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Strange Beautiful Music is an alblum by Joe Satriani in 2002 that was co-produced by John Cuniberti and Eric Caudieux. The track list follows:
1. Oriental Melody (3:53) 2. Belly Dancer (5:00) 3. Starry Night (3:53) 4. Chords of Life (4:12) 5. Mind Storm (4:10) 6. Sleep Walk (2:42) 7. New Last Jam (4:16) 8. Mountain Song (3:28) 9. What Breaks a Heart (5:17) 10. Seven String (4:00) 11. Hill Groove (4:07) 12. The Journey (4:07) 13. The Traveler (5:36) 14. You Saved My Life (5:02)
The cover art consists of a black background with grey radial lines (maybe 2-5 degree separation between) extending from the center with an outlined (by whitish highlight) image of Joe Satriani placed atop of them. He's holding a guitar that I assume I will never be able to afford and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt (with black pants and shoes) that has the letters JS on it. He is also wearing sunglasses. The title at the top reads "Joe Satriani" in large bold italicised letters with "Strange Beautiful Music" below it in all caps. In fact all the text that isn't copyright related is capitalized (and even some of the copyrights are in all caps). Inside of this cd insert you'll find more verbose credits along with a copyright notice and something about manufacturing quality. There are no lyrics to put here because this alblum is instrumental the full way through. If you unfold the insert completely you can see pictures of the fellows who worked on the alblum. It looks like they had fun with these pics :) (only a few look serious-ish). The cd/cd insert/piece of paper behind the tray that holds the cd in the case are all in greyscale. The cd has the letters JS on the "top", the Epic and Compact Disc logos midway down (Epic on the left, CD on the right), and then for the lower portion "Joe Satriani" in bold italics with "Strange Beautiful Music" (normal text) underneath. Copyright things at the very bottom of the disc. If you take the disc out of its cheap plastic tray and look at the paper behind it you'll notice grey radial lines (same as the cd insert's front) eminating from a central point with the letters JS in front of their joining point. This exact same graphic appears on the back of the cd insert mentioned previously. It might also help to note that the letters JS are stylized wherever they appear ("only" four places). On the back of the whole cd case (which is made entirely of clear plastic) you have a bunch of guitars lined up against a wall that alternates concrete and iron plating. this image is segmented into 7 sections with a bit of black background showing betweent them. Each one is 24.5mm tall and 18mm wide. Below them (centered) is the track list, with short credits (also centered) a tad further down, and copyrights (again, centered) at the very bottom with an Epic logo just above them and off to the right side, but not beyond the reach of the copyright text. At the top right is a bar code with the url to Epic Record's website and some numbers. The title on the side of the disc is much the same as the others: artist's name in bold italics followed by the alblum name in normal text. If there was any copy protection on this alblum, it didn't work. I think the music is pretty cool (much better than the cover art, if only because they didn't voice over "Joe Satriani" "Epic Records" "Joe Satriaini" throughout the title), but then again you don't know who I am so it doesn't really matter what i say :)
Joe "Satch" Satriani (born on July 15, 1956, in Westbury, New York and brought up in Carle Place, New York, USA) is an instrumental rock guitarist and teacher, and a recognized virtuoso of the rock guitar.
Satriani reportedly heard the news during a football training session where he immediately confronted his coach and announced that he was quitting to become a guitarist.
Fans of instrumental electric guitar music widely laud him as the most lyrical and soulful of contemporary rock virtuosos, with an eye and an ear for a good tune and, more recently, an emphasis on emotion over technique.