Steve Vai - Inviolate (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Steve Vai and Favored Nations / Mascot Label Group have announced his new studio album titled Inviolate will be released digitally and on CD January 28, 2022.

The recording is a dark-toned fusion-funk workout played almost exclusively on a Gretsch hollow body guitar. As for what led Vai to the unusual (at least for him) model, he says, “It’s on the wall with all the other guitars, and I’d always just look at it and go, ‘One day I’m going to play you…’” He continues, “In writing the chord changes for the solo section, and the solo itself, I dug deep into my academic music theory mind to create a set of chord changes where the harmonic atmosphere shifted on every change. The dense chord structures required a series of synthetic modes to navigate. This approach is along the lines of jazz and fusion players, but I knew I did not want it to sound anything like that and the solo had to be totally melodic. The results were pretty powerful in that the entire solo section evokes melodic atmospheric changes that shift dramatically but work together well.”

TRACKLIST

1. Teeth of the Hydra (05:12)
2. Zeus in Chains (04:38)
3. Little Pretty (06:25)
4. Candlepower (03:30)
5. Apollo In Color (04:18)
6. Avalancha (05:09)
7. Greenish Blues (06:06)
8. Knappsack (05:18)
9. Sandman Cloud Mist (06:00)



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