MAHAVISHNU

What? Billy Cobham is back? Is this the Orchestra or just the dude? Many are of the opinion that John is trying here to revive fallen record sales by teasing the consumer into believing that he is resurrecting the the dead. So, is this the Truth? The Second Coming? or just a media ploy.

The music here is sadly quite immersed (and processed) through the jungle of new technological gimicks that the digital computer age has dumped on the unsuspecting consumer world--the latest glam and sparkle. The compositions are all pretty lame, the performances half-enthused (feeling as if the musicians are struggling a lot with grasping how best to used their new sounds and technologies); none of the band members feel really comfortable with the music or sounds that they're playing. Write this one off as a preseason game: the band's next album, Adventures in Radioland, is the one you want if you want great compositions, Mahavishnu-standard musicianship (and performances), and perhaps the very best that 1980s jazz had to offer.

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