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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Engines of Creation, Joe Satriani, CD |
 | | On much of ENGINES OF CREATION, Vai lets the beats do the heavy rhythmic work, leaving him free to sculpt and color the songs with his eye-popping guitar playing. |
 | | Throughout ENGINES OF CREATION, Satriani offers a balanced attack, experimenting with ringing chords and gurgling keyboards on "Flavor Crystal 7," contrasting accordion-like guitar sounds with insect-buzz on "Borg Sex," and unraveling romantic melodic passages over a samba beat on "Clouds Race Across the Sky." A miracle of Creation, for sure. |
 | | Overall, Engines of Creation is a brave and sporadically successful experiment, and it's also a promising new direction for Satriani should he choose to continue this vein of exploration and take it out even farther. |
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