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Joe Satriani, Shapeshifting. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We listen to music to be entertained and enthralled, more importantly we listen to learn about ourselves, to find ways to shed the skin we have and to inhabit a new belief, to force ourselves to transform from the basic uneducated version to one of the fully rounded human being, one who sees metamorphosis as a right and not as a hindrance.

The art of the Shapeshifting mortal is one lost to someone who refuses to see time as a teacher, they cling to the belief that it is the surroundings that alter their appearance, that the individual remains, implausibly, the same.