Real Illusions: Reflections

2005 · 11 tracks · 55 min
Hard Rock
Added November 2020

Largely Instrumental Guitar Sold on Guitar Nine

Steve Vai's first new solo album in nearly five years, Real Illusions: Reflections, features twelve highly anticipated tracks by Vai. The first volume in a three-part 'Concept Trilogy' features the legendary guitar virtuoso in fine form. As he himself describes it, "Real Illusions: Reflections is the first part of a multi-layered menagerie of vignettes based on the amplified mental exaggerations of a truth-seeking madman who sees the world... oh never mind." Vai is joined by long-time collaborators Billy Sheehan on bass and Jeremy Colson on drums, while Vai handles all the other instruments, oh, and some guitar playing! Mostly instrumental, there are four vocal tracks in the mix.

Tracks — 7 of 11 instrumental

1	Building The Church Inst. guitar	4:58
2	Dying For Your Love	4:51
3	Glorious Inst. guitar	4:35
4	K'm-Pee-Du-Wee Inst. guitar	4:00
5	Firewall	4:19
6	Freak Show Excess Inst. guitar	6:52
7	Lotus Feet Inst. guitar	6:45
8	Yai Yai Inst. guitar	2:38
9	Midway Creatures Inst. guitar	3:43
10	I'm Your Secrets	4:27
11	Under It All	8:08