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Alien Love Secrets is an EP by guitarist Steve Vai, released on March 21, 1995, through Relativity Records. The EP reached No. 125 on the U.S. Billboard 200[3] and remained on that chart for two weeks,[4] as well as reaching No. 72 on the Dutch albums chart.[5]

Alien Love Secrets
EP by Steve Vai
Released	March 21, 1995 (1995-03-21)[1]
Recorded	The Mothership Studio in Hollywood Hills
Genre	Instrumental rock
Length	33:26[2]
Label	Relativity
Producer	Steve Vai
Steve Vai chronology
Sex & Religion (1993) Alien Love Secrets (1995) Fire Garden (1996)

Overview

Alien Love Secrets was written and recorded in less than six weeks as a stripped-down guitar, bass and drums record with minimal keyboards. According to Vai, he had wished to maintain a steady output of material following his 1993 album Sex & Religion, but the recording process for the 70+ minutes of his subsequent 1996 album Fire Garden was taking too long. The EP was therefore purposely released in anticipation of Fire Garden.[6] Stylistically Alien Love Secrets marks a return to the more familiar instrumental rock of Vai's 1990 album Passion and Warfare, following the highly mixed reception to Sex & Religion.[1]

Notable tracks include "Bad Horsie", which was derived from a riff played by Vai during the final scenes of the 1986 film Crossroads; "Juice" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1996 PlayStation video game Formula 1; "Ya-Yo Gakk" is a call and response interplay with vocal recordings of Vai's young son Julian; "Tender Surrender", one of Vai's most popular songs, bases itself around a familiar sound, structure and tempo as Jimi Hendrix's "Villanova Junction" from his 1969 performance at Woodstock, although written in a different key; and "The Boy from Seattle", which is a tribute to Hendrix written by Vai.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine at AllMusic gave Alien Love Secrets three stars out of five, calling it a "moodier, more atmospheric collection" than Passion and Warfare. He also praised his "fluid technique, which manages to never become completely mechanical."[1]

Track listing

Personnel

• Steve Vai – guitar, keyboard, Eventide H3000 harmonizer, drum programming, bass, engineering, production
• Tommy Mars – organ (track 7)
• Deen Castronovo – drums (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7)
• Julian Vai – baby vocals (track 5)
• Sergio Buss – engineering assistance
• Bernie Grundman – mastering
• Pam Daney – production assistance

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1995	Dutch albums chart	72[5]
	Billboard 200	125[3]

References

External links

• Guitar Nine Records - In Review: Steve Vai "Alien Love Secrets" at Guitar Nine Records

На других языках

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- [en] Alien Love Secrets

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[es] Alien Love Secrets

Alien Love Secrets es un EP del guitarrista estadounidense Steve Vai lanzado en 1995. Pese a no ser un disco de larga duración, es uno de los más famosos y aclamados del guitarrista.

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[ru] Alien Love Secrets

Alien Love Secrets (с англ. — «Чужие любовные секреты») — мини-альбом американского рок-музыканта Стива Вая, был выпущен в 1995 году на лейбле Epic Records. Диск был издан в период записи альбома Fire Garden, который вышел годом позже. Вай хотел сохранить продуктивный интервал выпуска альбомов, а так как выход Fire Garden затягивался из-за большой продолжительности материала (более 70 минут), музыкант принял решение записать мини-альбом, чтобы не создавать большую паузу после Sex and Religion 1993 года. Среди известных композиций пластинки — «Bad Horsie» (основанная на риффе из кинофильма Перекрёсток), «Ya-Yo Gakk», с вокалом Джуллиана — маленького сына Вая; «Tender Surrender» (одна из самых известных песен Вая), которая базируется вокруг знакомой мелодии (структура и темп) — композиции Джими Хендрикса «Villanova Junction» из альбома Live At Woodstock, хотя написана в другой тональности, и «The Boy from Seattle», которую Вай посвятил Хендриксу.

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