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Release and touring

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of each track was put up on Satriani's official

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channel leading up to the album's release, with "Light Years Away" being released as a free

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single download on September 7, 2010 in exchange for the customer advertising it in a Facebook post or

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Critical reception

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gave ''Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards'' three stars out of five, calling it "a mature work from one of the great rock guitarists" and "pure guitar prog, filled with compressed boogies, sci-fi synths, exotic flourishes, and all of Satch's phasers and flangers in full-tilt overdrive." The album reached No. 45 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200"Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards - Joe Satriani , Awards"
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Track listing

Personnel

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Jeff Campitelli Jeff Campitelli (born 29 December 1960) is a drummer who has worked with Joe Satriani on many of his albums as well as live performances. Before Satriani's breakthrough in instrumental music he played with Joe Satriani in a band called The Sq ...

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*Allen Whitman – bass * Mike Fraser – engineering, mixing, production *Mike Boden – engineering,

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*Dann Michael Thompson – engineering assistance *Judy Kirschner – engineering assistance *Eric Mosher – additional editing, mixing *George Marino – mastering

Charts

References

External links

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