{"id":8407,"date":"2015-09-17T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2015-09-17T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:00:18","slug":"album-mini-review-joe-satriani-shockwave-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/album-mini-review-joe-satriani-shockwave-supernova\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Joe Satriani &#8212; Shockwave Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/satriani_shockwave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center>File next to: <strong>Buckethead<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Vai<\/strong>, <strong>John Petrucci<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00XDCBA42&amp;asins=B00XDCBA42&amp;linkId=S7CIJKGKZSEE74OU&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A big part of what has always made the music of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4573\">Joe Satriani<\/a><\/strong> stand out among contemporaries is the guitarist&#8217;s inerrant sense of melody. While other shredders rely on technique and speed, Satriani employs those qualities in service of rock-solid songwriting. And though he can actually sing (he provided backing vocal on <strong>Crowded House<\/strong>&#8216;s debut album, of all things), Satriani has long since made the decision to let the music do the talking. That his instrumental songs still manage to sounds like they&#8217;re \u201cabout something\u201d is a testament to his skill as composer and arranger. His fleet-fingered, constant soloing is the \u201clead vocal\u201d of his albums, but the arrangements allow the other players&#8217; work room to breathe. There may not be anything on <em>Shockwave Supernova<\/em> quite as timeless as the Grammy-nominated \u201cAlways With Me, Always With You,\u201d but that&#8217;s a near impossible standard to apply. Soaring, expressive guitar work abounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics3\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Buckethead, Steve Vai, John Petrucci A big part of what has always made the music of Joe Satriani stand out among contemporaries is the guitarist&#8217;s inerrant sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[1169],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-joe-satriani","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}