Is There Love in Space - Joe Satriani

Satriani is a Guitar God.

I had a chance to catch his concert last week in Bombay.

A sheer genius, the guitar fluidity and stamina leaves one spellbound.

His ninth album ’’Is There Love In Space ? ’’ is Satriani’s return to basics, throwing away the electronic sounds he experimented in previous releases. This one is his return to roots reminding one of his early work in Surfing with the Alien and Crystal Planet, the approach here is more rock oriented with solid riffs and melodic tones.

Is There Love In Space ? is largely instrumental as expected , some vocals on ’’Lifestyle’’ and ’’I Like The Rain.’’.

Many people feel that such albums are mostly for people who are guitarists but my friend who listens to mostly Hindi film music loved this album.

The only catch here is that you really have to listen to this album carefully to understand , the music starts making sense...everything falls into place.

The level of guitar work, speed, technicality, intensity, melody is high quality stuff as

always.

The title track ’’Is There Love In Space ?’’ does have a spacey hollow feel to it with over use of wah wah and tremelo.

The opening track oddly titled ’’Gnaahh’’ is real funky.

’’Souls of Distortion’’ has a nice solid riff.

’’Just Look Up’’ and ’’If I Could Fly’’ have a nice warm feel to them.

’’Searching’’ is a real chunky heavy track.

1. Gnaahh

   
   




2. Up in Flames

   
   




3. Hands in the Air

   
   




4. Lifestyle

   
   




5. Is There Love in Space?

   
   




6. If I Could Fly

   
   




7. Souls of Distortion

   
   




8. Just Look Up

   
   




9. I Like the Rain

   
   




10. Searching

    
    




11. Bamboo

    
    

Overall ’’Is There Love In Space” is an awesome, creative and technically brilliant CD from one of the best rock guitarist alive.

This one is highly recommended by me to music lovers of any genre.