Item Description
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
INNER MOUNTING FLAME
24kt gold CD
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
from Original Master Tapes
All in a very good condition CD, bookles, CD lift- lock jewel case
1. Meeting Of The Spirits 6:51
2. Dawn 5:15
3. The Noonward Race 6:29
4. A Lotus On Irish Streams 5:40
5. Vital Transformation 6:16
6. The Dance Of Maya 7:17
7. You Know You Know 5:07
8. Awakening 3:28
This is the album that made John McLaughlin
a semi-household name, a furious, high-energy, yet rigorously conceived
meeting of virtuosos that, for all intents and purposes, defined the
fusion of jazz and rock a year after Miles Davis Bitches Brew
breakthrough. It also inadvertently led to the derogatory connotation
of the word fusion, for it paved the way for an army of imitators, many
of whose excesses and commercial panderings devalued the entire
movement. Though much was made of the influence of jazz-influenced
improvisation in the Mahavishnu band, it is the rock element that
predominates, stemming directly from the electronic innovations of Jimi Hendrix. The improvisations, particularly McLaughlin s post-Hendrix machine-gun assaults on double-necked electric guitar and Jerry Goodman s
flights on electric violin, owe more to the freakouts that had been
circulating in progressive rock circles than to jazz, based as they
often are on ostinatos on one chord. These still sound genuinely
thrilling today on CD, as McLaughlin and Goodman battle Jan Hammer s keyboards, Rick Laird s bass, and especially Billy Cobham s
hard-charging drums, whose jazz-trained technique pushed the envelope
for all rock drummers. What doesn t date so well are the composed
medium- and high-velocity unison passages that are played in such tight
lockstep that they can t breathe. There is also time out for quieter,
reflective numbers that are drenched in studied spirituality A Lotus
on Irish Streams or irony You Know You Know McLaughlin
was to do better in that department with less-driven colleagues
elsewhere in his career. Aimed with absolute precision at young rock
fans, this record was wildly popular in its day, and it may have been
the cause of more blown-out home amplifiers than any other record this
side of Deep Purple.
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