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Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity  CD (album) cover

BETWEEN NOTHINGNESS & ETERNITY

Mahavishnu Orchestra

 

Jazz Rock/Fusion

3.79 | 207 ratings

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rick_Trotta
5 stars Having been there on that New York City, muggy summer night at the Shaffer Music Festival in Central Park where this album was recorded, so many years ago I will tell you that The Mahavishnu Orchestra was the most techincally brilliant, creatively daring and unabashedly as incredible live as they were in the studio. In rapture from the first bang of the the signature gong notes and phase shifitng tonalities, to the very last oncore this live recording is fairly close to being there. The sound is balanced and some of the hard edges that make live concerts what they are is toned down a bit. The sonic waves that pennetrated those in attendence from incredible solos of Mc Laughlin soaring Gutar trading off with Goodman on electric Violin and Jan Hammer on Keygboards held deftly together by the power house Cobhan on Drums and Laird on Bass could be experienced once more if you turn the stereo up and let your soul soar along with them. This five piece unit was the seminal outfit that so many fusioin groups would follow after, like Chick Corea's Return to Forever and the 11th House helmed by Larry Coreyell on guitar. John Mc Laughlin being guided by his spiritual mentor Sri Chinmoy brought to this world a vision of musical perfection with all the heavy metal screams, power and soul piericing atonal juxtopositions of Jimi Hendrix combined with the inprovisational genius that Mc Laughlin finely honed while he played on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and his solo debute albums My Goals Beyond album and Extrapolations. Mahavishnu John Mc Laughlin ushered in a new kind of music one that was unafraid to be sophistitcated and technically unparalled and perhaps was the introduction to true improvisational jazz for many aspiring musicians who up until that point were only listening to R&B and metal groups for inspiration and like myself knew that what I heard was something like I never heard before and have yet to hear again. This album is a piece of living music history, unadulterated and pure like the music that it is a testament too. John Mc Laughlin. Billly Coban, Yan Hammer, Jerry Goodman and Rick Laird will remain in my mind the first and formost seminal Jazz/Rock Fusion Group and this album is the last recorded live with this line up other than bootlegs of other live concerts.
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