Fire Garden is a 1996 album

Album

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 from guitar

Guitar

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ist Steve Vai

Steve Vai

Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

. This is his fourth solo album, as Alien Love Secrets

Alien Love Secrets

Alien Love Secrets is an EP made by Steve Vai in 1995. It was written as a stripped-down guitar, bass and drums record with minimal keyboards...

is an EP

Extended play

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.

Fire Garden is divided into two "phases". Phase 1, consisting of everything from "There's a Fire in the House" to "Fire Garden Suite", is all instrumental (with the exception of Devin Townsend

Devin Townsend

Devin Garret Townsend is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist....

's backwards vocals on "Whookam" and some more vocals toward the end of "Fire Garden Suite"). The remainder of the album, Phase 2, features Vai on vocals on every song except "Warm Regards", which is an instrumental.

The album was intended to be a double album

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, but at mastering time Vai heard about the new 80 minutes CD format (instead of 74 for standard CD), and both sides would eventually fit on one disk.

"Dyin' Day" was co-written by Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

 during the writing sessions for Osbourne's Ozzmosis

Ozzmosis

-Personnel:Musicians*Ozzy Osbourne – vocals*Zakk Wylde – guitar*Geezer Butler – bass*Deen Castronovo – drums*Rick Wakeman – keyboardsAdditional personnel*Michael Beinhorn – production, keyboards...

album, which was released in 1995. One other song from those sessions ("My Little Man") made its way onto Ozzmosis, and is credited on that album as being co-written by Vai.

Phase 1

1. "There's a Fire in the House" - 5:26
2. "The Crying Machine" - 4:51
3. "Dyin' Day" (Vai, Ozzy Osbourne
   Ozzy Osbourne
   John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
   
   ) - 4:29
4. "Whookam" - 0:37
5. "Blowfish" - 4:03
6. "The Mysterious Murder of Christian Tiera's Lover" - 1:01
7. "Hand on Heart" - 5:27
8. "Bangkok" (Björn Ulvaeus
   Björn Ulvaeus
   Björn Kristian Ulvaeus is a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
   
   , Tim Rice
   Tim Rice
   Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...
   
   ) - 2:47
9. "Fire Garden Suite" - 9:56

   "Bull Whip"

   "Pusa Road"

   "Angel Food"

   "Taurus Bulba"

Phase 2

10. "Deepness" - 0:48
11. "Little Alligator" - 6:12
12. "All About Eve" - 4:28
13. "Aching Hunger" - 4:45
14. "Brother" - 5:04
15. "Damn You" - 4:31
16. "When I Was a Little Boy" - 1:20
17. "Genocide" - 4:10
18. "Warm Regards" - 4:06