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Mingo Lewis (USA) for Fusion

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Topic: Mingo Lewis (USA) for Fusion
Posted By: HarryAngel746
Subject: Mingo Lewis (USA) for Fusion
Date Posted: November 03 2019 at 04:26
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!

He was mentioned here:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=38809" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=38809


Flight Never Ending 1976

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mingo-lewis/flight-never-ending/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mingo-lewis/flight-never-ending/
https://www.discogs.com/Mingo-Lewis-Flight-Never-Ending/release/4705008" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/Mingo-Lewis-Flight-Never-Ending/release/4705008

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)



Replies:
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 03 2019 at 09:28
Thanks, we'll check him.


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 07 2019 at 07:28
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=11072" rel="nofollow - Added .


Posted By: HarryAngel746
Date Posted: December 07 2019 at 10:57
Thanks!



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