Alien Love Secrets was written as well as recorded inward less than half-dozen weeks equally a stripped-down guitar, bass as well as drums tape alongside minimal keyboards. According to Vai, he had wished to hold a steady output of textile next his 1993 album Sex & Religion, but the recording procedure for the 70+ minutes of his subsequent 1996 album Fire Garden was taking also long. The EP was hence purposely released inward anticipation of Fire Garden. Stylistically Alien Love Secrets marks a homecoming to the to a greater extent than familiar instrumental stone of Vai's 1990 album Passion as well as Warfare, next the highly mixed reception to Sex & Religion.
Notable tracks include "Bad Horsie", which was derived from a riff played past times Vai during the in conclusion scenes of the 1986 cinema Crossroads; "Juice" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 PlayStation video game Formula 1; "Ya-Yo Gakk" is a telephone telephone as well as answer interplay alongside vocal recordings of Vai's immature boy Julian; "Tender Surrender", ane of Vai's virtually pop songs, bases itself closed to a familiar sound, construction as well as tempo equally Jimi Hendrix's "Villanova Junction Blues" from his 1999 alive album Live at Woodstock, although written inward a unlike key; as well as "The Boy from Seattle", which is a tribute to Hendrix written past times Vai.
After the disastrous full-band heavy metallic projection of Sex & Religion, Steve Vai returned to recording solo alongside Alien Love Secrets. It's a moodier, to a greater extent than atmospheric collection than his masterpiece, Passion as well as Warfare, which makes it slightly revelatory. With the novel sonic textures, the guitarist ane time again demonstrates his fluid technique, which manages to never larn completely mechanical.
You tin e'er count on lil’ Stevie Vai to deliver something completely off the wall…except when he’s trying to play it straight.
Compared to Passion as well as Warfare as well as Sex & Religion, Steve plays it remarkably similar a shot on the stripped dorsum mini-album Alien Love Secrets. Remarkably similar a shot for Steve Vai, that is. This is a guy who is known to brand his guitar audio similar anything except a guitar. There’s enough of that hither (check out “Bad Horsie”, which sounds similar some sort of bad horsie at times), but in that place are also actual grooves as well as riffs too. Alien Love Secrets is an instrumental mini-album that doesn’t accept itself also seriously.
Alien Love Secrets volition yet live on incomprehensible to some, but it’s belike Steve’s virtually accessible unloosen overall. Without the layers upon layers of tracks, you lot tin brand it in that place as well as merely listen. If you lot desire more, in that place is a cool DVD release, alongside a video for each runway on the album!
This peculiarly priced, seven-track mini-album could induce got been titled the "Many Moods of Stevie Vai" given its stylistic sweep. "Bad Horsie" is a widescreen, effects-laden monster, "Juice" is a high-speed boogie, "The Boy from Seattle" verges on Metheny territory as well as "Tender Surrender" oozes alongside subtlety as well as taste. All this, addition a thrashing rocker that football game coaches tin motivate the troops with: "Kill the Guy alongside the Ball."
H5N1 actually neat disk that showcases Steve Vai's talent as well as his "not-afraid-to-try-anything" compositional skills.
"Juice" volition brand your caput swim alongside the riffs as well as hooks as well as chops showcase! "The Boy from Seattle" volition run on you lot humming all day. Great add-on to your collection!
Tracks Listing
1. Bad Horsie (5:51)
2. Juice (3:44)
3. Die to Live (3:52)
4. The Boy from Seattle (5:04)
5. Ya-Yo Gakk (2:52)
6. Kill the Guy With the Ball/The God Eaters (7:02)
7. Tender Surrender (5:09)
Total Time 32:14
Line-up / Musicians
- Steve Vai / guitars,bass,programming
- Deen Castronovo / drums
- Tommy Mars / organ
- Julian Vai / vocals
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