Crystal Planet

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Crystal Planet is the seventh studio album by the American guitarist Joe Satriani, released on March 3, 1998, by Epic Records.<ref name=allmusic>Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Crystal Planet - Joe Satriani". AllMusic. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref> It was his first album to be released on Epic, whereas his previous six albums were released by Relativity Records. Crystal Planet reached No. 50 on the U.S. Billboard 200<ref name=allmusicawards>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and remained on that chart for eight weeks,<ref name=billboard>[[[:Template:BillboardURLbyName]] "Joe Satriani - Chart history"]. Billboard. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref> as well as reaching the top 100 in five other countries.<ref name=finnishcharts>"Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (album)". Finnishcharts. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref> "Ceremony" was released as a single, reaching No. 28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart<ref name=allmusicawards/> and featuring Satriani's first recorded use of a seven-string guitar, the Ibanez Universe. "A Train of Angels" was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the 1999 Grammy Awards,<ref name=grammy>"41st Grammy Awards - 1999". Rock On The Net. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref> Satriani's ninth nomination.

Reissues

Crystal Planet has been reissued twice. The first was on June 16, 2008, as part of the Original Album Classics box set,<ref>"Original Album Classics - Joe Satriani". AllMusic. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref> and then again as part of The Complete Studio Recordings, released on April 22, 2014, by Legacy Recordings; this is a box set compilation containing remastered editions of every Satriani studio album from 1986 to 2013.<ref>Bosso, Joe (April 8, 2014). "Joe Satriani talks The Complete Studio Recordings album by album | Surfing With The Alien (1987)". MusicRadar. Future plc. Retrieved April 17, 2020.</ref>

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine at AllMusic called Crystal Planet "an instrumental record with a difference" and Satriani's "finest all-instrumental effort since Surfing With the Alien". He praised Satriani for "taking more chances than ever" and further developing his technique, saying that it reaches "new, uncharted waters".<ref name=allmusic/>

Personnel

• Joe Satriani – guitar, guitar synthesizer, keyboard (tracks 5, 7, 13, 14), bass (tracks 2, 13, 14), harmonica, clapping (track 7), mixing (tracks 14, 15), producer (tracks 13–15)
• Eric Caudieux – keyboard (tracks 3, 7, 9, 12), programming, orchestration, editing
• Eric Valentine – keyboard (track 14), drums (tracks 13, 14), percussion (tracks 13, 14), bass (track 14), engineering (tracks 13, 14), mixing (track 14), production (tracks 13, 14)
• Jeff Campitelli – drums (tracks 1–12), percussion (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8–12), clapping (track 7)
• Elk Thunder – percussion (track 8)
• Rhoades Howe – percussion (track 14), engineering assistance (tracks 13, 14)
• Stuart Hamm – bass (tracks 1, 3–12)
• Mike Manning – clapping (track 7)
• Mike Fraser – clapping (track 7), engineering (tracks 1–13), mixing (tracks 1–13), production (tracks 1–13)
• John Cuniberti – engineering (tracks 14, 15), mixing (tracks 15), production (tracks 14, 15)
• Kent Matcke – engineering assistance (tracks 1–10, 12)
• Kevin Scott – engineering assistance (tracks 1–12), mixing assistance (track 14)
• Stephen Hart – engineering assistance (track 15)
• Judy Kirschner – engineering assistance
• Zac Allentuck – mixing assistance (tracks 1–10, 12, 13)
• George Marino – mastering

Charts

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Chart (1998)	Peak position

Awards

Event	Title	Award	Result
1999 Grammys	"A Train of Angels"	Best Rock Instrumental Performance	Nominated<ref name=grammy/>

External links

• Crystal Planet at satriani.com
• Joe Satriani "Crystal Planet" album review at Guitar Nine