In Collection
Rating:
10
Owner:
Jean-Henry Berevoescu
Rating:
10
Owner:
Jean-Henry Berevoescu
| 01 | Dream | 11:10 | ||||||
| 02 | Trilogy: The Sunlit Path / La Mere De La Mer / Tomorrow Story Not The Same | 09:33 | ||||||
| 03 | Sister Andrea | 06:47 | ||||||
| 04 | I Wonder | 03:10 | ||||||
| 05 | Steppings Tones | 03:11 | ||||||
| 06 | John's Song | 05:53 | ||||||
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Columbia/LegacyYear: 1999
Catalog Number: CK 65959
Produced by: The Mahavishnu Orchestra
John McLaughlin (6 & 12 string electric guitars, acoustic guitar)
Jerry Goodman (electric violin, viola, violow [viola with cello strings])
Jan Hammer (keyboards)
Rick Laird (bass)
Billy Cobham (drums)
Originally recorded at Trident Studios, London, England, June25 - 29, 1973
All Tracks Previously Unreleased
Great Linernotes & Photos
20-Bit Digitally Remastered
Recorded in London on June 25, 1973, these sessions for a planned third Mahavishnu Orchestra album were shelved when the band decided to put out the live Between Nothingness and Eternity instead. Bootlegged in the past, two-track mixes of the missing album were discovered in the vaults in the late 1990s, paving the way for its official release in 1999. It's thus the last of the three studio albums done by the original Mahavishnu lineup (with Cobham on drums, Goodman on violin, Hammer on keyboards and Laird on bass). Although McLaughlin had been the only composer on the first two Mahavishnu albums, he only penned half of the six tracks here, with Goodman, Hammer and Laird pitching in a song each. It's fiery, if perhaps over-busy at times, fusion, McLaughlin reaching his most feverish pitches in the frenetic concluding passage of the ten-minute "Trilogy." The numbers written by other members than McLaughlin tend to be a little more subdued, and perhaps unsurprisingly less inclined toward burning guitar solos.