Real Illusions: Reflections
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| Studio album by Steve Vai | |||||
| Released | February 22, 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Instrumental Rock Progressive metal |
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| Length | 55:10 | ||||
| Label | Epic/Red Ink | ||||
| Producer | Steve Vai | ||||
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Real Illusions: Reflections is the first studio album since Steve Vai's 1999 studio release The Ultra Zone. The album was released on February 22, 2005. It is the first piece of a three part concept album about a town visited by the godsent Pamposh and his construction of the Church.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Steve Vai.
- "Building the Church" – 4:58
- "Dying for Your Love" – 4:50
- "Glorious" – 4:35
- "K'm-Pee-Du-Wee" – 4:00
- "Firewall" – 4:19
- "Freak Show Excess" – 6:51
- "Lotus Feet" – 6:45
- "Yai Yai" – 2:37
- "Midway Creatures" – 3:42
- "I'm Your Secrets" – 4:26
- "Under it All" – 8:07
[edit] Trivia
- It is to be noted that Vai uses a seven-string guitar for the first time in several years on the track "Under it All".
- "Lotus Feet", the seventh song (which is to be the most emotional of the songs on the album), was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The song was recorded live in the Netherlands in 2004 during Vai's "The Aching Hunger Tour".
- This is also the first album on which Vai has used his "Bad Horsie" Ibanez JEM. It is equipped with DiMarzio Breed pickups and a Fernandes Sustainer. It was used on "Building the Church" and "Dying for Your Love".[1][2]
- At approximately 00:18 of "Under it All", when the music stops and crowd noises are heard, you can barely make out Vai screaming "I'm down here, can ya hear me! I'm down he-" then the music cuts back in.
- Towards the end of "Freak Show Excess" at 6:25, after an extended guitar solo, Vai can be heard to say, "Alright, that's enough of that nonsense" before the main theme repeats.
