Steve Vai - Inviolate (CD)

INVIOLATE - THE BRAND NEW STEVE VAI ALBUM - OUT ON FAVORED NATIONS/MASCOT LABEL GROUPCD & DIGITAL ON JANUARY 28, 2022 / VINYL ON MARCH 18, 2022 OUT NOW! Over the course of a more than 40-year career, Steve Vai has routinely transformed what would appear to be outrageously impossible into something very, very possible... and still also pretty outrageous. From his days as Frank Zappa's "stunt guitar" player to his more recent expansive and exploratory solo work, Vai has continually challenged notions of traditional guitar playing and composition – and on more than one occasion even reimagined the very instrument itself. Vai's newest and 10th solo album, Inviolate, a nine-song opus that does indeed push the boundaries of instrumental guitar music – this time out, Vai quite literally invented not just a new guitar, but also a new guitar-playing technique. The instrument you see on the album cover? It's 100% real, it's called the Hydra, and actually played on the album's mesmeric