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Track listing:
Time Machine - Disc 1 (Studio)
1) Time Machine
2) The Mighty Turtle Head
3) All Alone
4) Banana Mango II
5) Thinking of You
6) Crazy
7) Speed of Light
8) Baroque
9) Dweller on the Threshold
10) Banana Mango
11) Dreaming #11
12) I am Become Death
13) Saying Goodbye
14) Woodstock Jam
Time Machine - Disc 2 (Live)
1) Satch Boogie
2) Summer Song
3) Flying In A Blue Dream
4) Cryin'
5) The Crush Of Love
6) Tears In The Rain
7) Always With Me, Always With You
8) Big Bad Moon
9) Surfing With The Alien
10) Rubina
11) Circles
12) Drum Solo
13) Lords Of Karma
14) Echo
A curious collection of rarities, outtakes, new recordings, and live material, "Time Machine" is an intriguing mix and a worthwhile investment. It is divided into two discs, a studio record and a live record, each stretches over an hour in length.
The studio record contains performances from a number of sessions-- the new material was all recorded in 1993 for this record. The best of these is probably the title track, "Time Machine", a dense, churning, powerful piece filled with tension begging to explode that never quite does. A large portion of material were outtakes from "The Extremist"-- the album was evidentally heavily pared down to keep it fairly lean ("Flying in a Blue Dream" felt a bit long to me at least, so the change of pace was nice). Some of this material is superb, including the "Tears in the Rain"-styled "Baroque" and ballad "Thinking of You", which really shows how far Satriani has come as a lyrical and emotive soloist. From the "Surfing With the Alien" sessions one leftover is yielded, the frantic "Dweller on the Threshold", a moody and explosive piece not dissimilar to material on "Not of This Earth". There's also a handful of rarities-- most crucially the "Joe Satriani EP" which never received wide distribution. While i tlacks much of the polish even of "Not of This Earth", this hastily assembled material has its own charm, and certainly having it is as valuable as the material simply because of its rarity.
Still, for all this nice material, there's quite a bit of throwaway too-- Billie Holliday's "All Alone" gets a reasonable reading, and Satriani never ceases to surprise with his ability to stretch, but its just not too intriguing, "Banana Mango II" (left off "The Extremist") just seems to lack any real energy to it, and the closing "Woodstock Jam" has a lot of interesting ideas, but ultimately doesn't hold together.
The live disc fares much better, with unnervingly brilliant performances from the course of Satriani's career-- there's really not a bad cut on here, and particularly superb readings of "Always With Me, Always With You" and a ferocious "Big Bad Moon" are real highlights. Of extraordinary note is the presence of several extra pieces from the same performance that produced the live tracks on "Dreaming #11".
All in all, its a pretty mixed bag-- the live disc is better than the studio, and I kept waffling back in forth on three or four stars. Recommended for fans, newcomers should start with "Surfing With the Alien".
Рип не мой - содран с юзнета.
Track listing:
Time Machine - Disc 1 (Studio)
1) Time Machine
2) The Mighty Turtle Head
3) All Alone
4) Banana Mango II
5) Thinking of You
6) Crazy
7) Speed of Light
8) Baroque
9) Dweller on the Threshold
10) Banana Mango
11) Dreaming #11
12) I am Become Death
13) Saying Goodbye
14) Woodstock Jam
Time Machine - Disc 2 (Live)
1) Satch Boogie
2) Summer Song
3) Flying In A Blue Dream
4) Cryin'
5) The Crush Of Love
6) Tears In The Rain
7) Always With Me, Always With You
8) Big Bad Moon
9) Surfing With The Alien
10) Rubina
11) Circles
12) Drum Solo
13) Lords Of Karma
14) Echo
A curious collection of rarities, outtakes, new recordings, and live material, "Time Machine" is an intriguing mix and a worthwhile investment. It is divided into two discs, a studio record and a live record, each stretches over an hour in length.
The studio record contains performances from a number of sessions-- the new material was all recorded in 1993 for this record. The best of these is probably the title track, "Time Machine", a dense, churning, powerful piece filled with tension begging to explode that never quite does. A large portion of material were outtakes from "The Extremist"-- the album was evidentally heavily pared down to keep it fairly lean ("Flying in a Blue Dream" felt a bit long to me at least, so the change of pace was nice). Some of this material is superb, including the "Tears in the Rain"-styled "Baroque" and ballad "Thinking of You", which really shows how far Satriani has come as a lyrical and emotive soloist. From the "Surfing With the Alien" sessions one leftover is yielded, the frantic "Dweller on the Threshold", a moody and explosive piece not dissimilar to material on "Not of This Earth". There's also a handful of rarities-- most crucially the "Joe Satriani EP" which never received wide distribution. While i tlacks much of the polish even of "Not of This Earth", this hastily assembled material has its own charm, and certainly having it is as valuable as the material simply because of its rarity.
Still, for all this nice material, there's quite a bit of throwaway too-- Billie Holliday's "All Alone" gets a reasonable reading, and Satriani never ceases to surprise with his ability to stretch, but its just not too intriguing, "Banana Mango II" (left off "The Extremist") just seems to lack any real energy to it, and the closing "Woodstock Jam" has a lot of interesting ideas, but ultimately doesn't hold together.
The live disc fares much better, with unnervingly brilliant performances from the course of Satriani's career-- there's really not a bad cut on here, and particularly superb readings of "Always With Me, Always With You" and a ferocious "Big Bad Moon" are real highlights. Of extraordinary note is the presence of several extra pieces from the same performance that produced the live tracks on "Dreaming #11".
All in all, its a pretty mixed bag-- the live disc is better than the studio, and I kept waffling back in forth on three or four stars. Recommended for fans, newcomers should start with "Surfing With the Alien".
Рип не мой - содран с юзнета.