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John McLaughlin: Industrial Zen

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Label: Verve Records
Released: 2006.05.22
Time:
 61:30
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.johnmclaughlin.com
Appears with: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucia, Jan Garbarek
Purchase date: 2006.09.12
Price in €: 17,99



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[1] For Jaco (J.McLaughlin) - 5:15
[2] New Blues Old Bruise (J.McLaughlin) - 7:14
[3] Wayne's Way (J.McLaughlin) - 7:06
[4] Just So Only More So (J.McLaughlin) - 9:56
[5] To Bop or Not to Be (J.McLaughlin) - 6:41
[6] Dear Dalai Lama (J.McLaughlin) - 12:28
[7] Senor C.S. (J.McLaughlin) - 7:38
[8] Mother Nature (Mahadevan/J.McLaughlin) - 5:08

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John McLaughlin - Guitar, Producer, Chant, Drum Programming, Synthesizer Programming

Matthew Garrison - Bass Guitar, Engineer
Ada Rovatti - Soprano & Tenor Saxophone
Otmaro Ruíz - Synthesizer, Engineer, Synthesizer Programming
Tony Grey - Bass Guitar
Gary Husband - Drums, Keyboards
Zakir Hussain - Tabla
Eric Johnson - Guitar
Shankar Mahadevan - Vocals
Dennis Chambers - Drums
Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums
Mark Mondesir - Drums

David Channing - Engineer
Richard Mullen - Engineer
Neil Tucker - Engineer
Christoph Stickel - Mastering
Max Crace - Photography
Michel Bocande - Photography
Jesus Martinez - Photography
Karen Miller - Photography
Naoju Nakamura - Photography

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2006 CD Abstract Logix      
2006 CD Verve 0007066
2006 CD C&B 706602

Since the 1970's John Mclaughlin's Long Career Has Always Taken Mysical Turns, from the Mahavishnu Orchestra to Shakti. Here on "Industrial Zen", Mclaughlin Turns his Well Honed Skills to Jazz Fusion. He is Joined by Many Names that Brought Power-house Jazz Fusion to the Frontline During the '90's, Including Bill Evans, Gary Husband, Mark Mondesir, Vinnie Colauta and Dennis Chambers as Well as Texas Guitar Legend Eric Johnson.



McLaughlin develops an intensely contemporary take on fusion here, combining with some fresh musicians while paying tribute to his fellow founders of the idiom. Updating his Mahavishnu Orchestra, the guitarist mixes electric jazz and Indian rhythms and scales with current synth and drum programming, creating a. maze of rapid lines that weave through a minefield of percolating electronics and percussion. Along with tributes to Carlos Santana and Michael Brecker, bassist Hadrien Feraud is prominent on "For Jaco," and Ada Novelli's soprano sax invokes Weather Report-era Shorter on "Wayne's Way," but all the music bears McLaughlin's trademark group virtuosity, the musicians moving fluidly in and out of complex patterns. "To Bop or Not To Be" stands out, flying atop the dense rhythmic dialogue of drummers Zakir Hussain and Dennis Chambers and bassist Matthew Garrison. There's a certain electronic sheen here, but strong personalities - McLaughlin, Feraud, and saxophonist Bill Evans - regularly break through to create intense moments.

Stuart Broomer - Amazon.com



Groove satt - John McLaughlin, einer der entscheidenden Wegbereiter des Jazz Rock in den 70er Jahren, offeriert mit seinem neuen Album Industrial Zen erstklassige Fusionmusik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Beinahe 10 Jahre ist es her - seine letzte Aufnahme in dieser Art hieß The Heart Of Things (1997), vor allem in der Live-Version ein bombastisches Spektakel mit Gary Thomas am Saxofon, Matthew Garrison am Bass und Dennis Chambers am Schlagzeug. Letztere bilden auch diesmal die fundamentale Rhythmusgruppe, im Wechsel mit Mark Mondesir und Vinnie Colaiuta (Schlagzeug) sowie Hadrien Feraud und Tony Grey (Bass). Industrial Zen bietet lupenreinen, modernen Jazzrock, aber auch Kreuzungen mit indischen Stilelementen. Für den authentischen Flair engagierte der Bandleader Sänger Shankar Mahadevan sowie den berühmten Zakir Hussain (Percussion), der bereits 1974 in McLaughlins spektakulärer Weltmusikgruppe Shakti trommelte. Industrial Zen ist aufregend, treibend, dynamisch, hat schwebende Phasen, schöne und rasende Momente, Tempo- und Groovewechsel in allen Facetten. Bill Evans soliert zuverlässig (Saxofon), Komponist und Gitarrist John McLaughlin erstrahlt in gewohnter musikalischer und technischer Virtuosität.

Katharina Lohmann - Amazon.de



The ever peripatetic and ever restless John McLaughlin returns again to the electric jazz field that he once commanded in the early '70s, while never quite landing on the same spot where he left off. A few of the familiar components are still whirring away - the dizzyingly fast and jagged unison themes; the furious interplay with his teammates, whose personnel change on every track. But the landscape has changed again: McLaughlin immerses himself deeply into the high-tech digital scenery, programming loops and backdrops (the mood piece "New Blues Old Bruise" is merely a sleeker impression of what Pink Floyd was doing more than three decades before). Those voices you hear on a few tracks are, of course, not real; they're sampled chorus effects as played through a controller of some sort (which anyone can do at home on a Yamaha keyboard these days). Memories of Shakti - McLaughlin's sporadically recurring Indian experiment -- are hinted at but not recalled in toto as tabla master Zakir Hussain is called upon repeatedly, working himself into a frenzy on the 12-and-a-half-minute tone poem "Dear Dalai Lama." Saxophonist Bill Evans arrives from the 1980s version of Mahavishnu; he knows his way around the McLaughlin mazes of notes as well as anyone, and on the closing passage of "Just So Only More So," he and McLaughlin carry on a touching, conversational dialogue on their instruments. Hadrien Feraud pays effusive, voluble tribute to Jaco Pastorius, not only on the obvious title "For Jaco," but also on "Senor C.S." While Industrial Zen is a reminder to all that McLaughlin remains a formidable electric player in his sixties, the only track that really sticks in the memory is the last, "Mother Nature," with its electronic revolving ostinato and Shankar Mahadevan's keening vocal. Industrial Zen, indeed.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide



"McLaughlin is inspired, creating dense vamps in indecipherable odd-metered rhythms that his coterie of drummers and bassists navigate with grace."

Down Beat (p.92) - 3 stars out of 5



"[S]onically ambitious. INDUSTRIAL ZEN is a complex fusion outing with a rotating cast of virtuoso players."

JazzTimes (pp.68-69)
 

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