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Personnel includes: Jason Becker (guitar, keyboards, bass); Marty Friedman (guitar); Atma Anur (drums).
Composer: Jason Becker.
Personnel: Jason Becker (guitar, keyboards); Marty Friedman (guitar); Atma Anur (drums).
Unknown Contributor Role: Marty Friedman.
Cacophony guitarist Jason Becker's all-instrumental solo album is a winner. On Perpetual Burn, Becker gets to stretch out and really show his talents, whereas in Cacophony, with fellow virtuoso Marty Friedman sharing the spotlight, some of the subtleties of Becker's style are lost amid the cluttered speed metal maelstrom. Floating in on a bed of ethereal keyboards, Becker's guitar opens the album with a lyrical solo on the stately "Altitudes." His compositional skills allow the piece to build naturally and make it a coherent, satisfying statement rather than a jarring collection of unrelated ideas. The album's best moment, "Air," features some traditional classical fingerpicking that gives way to multi-tracked arpeggio orchestrations and Bach-style counterpoint. The piece, which consists almost solely of clean, unprocessed electric guitar and no further accompaniment (with the exception of some keyboard textures in the beginning and end), is a wonderful respite from the rest of the album's more metallic style and supersaturated guitar tones. There are also some quirky, humorous touches sprinkled liberally around Perpetual Burn, which add to its charm. ~ Andy Hinds Jason Becker Perpetual Burn Songs Perpetual Burn Music Review Average Rating: (4.6 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews BEST CD EVER WRITED
The compositions are amazing and unique.
a sound very complex and the amazing sound of altitudes and mable fatal fable i love this cd nothing compares to it!!
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neo classical
this is one of the best ablum for Jason, his guitar playing is magnificent, this is a got to have album
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this album is a must have for all the guitar players!after playing with marty friedman in the band cacophony jason shows is great ability.the direct competitor of malmsteen in the neoclassical style.but here jason shows is predominance and can be considered one of the best shredder in the world
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Yay for Becker
This cd has by far the most adroit guitar work i have heard for a long time. Jason Becker ROCKS an ROCKS HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!
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In my opinion, best guitar album ever produced, i've had it for around a year and i still cannot stop listening to it. The highlghts for me are 'altitudes', 'opus pocus' and 'perpetual burn'. Becker is one of the only guitarrists in the world who can use speed to enhance the feeling, rather than subdue it. This album proves that he is THE BEST guitarrist the world has ever seen.
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Personnel: Vinnie Moore (guitar), Andy West (bass), Tony MacAlpine (keyboards), Tommy Aldridge (drums).
Personnel: Vinnie Moore (guitar); Tony MacAlpine (keyboards); Tommy Aldridge (drums).
Recording information: Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati CA (08/1996).
Who's faster: Yngwie Malmsteen or Vinnie Moore? That was the question back in 1986 when this recording was released. An obvious clone of Malmsteen, Moore burst upon the scene proving that, yes, someone else could play "that fast too." The problem with Mind's Eye and the subsequent genre of shredding that followed was that it became stagnant. Malmsteen turned heads from all musical styles because of his technical proficiency back in the early '80s, but those same heads quickly turned away to find out that there was little more being offered than really fast scales. The speed alone was ...
| | Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony CD (1987)
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Personnel: Peter Marrino (vocals); Marty Friedman (guitar, bass); Jason Becker (guitars); Atma Anur (drums).
Personnel: Peter Marrino (vocals); Jason Becker (guitar, bass guitar); Marty Friedman (guitar); Atma Anur (drums).
Recording information: Prarie Sun Studios, Cotati, CA (05/1987-06/1987).
Unknown Contributor Role: Guy Aitchison.
Cacophony's Speed Metal Symphony is one of the more extreme entries in the Shrapnel Records catalog. Rather than being a showcase for merely one guitar hero possessing superhuman technique, Cacophony brings you two guitar virtuosos, Marty Friedman and Jason Becker, who are equally capable of blowing your head off with their state-of-the-art neo-classical chops. As if that weren't enough, their angular compositions are delivered at warp-speed tempos, with tons of dissonance and odd time signatures thrown into the mix. Imagine twin Yngwie Malmsteens playing simultaneously over a bed of Megadeth rhythm tracks, and you'll get the basic idea. The sheer note density ...
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| | Cacophony Go Off CD (1989)
Perpetual Burn
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Personnel: Peter Marrino (vocals); Jason Becker, Marty Friedman (guitar); Deen Castronovo, Kenny Stavropoulos (drums).
Recording information: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA; Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, CA; Studio D, Sausalito, CA.
Cacophony's second (and last) effort improves on the formula established on their Speed Metal Symphony album. The brainchild of guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker, Cacophony is basically an arena in which the two shredders can indulge their most decadent instrumental ideas. Their songs are as influenced by speed metal as they are by neo-classical prog rock, which makes them even more intense than many of their Shrapnel brethren. On Go Off!, the duo clean up the sound a bit and pare back the guitar excesses just a tad, allowing for a slightly more song-oriented approach (similar to what Racer X does). "Stranger" even has a decent pop hook in its chorus. ...
| | Jason Becker Raspberry Jams CD (1999)
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Personnel: Jason Becker (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drum programming); Ehren Becker (vocals, bass); Marty Friedman (guitar).
Composer: Jason Becker.
Personnel: Jason Becker (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Ehren Becker (vocals); Marty Friedman (guitar).
Photographer: Ross Pelton.
Arranger: Jason Becker.
There are few stories in rock music as tragic as that of Jason Becker. Just as six-string stardom was handed to him on a silver platter -- by landing ...
| | Jason Becker Perspective CD (1996)
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