Island of Lost Minds is the eleventh studio album by Buckethead

Buckethead

Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

, as well as his first tour only album. The album was originally only sold on tour but now widely available through TDRS Music

TDRS Music

Travis Dickerson Recording Studios Music is a label founded by musician and producer Travis Dickerson. The label is characterized by the way it sells records...

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The album is very experimental, in that, it displays Buckethead's wide usage of pinch harmonics, pick scraping, tremolo picking

Tremolo picking

Tremolo picking, also known as alternate picking or double picking, describes the musical technique of picking on a guitar or other string instrument in which a single note is played repeatedly in quick succession. It can be achieved either with the fingers or with a pick...

, extremely high fret

Fret

A fret is a raised portion on the neck of a stringed instrument, that extends generally across the full width of the neck. On most modern western instruments, frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard...

 picking, vibrato

Vibrato

Vibrato is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. Vibrato is typically characterised in terms of two factors: the amount of pitch variation and the speed with which the pitch is varied .-Vibrato and...

 and other atonal sound effects.

Track listing

Credits

• Drums: Del Rey Brewer
  Dan Monti
  Dan Monti, also known by his stage name Del Rey Brewer, is a musician, composer, producer and engineer who has worked with such bands as Metallica, Slayer and Guns 'n' Roses...
  
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• Produced, recorded and mixed by Dan Monti
  Dan Monti
  Dan Monti, also known by his stage name Del Rey Brewer, is a musician, composer, producer and engineer who has worked with such bands as Metallica, Slayer and Guns 'n' Roses...
  
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• Recorded at Buckethead's coop and the Del Rey brewer factory.
• Special thanks to the Towel for support.
• Artwork by Bryan Theiss for Frankenseuss lobotomy drill repair.