''Is There Love in Space?'' is the tenth studio album by guitarist

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, released on April 13, 2004, through

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Overview

Recording for ''Is There Love in Space?'' took place from late 2003 to early 2004 and the title was announced on March 22, 2004. Notably, Satriani sings for the first time since his self-titled 1995 album, ''

'', on the songs "Lifestyle" and "I Like the Rain".

Coldplay plagiarism allegation

On December 4, 2008, a lawsuit was filed by Satriani accusing the band

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of plagiarizing "substantial original portions" of his composition "If I Could Fly" on their 2008 song "

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Track listing

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, keyboard,

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

, production * Jeff Campitelli –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Matt Bissonette – bass *John Cuniberti –

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thoug ...

, engineering *Z.Z. Satriani – bass (track 11) *Mike Manning –

sound effect A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. In m ...

s (track 9) * Eric Caudieux –

digital editing In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic d ...

*Justin Phelps – engineering assistance *Mike Boden – engineering assistance * Mike Fraser – mixing *George Marino – mastering

Charts

References

External links

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