Joe Satriani – Time Machine (1993/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:52 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic
Time Machine is an excellent album providing something for just about everyone who’s interested in Joe Satriani’s music. It was recorded between 1984 and 193 at various locations and was produced by Joe Satriani, John Cuniberti, and andy Johns. The album peaked at #95 on the U.S. Billboard 200, eventually being certified Gold by the RIAA in 1994. Analog recording, analog 30ips 1/2″ mix, transferred and mastered to digital at 96/24 by John Cuniberti.
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Joe Satriani – Strange Beautiful Music (2002)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 59:40 minutes | Scans included | 3,83 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 59:32 mins | Scans | 1,14 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
What’s a guitar hero to do now that the masses prefer electronic beats and rap-metal to killer scale runs? Joe Satriani seeks that answer on Strange Beautiful Music. Satriani set himself apart from other would-be kings of the six-string in the 1980s by combining impeccable technique with great feel and pop hooks. With those qualities, he produced great guitar-driven albums like Surfing With the Alien and Flying in a Blue Dream. On his 2002 release, Satriani tries to make his music fresh by incorporating world music influences and a bit of techno flava. To his credit, he succeeds more than he fails. “Belly Dancer” combines straight-up rock riffs with Middle Eastern-twinged melodies and faster-than-sound runs up and down the fretboard. On “Oriental Melody,” Satch’s world music sensibility shines with the help of ping-pong delay and keyboards. He still has a knack for great hooks, too, as is evident on “New Last Jam,” which features a melody that bounces around in your head for days. But none of these tracks approach the pop brilliance of his Surfing With the Alien songs. In many ways, the experimental nature of songs like “What Breaks a Heart” hark back to his Not of This Earth release. But Strange Beautiful Music suffers from inconsistency. While the mix-and-match approach works on “Belly Dancer,” it can also result in the bland discontinuity of “Chords of Life,” which at times sounds like “All Along the Watchtower” and at others resembles scale and chord exercises from Yngwie Malmsteen — not an enticing combo. And “Starry Night,” while a nice ballad, feels like an attempt to rewrite his masterful ballad “Always With You, Always With Me”.
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Joe Satriani – Engines Of Creation (2000)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:30 minutes | Scans included | 2,16 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,02 GB
With Crystal Planet, Joe Satriani made an effective return to his signature sound following the erratic blues-rock detour of Joe Satriani. For the follow-up to Crystal Planet, Satriani is once again exploring novel territory in an effort to keep his music fresh, and Engines of Creation is the biggest stylistic shift he’s made yet — to electronic music. Satriani’s guitar is still the focal point of the music, to be sure, but while his virtuosity is obvious, it’s often submerged in the new demands of this musical idiom. That isn’t a surprise either, given that Satriani is one of the few guitar shredders whose taste and musicality have never been in question. But fans who simply want to hear him rip through his typical jaw-dropping solos may be disappointed (even though, in the end, there are more than a few solos), as will those guitar fans who reflexively disdain all sounds electronic. Having defended it, though, Engines of Creation isn’t a total success. While the music is certainly influenced by techno and electronica, it probably won’t appeal to listeners coming from those arenas; overall, it simply isn’t as adventurous as much genuine electronica, avoiding complex backing rhythms or edgy sonic textures; nor is it as hypnotic, meandering or drifting aimlessly at times instead of moving into trancelike states of consciousness. Plus, Satriani’s songs are often more traditional than they may seem upon first listen; many of the compositions are based on repeated themes and riffs and standard rock-song structures, switching between recurring, identifiable sections rather than gradually building and unfolding. However, the album can also be quite inventive. Satriani has challenged himself to find ways of coaxing totally new sounds from his guitar, and he weaves them seamlessly into the futuristic electronic soundscapes. Moreover, his melodies and main themes have rarely been this angular and off-kilter, meaning that exploring this music has indeed helped Satriani refresh and re-imagine his signature sound. Even the pieces that aren’t ultimately that revolutionary are still intriguing, since very few musicians have the technical training and innate sense of musicality required to mine this territory. Overall, Engines of Creation is a brave and sporadically successful experiment, and it’s also a promising new direction for Satriani should he choose to continue this vein of exploration and take it out even farther.
