American drummer and percussionist. His album Flight Never Ending from 1976 is 100% fusion with big number of elements and rich arrangements, something like more latin Mahavishnu (I'm thinking about rocking jazz-rock dynamism) with more space synths. There' are also assosiations with Al Di Meola's works in overall sound.
Mingo Lewis was also in bands: Return to Forever (short time, only in 1973), he worked with Santana/Carlos Santana (Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender and more) and was long-time percussionist on Al di Meola's albums (Land Of The Midnight Sun, Elegant Gypsy, Casino and more). During his cooperation with Al di Meola he wasn't only a percussionist, but he was also author/composer of tracks: "The Wizard", "Flight over Rio", "Chasin' the voodoo" (according to discogs) and hist contribution is generally audible.
In short, a lot of happen on every second of this album. ("Visions of another time" has even more layers of space synths, "Trapezoid" tends to Herbie Hancock style and last title-track has most deep, even epic space feel) Overally great, very energetic album!
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Flight Never Ending 1976
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full album: (arg! just a moment ago entire album was available...) but uff - there're separete songs.
A1. Aba Cua (1:36) A2. Frankincense (7:02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od49UiTa26w" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od49UiTa26w A3. Heartsong (8:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUtPdZ9E7M" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUtPdZ9E7M A4. The Wizard (7:35) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM5s0N1hKCM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM5s0N1hKCM B1. Visions Of Another Time (6:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_LBR8aK-mY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_LBR8aK-mY B2. Trapezoid (4:46) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW98lS3VNHI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW98lS3VNHI B3. 'Maginary Monsters (1:02) B4. Flight Never Ending (8:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUtPdZ9E7M" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUtPdZ9E7M
Louis Bramy Bells, Percussion, Producer, Vocals Don Cody Engineer Mike Fusaro Engineer Mike Kapitan Composer, Keyboards Michael Kapitau Arranger, Composer, Drums, Moog Synthesizer, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals Mingo Lewis Arranger, Bells, Clavinet, Composer, Congas, Gong, Gwido, Handclapping, Kalimba, Percussion, Producer, Stick, Synthesizer, Vibraslap, Vocals David Logerman Drums Eric McCann Bass Kincaid Miller Clavinet, Keyboards, Synthesizer Mingo Primary Artist Randy Sellgren Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
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