【Inner Mounting Flame】高效能户外便携式火焰灯，露营野餐必备照明神器

I first heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra back in college. An old roommate of mine flipped me a copy of Birds of Fire, telling me he hated it but thought it was something I might like (as you can guess, we didn't get along very well). This was not my first experience with McLaughlin. I had heard his work with Miles Davis, and I thought I knew how good he was. But this album showed us a completely different side of this artist. Juxtaposing his work on A Tribute to Jack Johnson, On the Corner, and In A Silent Way, with the music contained on this disc and the rest of his Mahavishnu Orchestra recordings, only serves to underscore just how many styles this man could handle. I obviously backtracked, picking up any and every McLaughlin disc I could find, including his Shakti discs, his solo jazz outings, his work on Lifetime, his work with Paco DeLucia and Al DiMeola, etc. etc.). And I can say with some certainty that this disc is probably the best of them all.The music is a mixture of blues, jazz, heavy metal, and indian classical music. If this sounds like a crazy mishmash, you are right. But these guys make it work, and do it brilliantly. You have to understand, we're talking about an all-star band here: Jan Hammer (keyboards); Jerry Goodman (electric violin); Billy Cobham (drums); Rick Laird (bass) and of course McLaughlin, wielding an axe that is one part Hendrix, one part Django and one part Ravi Shankar. All were absolute musical masters, truly musicians' musicians. And they drive this point home repeatedly, with unison 32nd note runs, intertwining solos that progress towards points of singularity, stops and time-changes and interlocking - at times disparate - themes woven together effortlessly.The sheer energy and power of this album is difficult to put into words. Keep in mind that most of the musical arguments here are very short, repeated statements used as vamps for ensemble improvisations...but this sounds too simplistic. The music actually is far more complex. Suffice to say that you won't hear much of anything that sounds like this elsewhere, with the exception of some King Crimson (I'm thinking specifically of the album "Red", and that came out a few years after this). Highlights are "Dance of Maya", "Noonward Race", "Meeting of the Spirits", "Vital Transformation"...but do yourself a favor and listen to the entire album. The slow pieces (I'm thinking of "Lotus") are beautiful and melodic and provide breathing room for the listener. It isn't in here by accident, it provides a break from the ordeal! And it is just that. This album presents a challenge. But if you are up to the challenge, you will find that this album takes you to pinnacles as few other pieces of music can.An absolute favorite of this fusion nut. And I've heard a lot of fusion. Recommended along with Birds of Fire (1972), Between Nothingness and Eternity (1973), Apocalypse (1974), Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975) and Lost Trident Sessions (from 1973, released in 1999).