Shapeshifting (Vinyl LP) Electronic

Shapeshifting (Vinyl LP) ElectronicGuitar great Joe Satriani is moving forward by taking you back. The album finds "Satch" rocking with a band that includes Jane's Addiction bassist Chris Chaney, acclaimed drummer Kenny Aronoff and keyboardist Eric Caudieux. There's also guest turns from Prince's Lisa Coleman playing piano on two tracks, while Christopher Guest provides mandolin on a song. Satriani co produced the Shapeshifting album with Jim Scott. The 13 track disc is headed up by

and Dylanesque cynicism is one of the great blueprints for hard rock

It includes an outstanding Afrika 70 instrumental

David Bowie set aside his pop and singer-songwriter aspirations and headed in a harder-rocking direction

Charted of rumbling raga rock rhythms and breezy flute frequencies

By the time the group recorded Brave New World the following year

but not as good as the fans would have loved to be able to hear

intelligent pop whose great failing may have been being a shade too sophisticated for radio

and this has some of the group's most stunning melodies

I line-up of the band was completed by vocalist/frontman Rod Evans

The album was released in the UK in June 1965

despair and resignation

Music by John Cameron