'We are excited for the relationship with Octave Group and the opportunity it presents us to help significantly improve the overall retail music experience.' 'Octave Group's focus on creating meaningful, emotional connections with music for brands strongly aligns with our mission to build next generation listening experiences,' said Zack Zalon, co-founder and chief executive officer at Super Hi-Fi. The agreement will enable Octave Group, including PlayNetwork and TouchTunes, to offer selected Super Hi-Fi music technology in a fully integrated solution. Having said that, Vai did reveal that the pair worked on an early version of Dyin' Day for the album, which was later reworked for the guitarist's 1996 solo record, Fire Garden.LOS ANGELES, J/PRNewswire/ - Super Hi-Fi, the AI-powered audio platform that creates engaging digital music listening experiences, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Octave Group, a leading provider of music and branded entertainment experiences in retail, bars, and restaurants. That means it looks as though an entire album worth of octave divider action from Vai is doomed to eternity among the ranks of 'records that almost were.' Unfortunately for guitar fans, it doesn’t sound likely the unnamed Vai/Osbourne album will get a release any time soon, with Vai admitting he isn’t currently in control of the record’s rights. We're already into it for this much money, and Vai is expensive,’ so it worked out perfect, really.” “They basically said, ‘What are you doing? No, you've just got to take a song from Vai and finish your record. “And then we started scheming, ‘Hey, let's make a new record!’, and all that was fine and good, and we got excited about it until the hammer came down. “Ozzy and I got carried away because we were having a lot of fun, and we ended up recording a lot of stuff,” Vai reflected. Unfortunately, the suits behind the scenes weren’t too keen. Yeah, that's not me as you know, but I had to be accessible, so I thought, ‘I'm going to use an octave divider on everything’ I mean, all the rhythm.”Īs for how the duo ended up recording an entire album when they started out as one-time-only co-writers, Vai explained the pair got “carried away” as they were “having a lot of fun,' and ultimately ended up plotting to release their own collaborative record.

“I thought, ‘Okay, you're going to work with Ozzy, and all these incredible guitar players have played with Ozzy what are you going to do?’ I was not going to be conventional.

Vai continued, “There was some real, real heavy stuff because, as I mentioned, I used an octave divider on everything, and that was a conscious effort.

Whether Vai means the classic Mu-Tron Octave Divider or just a standard octave pedal with a similar effect is unclear, but the prospect of Vai going to town on an album using the classic octave circuit is a pretty tantalizing one. The Ibanez signature artist also went on to divulge some of the six-string intricacies of the album, claiming, “The interesting thing about that stuff we recorded from a guitar perspective is all of my rhythm guitar parts, I use an octave divider, and that record doesn't sound like anything else.” “I don't have any control over it or rights to it, obviously, but we did record some pretty good stuff.” “Well, I'm sitting on a whole Ozzy record, and it's like the Gash record – not 'like' the Gash record – but it's a project that I recorded that's sitting on the shelf,” Vai said.

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