Artist: Various Artisis
Album: Lords Of Karma - Tribute to Joe Satriani / Steve Vai
Year: 2002
Genre: Instrumantal Rock, Guitar Instrumental
Format: 192 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Bruce Kulick - Always With Me, Always With You (5:09)
2. Jake E Lee - Surfing With The Alien (4:13)
3. Jimmy Crespo/Dave Ragsdale - Echo (5:47)
4. Brad Gillis - Summer Song (5:00)
5. Neil Zaza - Friends (4:10)
6. Enuff Znuff - Yankee Ros (4:23)
7. George Lynch - Shy Boy (3:19)
8. Richard Kendrick - The Attitude Song (3:36)
9. Tony Jamflone JR. - Tender Surrender (5:21)
10. Corey Craven - Tobacco Road (2:22)
Lords Of Karma: "A Tribute to Vai/Satriani" features past and present members of KISS, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Dokken, Night Ranger, Enuff Z'nuff, TNT and the Smashing Pumpkins paying tribute to the virtuoso guitar stylings of Mr. Steve Vai and Mr. Joe Satriani. The guitar roster includes Bruce Kulick, Jake E. Lee, Neil Zaza, Brad Gillis and George Lynch, among others. Five carefully chosen tracks from each of Satriani's and Vai's compositions are presented, from a cruncher version of Satriani's "Surfing With The Alien" (Lee) to a blistering take on the Vai/Roth/Sheehan/Bissonette recorded "Shy Boy" (Lynch). Lords Of Karma: "A Tribute to Vai/Satriani" is another heady variation on the music that guitar fans can't seem to get enough of.
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Artist: Shawn Lane
Album: Powerts Of Ten
Year: 1992
Genre: Instrumantal, Fusion, Progressive
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Get You Back (4:43)
2. West Side Boogie (4:42)
3. Not Again (3:54)
4. Esperanto (3:47)
5. Illusions (4:19)
6. Piano Concertino: Transformation of Themes (9:05)
7. Powers of Ten: Suite (13:04)
8. Paris (5:49)
9. Rules of the Game (4:00)
10. Gray Pianos Flying (3:10)
11. Epilogue (For Lisa) (2:45)
A little history for you, Shawn Lane was one of the most extraordinary guitarists the world has never saw, a genius that never got the recognition he deserved. After playing with Black Oak Arkansas at the mere age of 16, Shawn was a regular player amongst bars and clubs in Memphis, Tennessee, where he became something of a "myth" amongst professional guitarists about Shawn's amazing dexterity and speed. Virtuoso’s such as George Lynch, Kirk Hammet, Paul Gilbert, Greg Howe and more saw him live or on tape and said that they couldn't believe what they saw and heard, and apparently guitarist Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top fell of his chair in awe when watching Shawn live! After playing with Jazz icons Frank Gambale and Bret Garsed on MVP’s Centrifugal Funk album, Shawn got on the Warner Bros. Label and released his debut instrumental album Powers of Ten in 1992.
Now if you are a fan of Shawn Lane from seeing videos of him on Youtube (If you haven’t, check it out), chances are you either like/love Jazz or you are guitarist who is interested in seeing what this guy’s music sounded like. Well this album will satisfy any person who fits in either of those two categories, as it is rich in melody to keep the Jazz enthusiast happy and enough warp speed guitar licks for the guitar shredder to shout “NO WAY!” loud enough for everyone to hear.
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Artist: Various Artists
Album: Angelica - Rock And Opera Unite
Year: 1997
Genre: Instrumantal, Classics
Format: VBR 224 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Clif Magness - O Mio Babbino Caro
2. David Foster - Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
3. Clif Magness - Un Bel Di
4. Steve Vai - Der Holle Rache (Queen Of The Night)
5. Clif Magness - Io Son L'Umile Ancella
6. Eric Johnson - Ave Maria
7. Steve Stevens - Caro Nome
8. Julia Bonilla - O Divine Redeemer
9. Rebecca Semrau - O Soave Fanciulla
10. Julia Bonilla - Panis Angelicus
11. Dweezil Zappa - Quando M'En Vo (Mussetta's Waltz)
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Artist: Planet X
Album: Planet X
Year: 1999
Genre: Progressive Instrumental
Format: 192 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Atlantis part 1. "apocalypse 1470 b.c." (6:59)
2. Atlantis part 2. "sea of antiquity" (4:18)
3. Atlantis part 3. "lost island" (5:38)
4. Crab nebulae (4:07)
5. Box (5:05)
6. Money shot (4:26)
7. Day in the sun (4:58)
8. State of delirium (2:48)
9. Space martini (3:47)
10. Brunei babylon (5:39)
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Artist: Buckethead
Album: Forensic Follies
Year: 2009
Genre: Guitar Instrumental, Avant-Garde
Format: 256 kbps mp3
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Tracklist:
1. Forensic Follies (3:54)
2. A-Cycle Light-Ray Cannons (6:24)
3. Splinter in a Slunk's Eye (5:34)
4. Under Sea Scalp (2:52)
5. Whirlwind (3:35)
6. Plunger (3:06)
7. Trunk of the Tree (2:02)
8. Slunk Shrine (2:11)
9. Open Coffin Jamboree (3:16)
10. (I'll Be) Taking Care of Grampa (2:36)
11. Three Headed Troll (2:23)
12. Splinter Dissection (2:12)
13. Mannequin Molds (2:40)
Forensic Follies is the twenty-seventh solo album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, and the sixth album to be originally released on tour, first being sold at Buckethead's May 2009 concerts.
It is another album from the Dan Monti production line, and has a similar sound to the more recent releases.
