The Inner Mounting Flame

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The Inner Mounting Flame
Studio album by Mahavishnu Orchestra

Publication
(s)

August 14, 1971

admission

1971

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Jazz rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

46:18

occupation John McLaughlin, Rick Laird, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman

production

John McLaughlin

chronology
- The Inner Mounting Flame Birds of Fire (1973)
John McLaughlin (1973)

The Inner Mounting Flame is the first studio album by the multinational jazz rock band Mahavishnu Orchestra , consisting of the British guitarist and founder of the band John McLaughlin , the American violinist Jerry Goodman , the Czech keyboardist Jan Hammer , the Panamanian drummer Billy Cobham and the New Zealander Bass player Rick Laird . The album was recorded in 1971 and released on August 14, 1971 on Columbia Records . It was first released on LP and later on CD, has a total of eight tracks with a total running time of 46 minutes and 18 seconds. All compositions on the album are by John McLaughlin.

The album

Founded in 1971, the Mahavishnu Orchestra played several debut gigs before going into the studio to record their first album, The Inner Mounting Flame . And the results of the recording sessions can be heard: “The rising and falling, distorted mantra-like riffs and the unison playing of The Inner Mounting Flame set a standard for jazz rock that is still valid today. His Indian influences, mixed with blues elements and rock roughness, inspired the music world. The musical attack was relentless ... can still blow the first listeners away. The Inner Mounting Flame was recorded before the use of synthesizers, drum machines and computer support. The sound is loud, raw and dangerous ... wild devotion meets classic melodies ... melodies and rhythms like this have never been heard before. "

The album The Inner Mounting Flame was part of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's The Complete Columbia Albums Collection box set , released by Columbia Records in 2011. However, in contrast to the original album, the box set contains a live version of The Noonward Race , which was recorded on April 3, 1972 at the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico .

The album's title You Know, You Know was sampled several times by other artists, for example in One Love by Massive Attack , Kalifornia by Mos Def , the single Similak Child by Black Sheep , I Surrender by David Sylvian , Rebel Yellow by Cecil Otter and Blahzay Blahzay's intro to the album Blah Blah Blah.

The title Awakening of the album was covered by the band Gumball on their 1992 EP Wisconsin Hayride .

The playlist

  • Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia Records - KC 31067)

page 1

  1. Meeting Of The Spirits - 6:50
  2. Dawn - 5:15
  3. The Noonward Race - 6:27
  4. A Lotus On Irish Streams - 5:41

Page 2

  1. Vital Transformation - 6:14
  2. The Dance Of Maya - 7:15
  3. You Know You Know - 5:06
  4. Awakening - 3:30

The contributors

The musicians and their instruments

The production staff

  • Don Puluse - sound engineer
  • Ron Coro - album design
  • Anthony Hixon - photography
  • John McLaughlin - producer

The reception

Richard S. Ginell awarded Allmusic five out of five stars and characterized the band's interplay as “a wild, highly energetic, yet thoroughly conceived meeting of virtuosos who, in every respect, established the fusion of jazz and rock, one year after the breakthrough of Miles Davis with Bitches Brew . "Hernan M. Campbell states for Sputnikmusic:" The Inner Mounting Flame is a classic and a style-defining album in the field of jazz fusion ... is a milestone and a template for any future musical interplay in the field Jazz Fusion ventures. ”Jpc.de says:“ What the five top-class soloists… deliver here in terms of inventiveness, vitality, and the highest level of solo skills is top notch. In addition there is a really dreamlike interaction; as if they were born and raised in the same ›spirit‹. ”Looking back on the complete works of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Brian Morton and Richard Cook state that none of the albums“ reached the intensity and sheer beauty of the first record ”. And Walter Kolosky rated All About Jazz for all jazz rock music albums: “In short, that was the best jazz fusion album ever made.” The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide awarded five stars out of five.

On the North American Billboard charts the album reached number 11 for jazz albums and number 89 for pop albums in 1972.

literature

  • J. Swenson: The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. Random House / Rolling Stone, 1985, ISBN 0-394-72643-X .
  • Brian Morton, Richard Cook: The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums. Penguin Books Ltd., Kindle version, 2011, ISBN 978-0-14-195900-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Inner Mounting Flame. discogs.com, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The Inner Mounting Flame. allaboutjazz.com, accessed June 7, 2017 : “The Inner Mounting Flame's ascending and descending distortion-laden mantra-like riffs and unison playing set a standard for jazz-rock that is still in place today. Its Indian influences merged with blues scales and rock rawness set the music world on fire. The musical attack was relentless…. can still blow away first time listeners. The Inner Mounting Flame was recorded before the use of synthesizers, drum machines, and computer enhancement. The sound is loud, raw, and dangerous. Wild abandon meets supreme musicianship on such classic tunes… Melodies and rhythms like had never been heard before. "
  3. ^ The Complete Columbia Albums Collection. discogs.com, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ The Inner Mounting Flame. allmusic.com, accessed June 7, 2017 : "a furious, high-energy, yet rigorously conceived meeting of virtuosos that, for all intents and purposes, defined the fusion of jazz and rock a year after Miles Davis' Bitches Brew breakthrough"
  5. ↑ The Inner Mounting Flame. sputnik.com, accessed June 7, 2017 : "The Inner Mounting Flame is a classic, and a defining album in Jazz Fusion ... is a landmark effort and a template for all future musical acts aspiring to venture into Jazz Fusion."
  6. ↑ The Inner Mounting Flame. jpc.de, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ Brian Morton, Richard Cook: The Penguin Jazz Guide. The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums . Penguin Books Ltd., 2011, ISBN 978-0-14-195900-9 (English, Kindle version): "none ever reached the intensity and sheer beauty of the first record."
  8. ↑ The Inner Mounting Flame. allaboutjazz.com, accessed June 8, 2017 : "In short, this was the greatest jazz-fusion recording ever made."
  9. ↑ J. Swenson (Ed.): The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . Random House, 1985, ISBN 0-394-72643-X , pp. 135 .