Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (US), UDCD 744
Style: Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock
Country: New York City, U.S.
Time: 46:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 292 Mb
The
Inner Mounting Flame is the debut studio album by jazz-rock fusion band
Mahavishnu Orchestra. After their formation, the group performed
several gigs before they entered the studio to record their first album
featuring all original material written by guitarist John McLaughlin.
The album is credited to both Mahavishnu Orchestra and John McLaughlin.
Reviewing the album for JazzTimes in 1998, Bill Milkowski said:
One
is struck by the grandiose reach of the quintet that dared to call
itself an orchestra. Pieces like "Meeting of the Spirits" and the
fragile, acoustic "A Lotus on Irish Streams" are like
classically-inspired suites in miniature. But it was numbers like
"Noonward Race", "Vital Transformation" and especially "Awakening",
fueled by Cobham’s smoldering intensity on the kit and McLaughlin’s
raging, distortion-soaked guitar lines, that really grabbed rock crowds.
More ethereal pieces like "The Dance of Maya", with its odd time
signatures and arpeggios, and the haunting "You Know, You Know", a drum
feature for Cobham, helped to create a kind of mystique about the
Mahavishnu Orchestra that was wholly unprecedented for its time.
In a
retrospective review for Allmusic, Richard S. Ginell wrote that The
Inner Mounting Flame "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".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Mounting_Flame)
01. Meeting of the Spirits (06:51)
02. Dawn (05:15)
03. Noonward Race (06:29)
04. A Lotus on Irish Streams (05:40)
05. Vital Transformation (06:16)
06. The Dance of Maya (07:17)
07. You Know, You Know (05:07)
08. Awakening (03:28)
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