JASON BECKER – Triumphant Hearts (2018)
JASON BECKER is releasing “Triumphant Hearts” tomorrow, an album featuring dozens of guest stars including Neal Schon, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Marty Friedman and more. Becker, a former David Lee Roth guitarist and brilliant solo shredder who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1990, lost the ability to move over the following years.
He communicates using his eyes and continues to create music by computer, as detailed in the 2012 documentary Not Dead Yet. “I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,” he once said. “It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.”
Jason Becker’s story is one of brilliance, talent, determination, adversity, and, ultimately, triumph.
A child prodigy on guitar, Jason rose to prominence as a teenager when he was one half of the legendary rock guitar duo Cacophony (with his great friend Marty Friedman).
After wowing audiences all over the world with his amazing guitar chops and deep compositions, Jason auditioned for —and got— the gig with David Lee Roth, following in the huge footsteps of Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai.
He wrote and recorded the DLR album ‘A Little Ain’t Enough’ and was poised to take over the rock guitar world when a nagging pain in his leg was diagnosed as ALS, a debilitating and fatal condition with a life expectancy of maybe five years.
Maybe. That was 29 years ago.
Today Jason’s busier and more prolific than ever, as evidenced by “Triumphant Hearts”.
The album’s 14 tracks showcase Jason’s gift for melody and his deep knowledge of classical composition and orchestral arrangement.
Many of the guitar parts are performed by a who’s-who of 6-string gods including Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Neal Schon, Steve Morse, Paul Gilbert, Joe Bonamassa, and many others.
And, in what will absolutely delight his fans, Jason’s amazing guitar playing — recorded in the ’80s and ’90s — graces several tunes.
Fans of the ’80s / 90s ‘Shrapnel Records era’ when guitar instrumental albums ruled the world are in a treat with “Triumphant Hearts”. It’s a pure delight of awesome solos and rhythm guitar mastery.
Ranging from hard rockin’ songs to elaborated compositions, the album flow with ease and if you want to dissect deeply, grab you headphones and take free lesson of incredible riffs and scales.
Highly Recommended
1. Triumphant Heart
(feat. Marty Friedman, Glauco Bertagnin & Hiyori Okuda)
2. Hold On To Love
(feat. Codany Holiday)
3. Fantasy Weaver
(feat. Jake Shimabukuro)
4. Once Upon A Melody
5. We Are One
(feat. Steve Knight)
6. Magic Woman
(feat. Uli Jon Roth & Chris Broderick)
7. Blowin’ in the Wind
(Gary Rosenberg & Jason Becker)
8. River of Longing
(feat. Joe Satriani, Aleks Sever, Guthrie Govan, Steve Morse)
9. Valley of Fire
(feat. Michael Lee Firkins, Steve Vai, Joe Bonamassa, Paul Gilbert, Neal Schon, Mattias IA Eklundh, Marty Friedman, Greg Howe, Jeff Loomis, Richie Kotzen, Gus G., Steve Hunter, Ben Woods)
10. River of Longing
(feat. Trevor Rabin)
11. Taking Me Back
12. Tell Me No Lies
13. Hold On To Love
(feat. Codany Holiday) [Chuck Zwicky Remix]
14. You Do It
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