Bermuda Triangle (album) explained

Bermuda Triangle
Type:	studio
Artist:	Buckethead
Cover:	Bermudatriangle.jpg
Released:	July 23, 2002
Genre:	Hip hop, funk, ambient, electronic rock, avant-garde music
Length:	49:32
Label:	Catalyst
Producer:	Extrakd
Prev Title:	Funnel Weaver
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	Electric Tears
Next Year:	2002

Bermuda Triangle is the eighth studio album by Buckethead. The album is primarily an electronica-based collaboration with Extrakd, who also produced and mixed the album.^[1]

The album has been described as an "instrumental underground hip-hop/electro-funk fantasia"^[2] and "snippets of blazing metal, washes of delayed patterns, relaxed lines matched with stuttering drums, and vice versa",^[3] dealing with several Bermuda Triangle incidents and other sea/sailor related themes.

The album was recorded on a portable multi-track recorder.^[4]

Track listing

• All tracks written by Buckethead and Extrakd.

Notes

• "Mausoleum Door" includes a sample from the 1979 movie Phantasm.
• "Isle of Dead" includes a sample from the 1975 movie Death Race 2000.
• "911" was recorded on September 11, 2001. Buckethead said: "If the world is going to blow up, I may as well go out soloing."^[5]

Personnel

Performers

• Buckethead - electric guitar, bass guitar (all tracks, except "Sucked Under")
• Extrakd - MPC 3000 bass, SH101 turntable, Roland SP-808

Additional Musicians

• Bobafett - bass guitar (on "Sucked Under"), click track (on "Phantom Lights")
• Brain - drums, percussion (on "Flight 19")

Production

• Produced and mixed by Extrakd.
• Recorded at Davey Jones' Locker.
• Graphics by P-Sticks and Flavor Innovator.com.
• Executive producer Pale Ryder/Snow Peas.

Thank yous

• Extrakd thanks:
  • Buckethead, J Free, Brain, D Styles, House, Dr. Ware, M.I.R.V., Barney, P-Sticks, Bobafett, EDDIE DEF, Catalyst, Gonervill.
• Buckethead thanks:
  • My family, Big D, Bill Walton, Brain, Extrakd, P-Sticks, Jon Freeman, Ed Shakey, Maximum Bob, Dr. Arlo Gordin.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Matthew Moyer . Ink 19 music review, March 2003 . Ink19.com . 2011-11-10 . 2012-02-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120213010520/http://www.ink19.com/issues/march2003/musicReviews/musicB/buckethead.html . dead .
2. Web site: Guns N' Roses' Buckethead To Issue Solo CD - Sep. 4, 2002 . Roadrunnerrecords.com . 2011-11-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060427140931/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=5879 . 2006-04-27 .
3. Web site: Buckethead . Lollipop.com . 2011-11-10 . 2011-09-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212347/http://www.lollipop.com/article.php3?content=issue62/buckethead.html . dead .
4. Web site: Guitar Nine Records - In Review . Guitar9.com . 2011-11-10.
5. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Web site: What Buckethead did September 11th 2001 . YouTube.