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Squares, Joe Satriani – Squares (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:28 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
A collection of previously unreleased demos by Joe Satriani’s first band, THE SQUARES, will be made available on July 12 via his own Strange Beautiful Music imprint.
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Joe Satriani – Unstoppable Momentum (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:02 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic
In 2013, over a quarter century removed from his first album, Joe Satriani uses his solo albums as a way to stretch himself, both to flaunt his skills and perhaps to move him into areas where he’s not quite comfortable. Unstoppable Momentum, his first album since 2010’s boogie- and prog-heavy Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards, finds the guitarist occasionally indulging himself in a bit of swing, letting him ride an elastic beat (“Three Sheets to the Wind” has a supremely delicate touch), and he also digs into a bit of a nasty ZZ Top groove on “Jumpin’ In,” a boogie he turns inside-out on its immediate successor “Jumpin’ Out.” This is a pretty good indication that this is the work of a virtuoso who enjoys playing with his surroundings, tweaking tempos and arrangements to coax out unexpected wrinkles. Compared to Black Swans, this is livelier and fuller, containing a greater variety of textures, rhythms, and attacks, spending not quite so much time with head-down, barrel-headed boogie and rather suggesting jazz, blues, even soul. Satriani often seems a little too restless for his confines — he seems to enjoy when the tempo slows, so he can get a little lyrical — but part of the appeal of Unstoppable Momentum is how Satch decides he should abandon his comfort zone, at least in part. He still adheres too strongly to the heavily phased instrumentals that make him feel stuck in a past before MTV, but he’ll also indulge in a bit of swing, rhythm, and momentum that not only give Unstoppable Momentum character, but suggest there’s an audience outside of guitar fanatics for this densely layered instrumental music. –Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Joe Satriani – The Extremist (1992/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:50 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
The Extremist is Joe Satriani’s fourth studio album and was originally released on July 17, 1992. The album garnered Satriani his fourth Grammy nomination, once again for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The Extremist peaked at #22 on the US Billboard 200, remaining on the chart for 28 weeks. Three singles charted on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart: “Friends” (#12); “Summer Song” (#5); and “Cryin’” (#24).
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Joe Satriani – Surfing with the Alien (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1987/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:08 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
From its original release in 1987, Surfing With The Alien established Joe Satriani as one of the definitive guitarists of his generation thanks to unforgettable songs like “Satch Boogie” and “Always With Me, Always With You.” More than 30 years after Surfing With The Alien went platinum, earned two Grammy Award nominations and camped out on the Billboard 200 for over a year, the remastered original album is paired on vinyl with a unique presentation of the album without its signature guitar leads—a chance for seasoned fans and aspiring shredders to appreciate what makes this album a must hear for guitar players the world over.
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Joe Satriani – Surfing With The Alien (1987/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:40 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Epic
Surfing with the Alien is Joe Satriani’s second album and one of his most successful albums to date. Originally released in 1987, it peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200 chart and stayed on the chart for 75 weeks. The album was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Pop Instrumental Performance Grammy awards in 1989, and was certified platinum in February 1992, Satriani’s only release to do so. Remastered by John Cuniberti, analog mixes are 30ips 1/2″ tape, transferred and mastered to digital at 96/24.
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Joe Satriani – Super Colossal (2006/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:02 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
„Super Colossal“ is the 12th studio album from guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani. The master shredder still traffics in arena-sized hard rock instrumentals that provide plenty of room for his melodic, technically dazzling solos. But Satch mixes things up, too, with sunny, country-tinged riffs (‘It’s So Good’), atmospheric jams (‘Ten Words’), and bittersweet love songs (‘Made of Tears’).
While a record of guitar rock instrumentals might seem in imminent danger of growing stale, Satriani manages to keep things interesting, not only by varying his stylistic approach but by utilizing a wide vocabulary of guitar sounds and effects. And, naturally, guitar players and aficionados of six-string wizardry will find plenty to admire on nearly every track here.
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