Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin) - Birds Of Fire [Japanese Ed.] (1973)

Year: March 29, 1973 (CD Feb 1, 1997)
Label: Sony Records (Japan), SRCS 9177
Style: Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Country: New York City, U.S.
Time: 40:16
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 255 Mb

Charts: US #15, AUS #38, GER #29, NOR #18, UK #20. US: Gold.
This is an absolute masterpiece!. For those who love (like me) progressive fusion jazz/rock will need to get your hands on this masterpiece. Without a question the first few MAHAV albums are some of the most aggressive and mind stretching albums of all time. The MAHAV's output from the Trident Studio days are to treasure in your collection for sure. Once again here we get a fantastic collaboration of musical instumentation and musical ideas. John McLaughlin's guitar solos are simply killer and being back by Hammer (keyboards), Laird (bass), Cobham (drums) and Goodman on violin makes this a real keeper. At times "Birds Of Fire" identifies a quasi - KING CRIMSON feel with lots of originality and musical sophistication. If you have high blood pressure, you may not want to plug in this album to your stereo. Absolutely stunning musicanship and one of the best fusion/prog albums your money can buy... Even a Miles Davis tune to boot.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3357) Review by memowakeman. March 22, 2005

01. Birds Of Fire (05:46)

02. Miles Beyond (Miles Davis) (04:42)

03. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters (02:53)

04. Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love (00:23)

05. Thousand Island Park (03:22)

06. Hope (01:58)

07. One Word (09:56)

08. Sanctuary (05:05)

09. Open Country Joy (03:56)

10. Resolution (02:10)

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Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame [MFSL-CD] (1971)

Year: November 3, 1971 (CD 1999)
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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National Health - Complete [2CD. all three studio albums plus bonus tracks] (1990)

Year: 1990 (CD 1990)
Label: East Side Digital (US), ESD 80402/412
Style: Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Country: Canterbury, England
Time: 79:02, 79:25
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 526, 526 Mb

National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee and bassist Mont Campbell as original members. The band was named after Stewart's National Health spectacles. Bill Bruford (previously of Yes and King Crimson) was the initial drummer, but was soon replaced by Pip Pyle. Campbell was replaced by Neil Murray and then John Greaves. Alan Gowen left the group before its first album (although he appeared on it as a guest musician), but returned for their final tours, replacing Dave Stewart, who resigned after their second album. Amanda Parsons sang with the group in its original lineup but also appeared on the first album only as a guest; the group never had another full-time vocalist, although Richard Sinclair appeared a few times as a guest vocalist, and Greaves sang on one track of the second album and occasionally in concerts. Guitarist Phil Miller was National Health's only constant member.
They toured extensively and released their first album, National Health, in 1978. Although it was created during the rise of punk rock, the album is characterized by lengthy, mostly instrumental compositions. National Health continued performing live until winter 1980, but disbanded without recording another album.
After the May 1981 death of Gowen, the Queues lineup of Stewart, Miller, Greaves and Pyle reunited to record the album D.S. Al Coda, a set of compositions by Gowen, most previously unrecorded. The original albums and additional archival material have subsequently been released on CD.
The intro of National Health's "Binoculars" was used as a sample on American rock band Deftones' "Black Moon".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health)

01. Paracelsus (01:45)
02. Tenemos Roads (14:34)
03. Brujo (10:18)
04. Borogoves (Excerpt From Part Two) (04:12)
05. Borogoves (Part One) (06:35)
06. Elephants (14:31)
07. The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians), Part 1 (08:54)
08. The Collapso (06:18)
09. Squarer for Maud (11:50)

01. Dreams Wide Awake (08:50)
02. Binoculars (11:45)
03. Phlakaton (00:08)
04. The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians), Part 2 (05:33)
05. Apocalypso (06:50)
06. Portrait of a Shrinking Man (05:35)
07. T.N.T.F.X. (03:12)
08. Black Hat (04:52)
09. I Feel a Night Coming On (06:37)
10. Arriving Twice (02:22)
11. Shining Water (08:53)
12. Tales of a Damson Knight (01:56)
13. Flanagan’s People (05:20)
14. Toad of Toad Hall (07:26)

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Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light [Live] (1980)

Year: September 1980 (CD 1990)
Label: Asylum Records (US), 704-2
Style: Soft Rock, Folk Rock, Jazz Fusion
Country: Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada (November 7, 1943)
Time: 72:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 343 Mb

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, responsible for hit songs such as “Both Sides, Now” and “Big Yellow Taxi,” is widely considered 1960s and ’70s folk royalty.
Joni Mitchell Today: Folk Singer Performs at the 2024 Grammy Awards at Age 80. Prior to the 2024 Grammys, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was already a nine-time trophy winner. On February 4, the 80-year-old graced the Grammy stage to collect the award for Best Folk Album, then again in a career first: as a performer during the ceremony. Alongside musician Brandi Carlile, Mitchell sang her hit song “Both Sides, Now.” Mitchell has rarely performed in recent years. A 2015 brain aneurysm left her hospitalized for weeks, and she’s had to relearn to play guitar in addition to other basic motor functions, like walking. In a major feat along her recovery journey, Mitchell performed her first full-length concert in more than 20 years at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival. Her surprise set resulted in the live album At Newport, which won this year’s folk album category.
She recorded her first album in 1968 before finding commercial and critical success with Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, and Court and Spark, three albums from the early 1970s. Mitchell’s songs have been covered by the likes of Judy Collins and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with her emotionally vulnerable lyrics influencing scores of musicians. Her impact on music has earned her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Gershwin Prize.
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Canada. Her famous last name mirrors that of her first husband, Chuck Mitchell.
At age 9, Joni contracted polio, and it was during her recovery in the hospital that she began performing and singing to patients. After teaching herself how to play the guitar, she went off to art college and quickly emerged as one of the leading folk performers of the late 1960s and ’70s.
(full version: biography.com/musicians/joni-mitchell)

01. Introduction (01:51)
02. In France They Kiss On Main Street (04:14)
03. Edith And The Kingpin (04:09)
04. Coyote (04:56)
05. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (06:04)
06. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (04:33)
07. Amelia (06:39)
08. Pat's Solo (03:10)
09. Hejira (07:45)
10. Dreamland (04:38)
11. Band Introduction (00:50)
12. Furry Sings The Blues (05:04)
13. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (02:48)
14. Shadows And Light (05:24)
15. God Must Be A Boogie Man (05:03)
16. Woodstock (05:08)

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