John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
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Artist: John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu OrchestraEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-08-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Meeting of the Spirits
- Dawn
- Noonward Race
- Lotus on Irish Streams
- Vital Transformation
- Dance of Maya
- You Know You Know
- Awakening
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Music Review: Setting a New Trail for the Fusion Revolution
Rating: 5 Stars
The power and drive remains incredible on this August 1971 release, as John McLaughlin delivers a classic in fusion and showing the potential of the electric guitar as a lead instrument.
The debut album for the band - McLaughlin, Rick Laird (b), Billy Cobham (d), Jan Hammer (k), Jerry Goodman (v) - reached #11 and #89, respectively, on Billboard's jazz and pop album charts.
The initial two tracks - Meeting of the Spirits, Dawn - are statements from a new trail being paved from McLaughlin's work with Miles Davis. The Dance of Maya sizzles, while the Noonward Race is arguably Hammer's finest statement with the group, as his ego is kept in check for this solid performance, from start to finish.
The eight tracks are part of the foundation for the emerging fusion revolution that would propel jazz into an impressive cross-over appeal with rock fans throughout the 1970s.
Description of The Inner Mounting Flame
Reissued with sparkling audio and exclusive photographs, this first, 1971, Mahavishnu album certainly vies for the title of the greatest of all jazz-rock recordings. Through spiritually questing flights of intense fury and exquisite quiet, it never loses its sense of inexorable force. Jan Hammer (keyboards), Jerry Goodman (violin), and bassist Rick Laird are completely sympathetic with guitarist John McLaughlin's vision as the music abandons the standard jazz format of successive solos in favor of rapid, heightening, braided, interactive contributions--a structure much drawn from Indian classical music. Astoundingly, the music retains discipline. For that, thank Billy Cobham: Through all the expressive, irregular meters, he remains a steady, resolved engine of percussion, vastly resourceful but ultimately reserved. McLaughlin's alchemy distills many worlds of music?-the jazz-guitar masters, flamenco, blues, Indian forms, and his experience in the innovations of the seminal jazz-rock outfits of Miles Davis and Tony Williams. Of course, distortion, feedback, and arena-rock amplification were crucial, as was the influence of Sri Chinmoy, McLaughlin's spiritual guide. "The Noonward Race," "Vital Transformation," and "The Dance of Maya" are music for the ages. -- Peter MonaghanGeneral CDs
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