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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