Description: HIGHLY ACCLAIMED LP by SHAKTI With JOHN McLAUGHLIN titled "Shakti With John McLaughlin". "For his next act, the decibel champion of electric jazz shocked the world by unplugging and returning to South Indian music before an excitable audience at South Hampton College. Yet the alert John McLaughlin follower will note that beyond the reliance upon South Indian instruments and scales, there are unbroken links to records like My Goal's Beyond and the high-speed electric music that McLaughlin was casting aside at the moment. McLaughlin called his new quintet Shakti, which means "creative intelligence and beauty and power" and the music here has all of that and something else, a ferocious streak inherited from the Mahavishnu days. McLaughlin ignites "Joy" by playing at a blazing speed, his cohorts Lakshminarayana Shankar (violin), Ramnad V. Raghavan and T.H. Vinayakram (mridangam), and Zakir Hussain (tabla) keeping up with the furious unison tempos with great dexterity and discipline, while a reworking of "Lotus Feet" forms a meditative interlude. Side two is taken up by a single, lengthy raga-like track in which McLaughlin combines his rapid-fire Western manner with note-bending techniques clearly emulating a sitar, and the Indians get plenty of dueling room. In its way, this fire-eating acoustic music is just as energizing as the most electrified Mahavishnu flights"--Richard S. Ginell, AllMusic Playlist shown in second photo. Released on Columbia Records (PC 34162) in 1976. The vinyl visually grades NM and the sleeve is EX (light discoloration on right side).Buyer pays $6.00 USPS Media Mail shipping. International postage extra. Seller combines shipping on like items.
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Artist: Shakti with John McLaughlin
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: Columbia
Release Title: Shakti with John McLaughlin
Color: Black
Material: Vinyl
Inlay Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Type: LP
Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Format: Record
Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)
Release Year: 1976
Record Size: 12"
Style: Fusion
Genre: Jazz
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