This album consists mainly of guitar playing over backing tracks from previous albums, e.g. "Slunk Shrine" uses the drum track from "Gigan" off the album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock, while other songs feature sounds from Buckethead's album Slaughterhouse on the Prairie.
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Artist: Variuos Artists
Album: Guitar Battle
Year: 1997
Genre: Guitar Instrumental, Progressive Instrumental
Format: 192 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Train Kept A Rollin'
featuring: Al Pitrelli, George Lynch, Michael Lee Firkins, Reb Beach, Steve Morse.
2. Something
featuring: Al Pitrelli, Brad Gillis, John Petrucci, Michael Lee Firkins, Reb Beach, Steve Morse.
3. Memphis
featuring: Al Pitrelli, Andy Timmons, Brad Gillis, Michael Lee Firkins, Steve Morse.
4. Purple Rain
featuring: Al Pitrelli, Andy Timmons, Brad Gillis, John Petrucci.
5. Mambo King
featuring: Al Pitrelli, Andy Timmons, Brad Gillis, Reb Beach.
6. Birdland
featuring: Al Pitrelli, George Lynch, John Petrucci, Michael Lee Firkins, Reb Beach.
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Artist: Freak Kitchen
Album: Land Of The Freaks
Year: 2009
Genre: Alternative Rock, 'Freak'
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. God Save The Spleen (4:30)
2. Hip Hip Hoorah (4:40)
3. Teargas Jazz (5:41)
4. Sick Death By Hypochondria (3:59)
5. OK (3:46)
6. Honey You're A Nazi (4:21)
7. The Only Way (3:20)
8. Murder Groupie (4:44)
9. The Smell Of Time (3:26)
10. One Last Dance (4:09)
11. Do Not Disturb (3:01)
12. Clean It Up (3:45)
Land of the Freaks, the seventh Freak Kitchen album, shows a band hungry, energetic and determined to break new ground!
With vivid South Indian carnatic influences Mattias, Bjцrn and Chris go where no metal band has gone before, combining breathtaking rhythm structures with top-notch song-writing over tonality unheard of in metal music.
Featuring Radhakrishna on double-violin and V. Selvaganesh on kanjeera, it's a milestone in the band's recording history.
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Artist: Allan Holdsworth
Album: Blues For Tony (live)
Year: 2009
Genre: Instrumental, Jazz, Fusion
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
CD1:
01 - Blues for Tony (11:12)
02 - The Fifth (8:58)
03 - It Must Be Jazz (8:38)
04 - Fred (9:55)
05 - Guitar Intro (3:34)
06 - Pud Wud (9:59)
CD2:
01 - Looking Glass (10:06)
02 - To Jaki George and Thad (4:50)
03 - San Michele (11:30)
04 - Protocosmos (5:45)
05 - Red Alert (5:49)
When drummer Tony Williams died of a heart attack on February 23, 1997, at the relatively young age of 51, it was a tremendous loss for straight-ahead post-bop and hard bop as well as for fusion. Williams had numerous acoustic jazz credentials (including his contributions to Miles Davis' legendary mid-‘60s quartet), and his band Lifetime was one of the most important fusion outfits of the ‘70s. The late drummer's fusion side is what electric guitarist Allan Holdsworth, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip (of Yellowjackets fame), keyboardist Alan Pasqua and drummer Chad Wackerman pay tribute to on Blues for Tony, an excellent two-CD set that was recorded live in 2007. Forming a quartet, the improvisers remember Williams not by trying to sound like a carbon copy of Lifetime, but rather, by celebrating the overall spirit of Williams' fusion output. Holdsworth, in fact, worked with Williams when he replaced John McLaughlin as Lifetime's guitarist in 1975; it was a brief association (Holdsworth left Lifetime the following year), although certainly a noteworthy one. And like Lifetime, this quartet (which performs mostly material by Holdsworth and Pasqua) demonstrates that being influenced by rock and funk and making extensive use of electric instruments doesn't mean that a group cannot maintain a jazz mentality. In fact, Blues for Tony thrives on a jazz mentality. Improvisation and spontaneity prevail, and even though Blues for Tony is by no means straight-ahead acoustic jazz, the quartet's amplified performances can easily be described as "the sound of surprise" (to borrow a term coined by the late jazz critic Whitney Balliett). These performances underscore the fact that--contrary to what myopic jazz purists and bop snobs would have us believe--fusion is not pseudo-jazz. Fusion is authentic jazz, but it's authentic jazz for people who also appreciate rock and funk. Blues for Tony is an album that fusion lovers shouldn't miss.
Review by Alex Henderson
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Artist: Michael Angelo Battio
Album: Hands Without Shadows 2 - Voices
Year: 2009
Genre: Guitar Instrumental, Shred, Metal, Virtuoso
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Dial in that Frequency (0:24)
2. Tribute to Dimebag (7:36)
3. Clapton Is God (6:04)
4. Metallica Rules (8:40)
5. Evh (7:59)
6. Symphony of Destruction (6:43)
7. For Jimi: All Along the Watchtower (5:40)
8. Tribute to Randy 2: You Can't Kill Rock and Roll (3:53)
9. On The Double (3:31)
10. MAB Forum Shreddathon (9:46)
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Artist: Guthrie Govan
Album: Erotic Cakes
Year: 2006
Genre: Guitar Instrumental, Shred, Virtuoso
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Waves (5:08)
2. Erotic Cakes (3:50)
3. Wonderful Slippery Thing (3:20)
4. Ner Ner (7:59)
5. Fives (4:36)
6. Uncle Skunk (5:29)
7. Sevens (5:57)
8. Eric (5:05)
9. Slidey Boy (4:35)
10. Rhode Island Shred (2:18)
11. Hangover (6:32)
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