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Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
by Walter Kolosky
In 1973, hard rock ruled the universe. But Birds of Fire , a pure instrumental jazz-rock album, managed to crack into the Billboard Top 20 Rock Charts. This was unheard of. And so was the music. Birds of Fire advanced fusion into the modern age, a mere year after the band's The Inner ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Between Nothingness and Eternity
by Walter Kolosky
Between Nothingness and Eternity was released in 1973 and proved to be the swansong of the first edition of The Mahavishnu Orchestra. While the band had produced two truly great studio albums previously, BNE was intended to showcase its legendary live performance. Disappointingly, this recording does not fully capture that experience. Despite that failing, the album ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Apocalypse
by Walter Kolosky
Wow! This 1974 recording had a great pedigree. First, you had Beatles producer George Martin. Then Michael Tilson Thomas, the young and gifted classical conductor, waving his magic wand in front of the London Symphony Orchestra. Jazz violin superstar Jean Luc Ponty stepped up as part of a newly expanded Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the teenage bass ...
The Eternal Flame
Label: Klondike Records (3)
Released: 2001
Track listing: Meetings Of The Spirit; Unknown Song; The Dance Of Maya; A Lotus On Irish Streams; The Nonward Race;
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame/ Birds of Fire
by Alan Brooks
John McLaughlin did more sophisticated offerings after leaving Mahavishnu Orchestra, and these are not my favorite recordings of his; yet The INNER MOUNTING FLAME and BIRDS OF FIRE work nicely as companion albums- I think of them as bookend fusion albums- sister recordings. Each album begins with its 'best' number ("Meeting Of The Spirits" on TIMF; ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire
by Alan Brooks
This review is a brief track-by-track survey of Mahavishnu Orchestra's BIRDS OF FIRE ('73). The title track, which commences the album, opens with cymbal, electric twelve string guitar, and synthesizer; then the bass and violin enter, playing the same ostinato. The machinegun speed 12(?) note guitar-violin duet that follows is the shrieking bird, and though 'blistering' ...
The Lost Trident Sessions
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Dream; Trilogy; Sister Andrea; I Wonder; Steppings Tones; John's Song
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The Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire
by John W. Patterson
First off, I shall quote my earliest, “first impressions”, upon receiving this remastered re-release, as a special pre-release demo copy,“WOW!, WOW! and WOW! Superb redo of this classic! This sounds as good as I had hoped it would. Grab it as soon as it is ready for release. Levels are way up, great separation ...
