of Me
8. Central
9. One More Of Me
10. After The Ending

The song titles and what we can expect really excites me and makes me extremly curious. Is it January yet? Because I sure as hell cannot wait for that album to come out and be in my player!!

Happy John day! :)

John's official site www.johnfrusciante.com was down for quite some time and for a while now there were little changes. But one saw that the site had the form and appearance of a blog. And well now we know that in fact it is a blog and John himself will be writing there! He made the first entry today!

I'm quoting the first part of a very long entry that you all should go and read :)

"Hello. This is John. I’m going to keep this blog as a place to write things for people who listen to my music. I’ll just write whatever I feel like saying whenever I feel like doing it. I don’t like the old media channels and this is a way of communicating to people without the filter of magazines and the other bullshit that has nothing to do with music. "

also note on the right site the link to 'the empyrean' :) when clicking you'll land at record collection but still this gets me very excited!
Go check it out!