Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:27 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Shockwave Supernova is guitarist Joe Satriani’s fifteenth studio record. The Legacy Recordings album features bassist Bryan Beller, multi-instrumentalist Mike Keneally, and The Aristocrats’ drummer Marco Minnemann. All songs were written and arranged by Joe Satriani.

Joe Satriani may have retained the services of keyboardist Mike Keneally for Shockwave Supernova, the guitarist’s 15th studio album — Keneally has been in Satch’s orbit for a while now — but he chose to invite bassist Bryan Beller and drummer Marco Minnemann (from the inventive instrumental rock band the Aristocrats) to be his rhythm section for the bulk of the record. This slight shakeup reinvigorates Satriani, who already sounded spry on Unstoppable Momentum. Where that record hearkened back to his ’80s heyday, splitting time between arena-friendly riffing and lyrical solos, Shockwave Supernova exists in the heady world of intricate time signatures and elastic instrumental interplay; it is more the child of pre-MTV AOR — a world where Rush and Allan Holdsworth split time on the stereo of MAD Magazine readers. It’s proud egghead music that grooves on its own technical acumen, where Satch and company love to mess with expectations by sliding into a swinging blues groove or dabbling in a bit of bossa nova. What matters, as it always does on a Satriani album, is the instruments, but more so than on his other records, Shockwave Supernova feels like a collaborative record; it’s as fun to hear him play with his band as it is to hear him soar on his own.

Tracklist:

01. Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova (03:49)
02. Joe Satriani – Lost in a Memory (04:12)
03. Joe Satriani – Crazy Joey (03:36)
04. Joe Satriani – In My Pocket (04:12)
05. Joe Satriani – On Peregrine Wings (05:22)
06. Joe Satriani – Cataclysmic (05:02)
07. Joe Satriani – San Francisco Blue (03:19)
08. Joe Satriani – Keep on Movin’ (04:23)
09. Joe Satriani – All of My Life (04:02)
10. Joe Satriani – A Phase I’m Going Through (03:59)
11. Joe Satriani – Scarborough Stomp (03:59)
12. Joe Satriani – Butterfly and Zebra (01:47)
13. Joe Satriani – If There Is No Heaven (05:07)
14. Joe Satriani – Stars Race Across the Sky (04:45)
15. Joe Satriani – Goodbye Supernova (05:46)