Electric Sea
{{Infobox album
| name = Electric Sea
| type = studio
| artist = Buckethead
| cover = Electric Sea.jpg
| alt = Breaking Ocean Wave, Baja California Sur, Mexico, by Mark A. Johnson
| released = {{Start date|2012|2|21}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Santa Barbara Sound Design
| genre = Ambient,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/electric-sea-mw0002291593|title=Electric Sea - Buckethead - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic|website=AllMusic}} classical, folk
| length = 48:05
| label = Metastation
{{small|MT 0025}}
| producer = Buckethead
Janet Rienstra-Friesen
| prev_title = Look Up There
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title = Balloon Cement
| next_year = 2012
}}
{{album ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
| rev2 = Sputnikmusic
| rev2score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/48293/Buckethead-Electric-Sea/|title=Buckethead: Electric Sea Album Review|work=Sputnikmusic|date=February 25, 2012|access-date=February 27, 2024}}
}}
Electric Sea is the thirtieth studio album by guitarist Buckethead. It is the sequel to his 2002 release Electric Tears.
Track listing
{{Tracklist
| all_writing = Buckethead, except where noted
| total_length = 48:05
| title1 = Electric Sea
| length1 = 6:26
| title2 = Beyond the Knowing
| length2 = 3:54
| title3 = Swomee Swan
| length3 = 4:43
| title4 = Point Doom
| length4 = 5:15
| title5 = El Indio
| length5 = 7:20
| title6 = La Wally
| note6 = Alfredo Catalani
| length6 = 3:46
| title7 = La Gavotte
| note7 = Johann Sebastian Bach
| length7 = 2:53
| title8 = Bachethead
| note8 = Bach
| length8 = 2:05
| title9 = Yokohama
| length9 = 2:52
| title10 = Gateless Gate
| length10 = 1:58
| title11 = The Homing Beacon
| length11 = 6:53
}}
Credits
- Produced by Buckethead and Janet Rienstra-Friesen
- Written, Composed and Arranged by Buckethead
- Production assistance by Dom Camardella
- Engineered, edited and mixed by Dom Camardella at Santa Barbara Sound Design.
- Mastered by Robert Hadley at the Mastering Lab in Ojai, CA
- Art & Design by Russell Mills
- Design assistance: Michael Webster (storm)
- Cover photograph: Breaking Ocean Wave, Baja California Sur, Mexico, by Mark A. Johnson.
- Meta Support: Bella Rienstra
- Made by Meta: Janet Rienstra -Friesen
- Publishing: (Katella Music/BMI) all by Buckethead, except for La Gavotte and Bachethead composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and La Wally (act 1) composed by Alfredo Catalani
- Buckethead thanks: My parents, Michael Jackson, Theo, Uma, Janet, and Lakshmi chicken
Notes
- "Beyond the Knowing" is an instrumental re-release of "What Kind Of Nation" from the album Intelligence Failure, a collaboration with Viggo Mortensen.
- "La Wally" is a composition by Alfredo Catalani.
- "La Gavotte" and "Bachethead" are movements (Gavotte I & II) from Suite No. 6 for solo Cello (BWV 1012) by Johann Sebastian Bach.
- "The Homing Beacon", was originally released exclusively on Buckethead's official website in 2009 without an album. It is a tribute by Buckethead to Michael Jackson after hearing the news of his death.{{cite web|url=http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=8717|title=Buckethead Releases Song for Michael Jackson|last=Chashmere|first=Paul|date=7 July 2009|publisher=undercover.com.au|accessdate=26 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018031603/http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=8717|archive-date=18 October 2009|url-status=dead}}